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- Washington D.C., in fact, is more rodent-infested than Baltimore.<\/strong> In 2018, the Capital’s 311 received 5,715 complaints or 83.6 per SqMi, clearly more than Baltimore, which had 4,476 rat complaints or 48.5 per SqMi.<\/li>\n
- Chicago<\/strong> maintained the title of “rat capital”, with in total 40,057 rodent complaints filed in 2018. Rodent complaints spiked 13% in Little Village, from 1,094 unique rodent complaints in 2017 to 1,239 in 2018.<\/li>\n
- When analyzing the number of rodent complaints with 1BR median rent as an independent variable, we found a positive correlation<\/strong> between the number of average yearly complaints per SqMi and 1BR median rent in Boston<\/strong>. In other words, the higher the rent, the more rodent complaints one neighborhood received.<\/li>\n
- In Baltimore<\/strong>, on the contrary, the number of rodent complaints is negatively correlated<\/strong> to 1BR median rent. Neighborhoods with lower median rent tend to receive more complaints.<\/li>\n
- In New York, Brooklyn remains to be the borough of rats<\/strong>. However, when looking at complaints per SqMi, Manhattan<\/strong> outpaced all other four boroughs, with shockingly 188.2 rat sightings per SqMi<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
- We also found that seasonality<\/strong> highly affects the number of rodent complaints a city receives. All five cities in our study saw more rodent complaints in summer than in winter. The number tends to reach its peak in July or August and drop to its lowest from December to February.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Rats in Baltimore all of a sudden became the media star this past couple of weeks, thanks to President Trump’s tweets. To a certain degree, the President isn’t wrong – Baltimore has long been fighting the battle against brown rats. It was so bad that the city had to set up the Rat Rubout program to proactively inspect and treat conditions attracting rats. The Rat Rubout crew is now fully staffed and their preventive approach seems to be showing promising results. The number of rodent complaints to Baltimore 311 has been going down since 2015. In 2018, the city received in total 4,495 rodent complaints, 47% fewer than in 2015. As of July 31st, the city has received only 2,240 complaints this year, 21% less compared to the same period in 2018. But, we all know that rats migrate. In the city, rats move from one street to the next, from one neighborhood to another, to search for better locations for their nest. Just when you think that things are improving as you stop seeing brown rats running across the street outside your door, you hear your friend who lives in a different neighborhood complains about how rats have taken over her roof. So where are the rats?<\/p>\n
Is Your Neighborhood Rodent-Infested?<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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The interactive map below indicates the concentration of rodent complaints in Baltimore. Neighborhoods in darker shades have a higher concentration of rat sightings. It is very possible that larger neighborhoods receive more complaints than smaller neighborhoods, and so we normalized the number of rodent complaints by land size. You can click on the polygons to learn more about each neighborhood.<\/p>\n