Published May 19, 2026 by Clear Plates Research

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The NYC Fleet Violation Index: Parking Ticket & Speed Camera Revenue by Year

NYC issued $1.09B in parking ticket and camera violation fines in FY2024, according to the NYC Department of Finance Local Law 6 annual report. Below are the year-by-year figures, the gap between fines assessed and payments collected, and the per-violation cost for commercial fleets and Amazon DSPs operating in the five boroughs.

$1.09B

FY2024 fines issued

$255M

CY2022 speed camera fines

16.1M

FY2024 tickets issued

$84

avg fine per commercial violation

How many parking tickets does NYC issue per year?

NYC's enforcement volume has shifted toward automated camera tickets, and that shift is accelerating.

NYC issued 16.1M parking tickets and camera violations in FY2024, the most recent fiscal year published in the NYC Department of Finance Local Law 6 annual report. That works out to roughly 44,000 violations issued every day of the fiscal year, on plates that are overwhelmingly registered to people and businesses that operate in the five boroughs.

The three-year arc tells the more useful story. FY2022 ran 15.5M, FY2023 jumped to 17.2M, and FY2024 settled at 16.1M. The peak was driven by the citywide expansion of speed and bus lane cameras, and the slight pullback in FY2024 still leaves the city issuing more than 600,000 tickets a year above the FY2022 baseline. Camera-issued violations are the structural driver, not curbside parking discipline.

For a commercial fleet, this volume sets the backdrop. A box truck or delivery van moving through dense enforcement corridors is exposed to the entire firehose, and unresolved tickets escalate in penalty before anyone internally notices them. The fiscal year basis here matters: these are total issued counts from the city books, not a live snapshot of unpaid items.

Fiscal yearParking tickets & camera violations issued
FY202215,486,730 (15.5M)
FY202317,245,498 (17.2M)
FY202416,092,421 (16.1M)

How much revenue does NYC make from parking tickets each year?

Fine revenue is the headline number, but the gap between assessed and collected is what actually shows up on the city books.

NYC issued $1.09B in parking ticket and camera violation fines in FY2024, per the same NYC Department of Finance Local Law 6 report. That is the dollar amount assessed against drivers and fleets. The dollar amount the city actually collected against violations issued in the same fiscal year was lower at $894.9M.

That gap between assessed and collected is the part fleets should read closely. The city assesses far more than it ultimately collects, and the difference is heavily concentrated in penalty escalation on tickets that sat unresolved. For a fleet, every dollar of that escalation is avoidable cost: a ticket caught and paid inside the original response window never grows past the base figure.

The year-over-year shape matters. Fines issued ran $1.08B in FY2022, peaked at $1.16B in FY2023, and settled at $1.09B in FY2024. Payments collected tracked the same arc, from $843.6M to $956.5M to $894.9M. The trend line is not monotonic up, but the assessed-versus-collected gap is durable across all three years, which means escalation cost is a structural feature of the system rather than a one-off.

Fiscal yearFines issued (assessed)Payments collectedYoY change (Assessed)
FY2022$1.08B$843.6M–
FY2023$1.16B$956.5M+$77M (+7.1%)
FY2024$1.09B$894.9M-$72M (-6.2%)

NYC speed camera fines revenue (FY2024 and annual report figures)

Speed camera totals are reported on a calendar-year basis, which changes how they map to a fiscal-year fleet budget.

NYC collected $255M in speed camera fines in calendar year 2022, per the NYC Comptroller audit of the DOT Speed Camera Program. The same audit states the city issued 5.7M Notices of Liability that year, the latest publicly audited speed camera figures available and the reason there is no clean FY2024 speed camera dollar figure to quote despite how the question is commonly phrased in search.

Year over year, speed camera fines collected rose from $243.9M in 2021 to $255M in 2022, against an NOL count that climbed from 4.4M to 5.7M. The volume grew faster than the dollars because the average speed camera fine is $50 and does not vary with severity. Camera enforcement is now a citywide, 24/7 system, not a school-hours program, and the issuance growth above reflects that operational change rather than a change in driver behavior.

Because camera violations attach to the plate regardless of who was driving, fleet and DSP operators carry the liability unless they reconcile every notice against their own records. A delivery fleet moving through school zones at scale absorbs a meaningful share of those millions of NOLs every year.

Calendar yearSpeed camera fines collectedNotices of Liability issued
2021$243.9M4.4M
2022$255M5.7M

NYC Open Data speed camera violations: what the public record shows

Why every figure on this page comes from official NYC reports, not the live Open Data feed.

The authoritative totals on this page come from official NYC reports, not the live Open Data feed. Parking and camera figures come from the NYC Department of Finance Local Law 6 annual reports, and speed camera figures come from the NYC Comptroller audit of the DOT Speed Camera Program.

