NYC Parking & Camera Ticket Data Report

New York City has issued 12–16 million parking and camera tickets per year in recent years. The table shows, for tickets issued each year, how many reached a decided hearing.

Source: NYC Open Data nc67-uf89, grouped by issue year. Coverage 2016–2025; the current partial year is excluded. A small number of rows with malformed dates are excluded. Refreshed 9/8/2026.

All tickets on record, grouped by the county on the summons and merged into the five boroughs.

Source: NYC Open Data nc67-uf89 (150,357,892 tickets across all years on record). Tickets with unknown or out-of-city county codes are omitted from the chart.

Most-issued violation types

The ten violation types with the most tickets on record, with the total fines issued for each.

Source: NYC Open Data nc67-uf89, all years on record. Fine totals sum the original fine_amount per ticket.

Among people who disputed and got a decision, these violation types were dismissed (not guilty) most often. Historical group rates — not a prediction for any individual ticket.

Source: NYC Open Data nc67-uf89, decided hearings across all years on record. Only violation types with at least 5,000 decided hearings are ranked. Refreshed 9/8/2026.

These violation types were dismissed least often at decided hearings — many are camera or owner-liability violations where fewer defenses apply.

Source: NYC Open Data nc67-uf89, decided hearings across all years on record. Only violation types with at least 5,000 decided hearings are ranked. Refreshed 9/8/2026.

Most people never dispute

Of the 16,101,553 tickets issued in 2025, only 2,254,908 (14.0%) have reached a decided hearing so far — yet across all decided hearings on record, 26.2% ended not guilty. The vast majority of tickets are simply paid without anyone checking whether they could be beaten.

Estimate methodology: 13,846,645 tickets issued in 2025 have no decided hearing. If those tickets had been dismissed at the historical all-hearings rate of 26.2%, at the 2025 average fine of $72 per ticket, that fine money would have been waived. This is an illustrative estimate, not a measured amount: tickets that are disputed are not a random sample, some undecided tickets are still pending, and past group rates do not predict individual outcomes.

Embed a live widget

Every violation page has an embeddable card showing its historical dismissal rate. Paste this iframe into any site — it stays up to date automatically and links back here.

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Replace the violation slug in the URL with any violation from our list — each violation page also has a one-click copy button for its own widget.

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