NYC parking ticket statistics: the key numbers, all from public data

• 16,101,553 parking and camera tickets were issued in New York City in 2025 — about $1.15B in fines at face value (an average of $72 per ticket).
• Only 2,254,908 of 2025's tickets (14.0%) have reached a decided hearing so far — the vast majority are simply paid.
• Across 27,187,126 decided hearings on record, 26.2% ended not guilty (dismissed) and another 32.3% in a reduced fine.
• 150,357,892 tickets are on record in total since 2016.
• Manhattan leads all boroughs with 40,842,506 tickets on record.

All figures are historical group statistics — they do not predict or guarantee the outcome of any individual ticket.

The three violation types with the most tickets on record:

• Photo School Zone Speed Violation — 37,993,751 tickets
• No Parking — Street Cleaning — 16,702,560 tickets
• Fail To Display Muni Meter Receipt — 11,318,777 tickets

The full top-10 table with fine totals, plus per-year and per-borough charts, is on the data report. For where tickets are written, see our borough and street pages.

Among violation types with a meaningful sample, [No Parking — Taxi Stand](/violation/no-parking-taxi-stand) has the highest historical dismissal rate — 87.6% of decided hearings ended not guilty — while MTA Camera Violation — Double Parking has the lowest at 4.4%. The full ranking, with a link to each violation's stats page, is in the most-dismissed tickets ranking.

The pattern: violations that hinge on permits, definitions or on-the-ground facts get dismissed often; camera-based owner-liability violations rarely do.

Source: NYC Open Data, “Open Parking and Camera Violations” (dataset nc67-uf89). Ticket and fine counts are grouped by issue year from ticket-level records; fine totals sum the original fine amount before penalties, interest or reductions. Hearing outcomes count only records with a decided status (guilty, guilty with reduction, or not guilty). The current partial year is excluded from annual charts. Full details on the methodology page.

The underlying aggregates are free to download as CSV/JSON or query via the free public API — no key required.

Reuse any figure or chart in articles, posts or research — credit with a link is the entire license. A suggested citation:

NYC Ticket Odds, “NYC Parking & Camera Ticket Data Report” (2026), based on NYC Open Data. https://tickets.zalize.com/data

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