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NYC No-Heat Complaints and Winter Weather

Aggregate statistics from the article “Not just the cold: thirty winters of heat in New York”

No synthetic records. Published or computed tabulations containing no person-level records.

Records
Aggregate statistics
Place
New York City
Version
1.1,
Licence
CC BY 4.0; code MIT
Built for
Not just the cold: thirty winters of heat in New York (version 1.1)

Last winter's record of about 305,000 no-heat complaints was not just the cold: at the pre-pandemic rate its weather would have brought about 206,000; it brought 48% more.

The article's own data file, aggregate statistics cut to what it analyses, and the script that computes every figure in it. Computed from: HPD complaint file, February 2003 to 2 October 2026 (heat seasons 2003-04 to 2025-26); 311 service requests, March 2004 to September 2026; NOAA Central Park, monthly to August 2026 and daily to 1 October 2026; NYC Housing and Vacancy Survey, 1991 to 2023.

Files

FileRowsSizeWhat it holds
data.csv 239 23 KB The aggregate statistics the article's figures are computed from.
analysis.py 78 KB The script that computes every figure in the article (MIT).

Columns

data.csv: The data (31 columns)

table, period, group, complaints, complaints_not_duplicates, all_heat_hot_water, heating_degree_days, renter_households, expected_at_base_rate, ratio_to_expected, ratio_per_renter_household, ratio_not_duplicates, buildings_with_complaints, top10_share_pct, top10_share_without_100_busiest_pct, high_buildings, high_share_pct, repeat_share_of_all_pct, violations, inspected, violation_rate_inspected_pct, no_access_pct, restored_pct, daily_model_ratio, complaints_per_1000_renter_households, winter, share_pct, moe_pct, records, margin, question. The article and its script define each one.

Sources

Licence and credit

Data CC BY 4.0; the script MIT. Records we counted from government files stay under their publishers' terms. Public-use microdata are disclosure-protected records derived from survey responses, published by the issuing agency so that no respondent can be identified; synthetic records are generated by SparkyData and correspond to no real person, household or address. Neither may be used to identify anyone.

Credit it as:

SparkyData (2026). NYC No-Heat Complaints and Winter Weather (version 1.1). Data CC BY 4.0.
https://sparkydata.dev/data/nyc-no-heat-complaints-and-winter-weather

The article gives the charts, the uncertainty of each comparison and a changelog. Corrections and questions: sparkytech.dev@gmail.com, or see corrections.