What you're looking at: An interactive map of every parking ticket in LA. You can browse by date, click individual tickets to see violation type + location, and explore patterns across the city. The screenshot shows a typical Tuesday, about 7,000 tickets in a single day. LA writes roughly 5,000 parking tickets per day.
Explore it yourself: ivankuria.com/la-meter/live
Browse any day from 2020-2025. The Insights page has the full equity analysis, enforcement patterns, revenue breakdowns,and anomaly detection.
How I built it: article
What I found after digging into 10M tickets:
- The city loses money writing tickets. LA spends ~$176M/year on parking enforcement but only collects ~$110M. That's a $65M annual deficit that's been growing since 2016 roughly $315M in cumulative losses. (source)
- Lower-income neighborhoods get hit 3.8x harder. The bottom income quartile receives 301 citations per 1,000 residents vs 80 per 1,000 for the wealthiest quartile. The equity analysis is on the Insights page. Click the Equity tab to see the map.
- Street cleaning is the #1 ticket trap. Street cleaning violations are one of the biggest categories. The top 25 locations generate a disproportionate number of tickets, with some spots showing 80%+ the same violation which suggests signage or infrastructure problems, not bad drivers.
- Enforcement basically stops on weekends. Officers work Monday–Friday. Weekends are a relative parking free-for-all.
by Agitated-Somewhere15
2 Comments
Source: Los Angeles Open Data Portal — [data.lacity.org](http://data.lacity.org), dataset 4f5p-udkv. Every parking citation issued from 2020–2025, accessed via the Socrata SODA API. Equity/income data from the American Community Survey (ACS) 2022 5-Year Estimates. Revenue deficit figures sourced from Crosstown LA and LA City Controller reports
Tool: TypeScript data pipeline (custom), Supabase (Postgres) for storage, MapLibre GL for mapping, Recharts for charts, Next.js for the frontend. All code is original.
This is interesting. Do they have parking meters on many streets? If so, any idea how much the city makes from this or other “legal” parking areas (lots, garages, etc). I would guess the city may get a lot of income from these sources, so even if the parking enforcement loses money, the city makes money by having people also pay for legal parking to avoid tickets.