Last Updated on December 11, 2023 by Lawrence Berezin
It’s time for NYC parking ticket statistics.
You are about to consume a full plate of NYC parking ticket statistics. Meanwhile, I am thunderstruck at the massive quantity of these issued yearly. Most importantly, I am disturbed by the tiny volume of successful parking ticket disputes and appeals. Especially since the balance of rogue versus reasonable judges is tilting in favor of the rogues.
Likewise, I keep getting jolted by these rogue judges’ contempt for the truth. For example, a client got a parking ticket, but the warrior omitted the registration expiration date. Even though the registration stickers were attached to the rear plate of their Massachusetts car. The evidence we submitted was:
- Certified statement from my client.
- Photos of the rear plate showing the sticker and certifying that the sticker was attached on the date and time the ticket was issued
- Proof that Massachusetts required the registration stickers attached to the plate
- A photo of an NYC parking ticket issued a few days earlier where the warrior correctly entered the registration expiration date.
How could one warrior correctly enter the registration expiration date on a parking ticket a few days earlier while a rogue judge finds our client guilty of a subsequent violation?
Shame on you, judge.
Mind-blowing NYC parking ticket stats
The New York City Department of Finance (DOF) must report to the mayor and speaker of the city council and post on its website a report on many aspects of its administration of parking tickets and camera violations by September 30 of each year. This is the first year that DOF reports under Local Law 6. The report covers fiscal year 2022 (FY22) using data available as of September 26, 2022. The data source is STARS, New York City’s Summons Tracking Accounts Receivable System.
Some highlights
- In fiscal year 2022, 15,486,730 parking tickets and camera violations were issued, resulting in $1,083,403,099 in issued violations.
- The most frequently-issued type of violation was school zone speed camera violations, with about 4.7 million issued violations.
- Between October 2020 and September 2021, there were 4,006,011 parking tickets issued in the City of New York, totaling close to $260m in revenue.
The city is owed over $1B in parking and camera-generated fines.
More stats
More highlights of the report include:
- The top five license plate types with parking tickets and camera violations issued in FY22 were passenger (PAS), commercial (COM), taxi (OMT), vanity (SRF), and rental (OMS) plates. Passenger plates had the largest share of issued violations, with 82% of the violations issued, and commercial plates were second, with 10% of the violations issued.
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- $843,599,426 in payments were collected for violations issued in FY22. Of this amount, $773,355,633 (91.67%) was paid in base fine amounts, $69,385,264 (8.22%) was paid in penalty amounts, and $858,529 (0.10%) was paid in interest. Please note that interest only begins to accrue after a violation is entered into judgment.
- From the date a violation was issued, 41% of parking tickets and camera violations issued in FY22 were paid within 30 days, 18.3% were paid between 31 and 60 days, 6.8% were paid between 61 and 90 days, and 33.9% were not paid within 90 days. In total, 66.1% of parking and camera violations were paid within 90 days of issuance.
- In FY22, 1,700,587 parking tickets and camera violations totaling $133 million had hearings. 506,011 (29.76%) violations totaling $36.1 million (27.05%) in fines were dismissed as a result of not-guilty hearing decisions.
- 24,132 violations with liabilities totaling $1.9 million had an appeal hearing after receiving a guilty decision in a hearing. This represented 2.02% of the violations an administrative law judge upheld after a hearing. 4,883 violations (20.2%) totaling $372,460 (19.6%) were dismissed after an appeal hearing.
Number of Parking and Camera Violations Issued
The number of parking tickets and camera violations issued, disaggregated by violation code, for the five license plate types that received the most parking and camera violations during FY22, as well as the combined results for all other license plate types, can be seen in Table 1.
Highlights:
- 15.5 million in combined parking tickets and camera violations were issued in FY22.
- For the top 10 issued violation codes:
- 4.7 million violations (30.34%) were issued for
school zone speed violations, - 1.6 million violations (10.40%) were issued for no parking
for street cleaning violations, - 1.1 million violations (6.90%) were issued for failure to
display a receipt in a parking meter space, - 941,000 violations (6.07%) were issued for no
standing violations, - 825,000 violations (5.33%) were issued for fire hydrant violations,
770,000 violations (4.97%) were issued for no parking violations, - 696,000 violations (4.49%) were issued for bus lane violations,
- 687,000 violations (4.43%) were issued for
not displaying the current registration sticker, - 618,000 violations (3.99%) were issued for not stopping at a red light,
- and 432,000 violations (2.79%) were issued for not displaying
the current inspection sticker.
- 4.7 million violations (30.34%) were issued for
- These top 10 violation codes accounted for 79.71% of all
violations issued in FY22. - For the top five plate types:
- 12.7 million violations (81.98%) were issued to passenger
plates, - 1.6 million violations (10.03%) were given to commercial plates,
- 494,000 violations (3.19%) were given to taxi plates,
- 176,000 violations (1.13%) were issued to vanity plates,
- and 134,000 violations (0.86%) were given to rental plates.
- 12.7 million violations (81.98%) were issued to passenger
Breakdown of parking and camera violations
More Stats
Here’s the Report
Compare FY22 stats with stats for prior years
Commentary
I was thunderstruck by the numbers. Were you thunderstruck? I’m guessing, “Yes.”
This may not be rocket science, but it is a gigantic amount of money for parking tickets. Is there a better way?
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