City of Brackett Mills · Public Works · January 2027

Potholes in 2026, in four charts

2,416

reports from residents and road crews last year. Each chart below draws the same reports a different way, because no single chart answers every question.

Point at any mark, tap it, or reach it with the Tab key, for the exact number.

01Trend

Reports peak in March, after the thaw.

March and April brought 768 reports, nearly a third of the year. September was the quietest month, with 96.

A line, because the question is how something changes over time.

02Comparison

Southfield reports the most potholes.

It also has the most road, 80 of the city's 320 miles. Switch the view to see whose streets are in worse shape.

Bars sorted longest first, because the question is who has more.

03Distribution

Half were fixed within 6 days. One in five took more than 10.

Of 2,352 repairs, 1,876 met the 10-day target. The red bars are the 476 that didn't, and 58 of those waited three weeks or longer.

A histogram, because an average would hide the slow ones. The 64 reports still open on 13 January aren't in it.

04Part of a whole

Road crews find one pothole in eight.

Residents report the other seven, most often through the phone app. So a map of reports is partly a map of who reports.

One bar split four ways, because the parts add up to everything. Lengths are easier to compare than slices of a pie.

    Source: the Public Works request log, 1 January to 31 December 2026. Repeat reports of the same pothole within 7 days count once. Prepared by Paloma Sandoval, analyst, for the Roads Committee meeting on Tuesday 19 January 2027.