Most-reported urban issues in Türkiye: category breakdown of 1,341 citizen reports (Feb–Sep 2026)

<p dir="ltr">Category breakdown of 1,341 citizen reports of urban issues submitted from Türkiye to the Şehrinin Tadı (CitiHero) platform between 14 February 2026 and 24 September 2026.</p><p><br></p><p dir="ltr">KEY FINDINGS</p><p dir="ltr">- One in two reports concerns road or sidewalk surfaces (705 of 1,341; 52.57%).</p><p dir="ltr">- The largest single category is "Roads and Pavements": 519 reports (38.70%), about 2.8 times the second category.</p><p dir="ltr">- "Sidewalks" (186) and "Waste and Cleaning" (180) are too close to rank.</p><p dir="ltr">- 4 of the 25 defined categories were never used (water outage, traffic accident, missing person, emergency help).</p><p><br></p><p dir="ltr">SCOPE</p><p dir="ltr">All reports from Türkiye not removed in moderation.

Each report is counted once and has a single category, chosen by the reporting citizen (the app suggests a category from the photo; the user decides). Reports marked as solved are included; deleted, spam and rejected reports are excluded.</p><p><br></p><p dir="ltr">LIMITATIONS</p><p dir="ltr">- Shows what people report, not how common an issue is in a city. Counts are higher where the platform has more users; not representative of all municipal complaints in Türkiye.</p><p dir="ltr">- "Roads and Pavements" and "Sidewalks" overlap by name; both are shown separately and the combined figure is given in addition.</p><p dir="ltr">- No de-duplication: two people reporting the same pothole create two records.</p><p dir="ltr">- "Solved" status is not verified by municipalities.</p><p><br></p><p dir="ltr">PERSONAL DATA</p><p dir="ltr">None.