Finding 1
Norfolk recorded 280 rodent-related service requests in 2025, or 12.1 per 10,000 residents.
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Norfolk Rodent Report: Complaints, Trends & Hotspots
In 2025, Norfolk recorded 280 rodent-related service requests, equal to approximately 12.1 reports per 10,000 residents. This reflects reported activity, not a measured rodent population.
Key numbers
- Annual reports
- 280
- 2025, complete calendar year
- Reports per 10,000
- 12.1
- 231,013 city residents
- Year-over-year change
- -11.4%
- 2024 to 2025
- Peak reporting month
- July
- 40 reports
Source: MyNorfolk Service Requests · U.S. Census Bureau population estimates · January–December 2025. Definitions and provenance.
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Finding 2
Norfolk's report total fell by 11.4% from 2024 to 2025.
Finding 3
July had the highest monthly total in 2025: 40 reports.
Finding 4
January had the lowest monthly total: 11 reports.
Norfolk: annual reports
Complete calendar years with the same configured reporting category. Historic records can be revised by the city.
Timeframe: 2023–2025. Last updated 2026-10-16. Axes: Complete calendar year; Municipal reports. Underlying sources: MyNorfolk Service Requests · U.S. Census Bureau population estimates. Methodology. Data: RodentExterminator.com US Rodent Index.
View accessible data table: Norfolk: annual reports
| City / year | Reports |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 329 |
| 2024 | 316 |
| 2025 | 280 |
Norfolk: monthly reports, 2025
July had the highest total (40 reports). Reporting season is not necessarily rodent breeding season.
Timeframe: 2025. Last updated 2026-10-16. Axes: Month; Municipal reports. Underlying sources: MyNorfolk Service Requests · U.S. Census Bureau population estimates. Methodology. Data: RodentExterminator.com US Rodent Index.
View accessible data table: Norfolk: monthly reports, 2025
| Month | Reports |
|---|---|
| Jan | 11 |
| Feb | 21 |
| Mar | 17 |
| Apr | 26 |
| May | 26 |
| Jun | 32 |
| Jul | 40 |
| Aug | 29 |
| Sep | 26 |
| Oct | 22 |
| Nov | 17 |
| Dec | 13 |
Geographic reporting patterns
Where reports were recorded in 2025
0 of 280 reports have usable coordinates inside the configured city extent. 280 reports are not plotted. Counts show reporting volume, not relative risk.
No usable coordinate data is available for this year.
Source: MyNorfolk Service Requests · January–December 2025. Definitions and provenance.
Area totals
280 of 280 reports have no usable area. No area population denominator is available.
| Area | Reports |
|---|
ZIP code totals
280 of 280 reports have no usable zip code. No area population denominator is available.
| ZIP code | Reports |
|---|
For property-level prevention, see our rodent exclusion guide. Complaint totals cannot diagnose a specific property.
Recent 12-month trend
294 reports from 2025-09-01 through 2026-08-31, compared with 283 in the preceding 12 months (+3.9%).
The comparison ends at the last complete month in this snapshot, not today. It measures reports only. Reporting changes and later data revisions can affect this comparison.
| Window (end exclusive) | Reports |
|---|---|
| 2025-09-01 to 2026-09-01 | 294 |
| 2024-09-01 to 2025-09-01 | 283 |
Source: MyNorfolk Service Requests. Definitions and provenance.
Methodology and source limits
Reporting systems, categories, response programs and willingness to report differ between cities. Counts are reports, not measured rodent populations.
Counts MyNorfolk requests typed Rat Observed and Potential Rat Harborage, both handled by the Environmental Health Division. The published file has no coordinates, ZIP codes or neighborhoods, so Norfolk has no map or area table.
Norfolk publishes creation times as local clock time.
The per-capita denominator is the Census city population, not metro-area or county population. The 2025 population estimate is 231,013, from Vintage 2025.
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Source: MyNorfolk Service Requests · U.S. Census Bureau population estimates. Definitions and provenance.
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Last retrieved: . Coverage: 2023-01-01 through 2026-08-31. Rankings use complete years only.
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