SFMTA has issued 23.9 million citations worth $2.02 billion in fines since 2008. Most plates collect a ticket or two. These twenty collected six figures each — a leaderboard nobody wanted to top, built from the city's open citation data.
$245,428 in fines
A commercial plate that racked up 2,837 citations between December 2008 and December 2018 — roughly one ticket every 31 hours for a decade. 94% were written in the Financial District, mostly for parking in prohibited zones and expired downtown meters.
Where do you stack up? Run your plate to see your record and overall rank among 5.7 million ticketed plates — or line up your friends' plates, comma-separated, and settle once and for all who owes the city most.
Citation revenue held remarkably steady around $110M a year for over a decade, collapsed when enforcement paused in 2020, then hit an all-time high of $180M in 2025 after fine increases and stepped-up enforcement.