The NYC Open Data "Open Parking and Camera Violations" dataset only holds open, unresolved items, and resolved tickets drop out of it over time. A year-over-year count pulled from that live feed understates true issuance and is not a valid measure of total volume. Every volume and revenue figure above is sourced instead from the Department of Finance Local Law 6 reports, which publish exact total issued counts and dollar amounts per fiscal year, and from the NYC Comptroller speed camera audit, which states exact fines collected and Notices of Liability issued per calendar year. No figure on this page is estimated, interpolated, or pulled from the live unresolved dataset.

What does this cost a commercial fleet or DSP?

Translating the city-level aggregates into a per-vehicle figure operators can actually plan around.

In FY2024, the average fine per commercial plate violation issued in NYC was $84, derived from the $119.9M in commercial plate fines spread across 1.42M commercial plate violations the NYC Department of Finance Local Law 6 report reported for the year.

The table below scales that single public figure to common fleet sizes. The only base number used is the FY2024 average fine per commercial plate violation, $84 (raw value 84). The formula for every row is fleet size multiplied by 84. This is an illustrative per-violation figure, not a per-vehicle annual total: the public data does not publish an average number of violations per commercial vehicle, so a vehicle that receives more than one violation in a year would cost proportionally more.

The city-level aggregates stop being abstract once they are divided down to the plate. A delivery fleet running dozens or hundreds of commercial-plated vehicles through the densest enforcement corridors in the country is not exposed to a rounding error, it is exposed to a recurring operating cost. The single lever a fleet controls is speed of resolution: a violation caught and paid inside the original window stays at the base figure modeled below, while the same violation left unmonitored escalates well beyond it.

Fleet size (commercial vehicles)FormulaCost of one average violation per vehicle
10 vehicles10 × $84$840
50 vehicles50 × $84$4,200
150 vehicles150 × $84$12,600

Derivation: $119,877,064 in commercial plate fines issued divided by 1,422,570 commercial plate violations issued equals $84.27 per violation, rounded down to $84. Basis: Derived strictly from the two commercial plate aggregates above (commercialPlateFinesFY2024 / commercialPlateViolationsFY2024). Data retrieved 2026-05-19.

When unpaid fleet tickets become boots, tows, and judgments

The cost curve is not linear: unresolved tickets compound into judgments and put revenue-generating vehicles off the road.

A vehicle becomes eligible to be booted or towed once it carries $350 or more in unpaid parking and camera judgment debt, under the NYC Department of Finance parking judgment and booting rules. That threshold is reached faster than most fleet operators expect, because a parking or camera ticket that goes unanswered and unpaid past its response deadline is entered as a default judgment roughly 100 days after issuance, at which point the debt is final and additional collection costs attach.

For a fleet running many commercial-plated vehicles, it takes only a handful of stale tickets on a single plate to cross the boot threshold, and the enforcement is tied to the plate regardless of which driver was behind the wheel. A ticket resolved inside its window costs the base amount; the same ticket ignored becomes a judgment, then a booting and towing liability that can take a revenue-generating vehicle off the road entirely. We cover how penalties grow stage by stage in our guide to NYC parking ticket penalty escalation, and what to do once a vehicle is already boot or tow eligible in our NYC boot and tow guide for fleets.

Methodology and sources

A consolidated bibliography of every public source used on this page, with the period basis for each figure.

Every figure on this page traces to a named public source. Parking and camera volume and revenue come from the NYC Department of Finance Local Law 6 annual reports and are stated on a fiscal-year basis. Speed camera fines collected and Notices of Liability come from the NYC Comptroller audit of the DOT speed camera program and are stated on a calendar-year basis, which is why those rows are not labeled FY2024. The live NYC Open Data "Open Parking and Camera Violations" dataset is deliberately not used for any total on this page, because it holds only open, unresolved items and resolved tickets drop out of it over time, which would understate true issuance. The fleet exposure figures are derived arithmetic from the same Department of Finance report already cited for the parking numbers, with the formula shown next to each table.

NYC Department of Finance: Annual Report of NYC Parking Tickets and Camera Violations, FY2022 (Local Law 6 report)NYC Department of Finance: Annual Report of NYC Parking Tickets and Camera Violations, FY2023 (Local Law 6 report)NYC Department of Finance: Annual Report of NYC Parking Tickets and Camera Violations, FY2024 (Local Law 6 report)NYC Comptroller: Audit Report on the NYC DOT Speed Camera Program (Jan 22, 2024), fines collected in calendar year 2021 (not a fiscal year figure)

Data retrieved 2026-05-19.

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