Street sweeping in Mid-City: City Heights, Normal Heights & Kensington
In 2025 the City of San Diego wrote 15,445 street-sweeping tickets in Mid-City: City Heights, Normal Heights & Kensington, worth about $1,176,922 in fines. Here's where they landed, and when each of those blocks is swept.
City Heights, Normal Heights and Kensington share one planning area in the city's sweeping records. Long residential streets, lots of apartments, and sweeping signs on most of the busy ones.
Most-ticketed streets
Sweeping tickets written on each street in 2025, and the weekdays most of them were written.
| Street | Tickets | Busiest ticket days |
|---|---|---|
| Orange Ave | 1,277 | Thursday & Monday |
| El Cajon Blvd | 955 | Monday & Thursday |
| Meade Ave | 886 | Thursday & Monday |
| 35th St | 753 | Monday & Wednesday |
| 33rd St | 671 | Monday & Wednesday |
| Van Dyke Ave | 668 | Monday & Tuesday |
| 36th St | 620 | Monday & Tuesday |
| 43rd St | 587 | Monday & Tuesday |
| Wightman St | 577 | Thursday & Monday |
| Marlborough Ave | 528 | Monday & Tuesday |
| Wilson Ave | 491 | Monday & Tuesday |
| Swift Ave | 443 | Monday & Tuesday |
The most-ticketed blocks, and when they're swept
Schedules are the city's own record for each block. Signs on the block are always the final word.
| Block | Between | Sweeping schedule | 2025 tickets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pentecost Way 1600–1799 | Federal Blvd | West side: 2nd & 4th Monday (12am-3am) · East side: 1st & 3rd Monday (12am-3am) | 192 |
| Orange Ave 5200–5369 | 52nd St & 54th St Sb On Ra | 8am–11am · North side: Monday · South side: Thursday | 179 |
| Highland Ave 4300–4499 | El Cajon Blvd & Monroe Ave | (10am - 1pm) WS · 3rd Monday (7am - 10am) ES · 3rd Monday | 166 |
| Marlborough Ave 4000–4099 | University Ave & Polk Ave | 10am–1pm · West side: 2nd & 4th Monday · East side: 2nd & 4th Tuesday | 154 |
| Van Dyke Ave 4200–4299 | Orange Ave & El Cajon Blvd | 10am–1pm · West side: 2nd & 4th Monday · East side: 2nd & 4th Tuesday | 149 |
| Van Dyke Ave 4000–4099 | University Ave & Polk Ave | 10am–1pm · West side: 2nd & 4th Monday · East side: 2nd & 4th Tuesday | 144 |
| 42nd St 4000–4099 | University Ave & Polk Ave | 10am–1pm · West side: 2nd & 4th Tuesday · East side: 2nd & 4th Monday | 139 |
| 36th St 4000–4099 | University Ave & Polk Ave | 10am–1pm · West side: 2nd & 4th Tuesday · East side: 2nd & 4th Monday | 138 |
| 35th St 3700–3799 | Landis St & Wightman St | 7am–10am · West side: 2nd & 4th Tuesday · East side: 2nd & 4th Monday | 138 |
| 33rd St 3900–3999 | University Ave & Lincoln Ave | 10am–1pm · West side: 2nd & 4th Tuesday · East side: 2nd & 4th Monday | 135 |
When the sweeper comes
Sweeping hours on the signs here are usually 10am–1pm, 8am–11am, 2am–6am. Many blocks are swept on different days for each side of the street, so the side you parked on tonight matters.
Sweeping skips city holidays and picks up on the next scheduled day. A ticket is $83.50.
Other tickets on these streets
- Within 20 ft of a crosswalk5,839
- Red curb4,344
- Registration tag not displayed4,308
- Sign violation (time limits, no-parking hours)4,304
- Parked in an alley2,971
2025 tickets on Mid-City: City Heights, Normal Heights & Kensington's swept streets, excluding sweeping.
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Other neighborhoods
- North Park 16,665
- Pacific Beach 12,264
- Downtown 8,576
- Ocean Beach 5,907
- Southeastern San Diego 5,447
- Mission Beach 4,265
- Golden Hill 2,657
- Hillcrest & Uptown 1,000
- College Area (SDSU) 253
Where these numbers come from. The City of San Diego's open parking-citation data for 2025 (data.sandiego.gov), matched by block address to the city's GeoSweep street-sweeping map, which also supplies each block's schedule and planning area. "Mid-City: City Heights, Normal Heights & Kensington" is the city's own community planning area. About 92% of sweeping tickets could be matched to a block; the rest are left out, so real totals are slightly higher. The $83.50 fine is the amount on sweeping tickets written in 2026. ParkGuard isn't affiliated with the City of San Diego. Updated 2026-09-27.