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Baltimore’s rat hot spots 2015

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Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced a $10 million plan Monday to provide every house in Baltimore with heavy duty trash cans to help control the city’s rat population and decrease sanitation worker injuries. Read the full article.

Map: Number of 311 service requests for rat control by neighborhood

In the past year, there have been at least 73,000 requests to 311 for rat control. Click and drag on the map to explore.

By Neighborhood

The following lists show the Baltimore neighborhoods visited most and least often by City of Baltimore rat control in the past year.

Most Visits


  1. Belair-Edison (3138 visits)
  2. Broadway East (2755)
  3. Coldstream Homestead Montebello (2462)
  4. Canton (1424)
  5. Sandtown-Winchester (1417)
  6. Oliver (1281)
  7. Berea (1264)
  8. Baltimore-Linwood (1132)
  9. Mcelderry Park (1108)
  10. Washington Village (1089)
  11. Edmondson Village (1068)
  12. Ednor Gardens-Lakeside (1034)
  13. Central Park Heights (1020)
  14. Hampden (998)
  15. East Baltimore Midway (930)

Least Visits


  1. Middle Branch/Reedbird Parks (1 visit)
  2. North Roland Park/Poplar Hill (1)
  3. Armistead Gardens (2)
  4. Loyola/Notre Dame (2)
  5. Pleasant View Gardens (2)
  6. Ten Hills (2)
  7. Christopher (3)
  8. Lake Evesham (3)
  9. Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park (4)
  10. Johns Hopkins Homewood (4)
  11. Keswick (4)
  12. Patterson Park (4)
  13. Radnor-Winston (5)
  14. Orangeville (7)
  15. Ridgely’s Delight (7)

Source: Open Baltimore