Albany's Parking Ticket Revenue and Locations

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The Parking ticket data contains a lot of fields, such as:

• Date and time
• Type of violation no-  stopping, no parking, parked in front of a fire hydrant, etc
• Location - latitude and longitude
• Fine amount
• Fine status - paid, unpaid, dismissed, etc
• Notes - Information about the ticket, including the context of some emails
• and more

The file contained parking ticket information from 2015 through November 2025

We approached analyzing parking ticket data at a high level, and made sure to include some data that is relevant to the current conversation about Albany’s financial woes. So first, we looked at the total number of tickets issued and the amount of fines paid to the city.

Between 2015 and 2018, Albany issued ~72,500 tickets per year. This total drastically increased from 2019 to 2022, reaching over 92,000 tickets per year.  The total number of tickets has declined in more recent years, but remains elevated relative to the 2015-2018 time frame. Even during the heart of the pandemic (2020), approximately 4,000 more tickets were issued. 

Based on this info, our simple hypothesis was that with the increase in the number of tickets issued, we’d expect the total amount paid to increase. This was quickly proven true, and represented by the blue bar graph in the figure below. In that same 2015-2018 time frame, the City collected approximately $3.5 million from parking tickets. Collected revenue peaked in 2022 to approximately $4.5 million, and remained above $4.1 million for 2023 and 2024. 

Note: the total revenue and number of tickets issued for 2025 only reflect what has been issued and paid through Nov. 5th, 2025.

Next, we examined the types of tickets issued by Albany each year.  

• No Parking (~27-34,000 per year)
• Expired Meter (~20,000 per year)
• No Stopping (~10,000 per year)
• Permit Parking (6-8,000 per year). 

There is also information on tickets issued for snow emergency violations, parking in crosswalks / in front of fire hydrants/ on the curb. However, the total number of those tickets was low, and we’re deferring to a later time any review of trends in when and where those tickets were issued.

We’re still examining the parking ticket data and are hoping to share more information in the future. Let us know what pieces of data you’re interested in seeing! 

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