diff --git a/analytics/urls.py b/analytics/urls.py
index affedf048b7daf..32ea0366fabf1b 100644
--- a/analytics/urls.py
+++ b/analytics/urls.py
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
+from typing import List, Union
+
 from django.conf.urls import include
 from django.urls import path
+from django.urls.resolvers import URLPattern, URLResolver
 
 from analytics.views.installation_activity import get_installation_activity
 from analytics.views.realm_activity import get_realm_activity
@@ -19,7 +22,7 @@
 from analytics.views.user_activity import get_user_activity
 from zerver.lib.rest import rest_path
 
-i18n_urlpatterns = [
+i18n_urlpatterns: List[Union[URLPattern, URLResolver]] = [
     # Server admin (user_profile.is_staff) visible stats pages
     path("activity", get_installation_activity),
     path("activity/support", support, name="support"),
diff --git a/analytics/views/activity_common.py b/analytics/views/activity_common.py
index d752b01dddf9f5..4b11d2f32939d0 100644
--- a/analytics/views/activity_common.py
+++ b/analytics/views/activity_common.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 import pytz
 from django.conf import settings
-from django.db import connection
+from django.db.backends.utils import CursorWrapper
 from django.db.models.query import QuerySet
 from django.template import loader
 from django.urls import reverse
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ def fix_row(row: Any) -> Dict[str, Any]:
     return content
 
 
-def dictfetchall(cursor: connection.cursor) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
+def dictfetchall(cursor: CursorWrapper) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
     "Returns all rows from a cursor as a dict"
     desc = cursor.description
     return [dict(zip((col[0] for col in desc), row)) for row in cursor.fetchall()]
diff --git a/analytics/views/installation_activity.py b/analytics/views/installation_activity.py
index 39dc6436a2a938..5de2abf3866ace 100644
--- a/analytics/views/installation_activity.py
+++ b/analytics/views/installation_activity.py
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ def get_page(
         cursor.close()
 
         def fix_rows(
-            i: int, fixup_func: Union[Callable[[Realm], mark_safe], Callable[[datetime], str]]
+            i: int, fixup_func: Union[Callable[[str], mark_safe], Callable[[datetime], str]]
         ) -> None:
             for row in rows:
                 row[i] = fixup_func(row[i])
diff --git a/analytics/views/realm_activity.py b/analytics/views/realm_activity.py
index e1f53bc6463af1..d229a294d11958 100644
--- a/analytics/views/realm_activity.py
+++ b/analytics/views/realm_activity.py
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ def get_count(user_summary: Dict[str, Dict[str, str]], k: str) -> str:
         else:
             return ""
 
-    def is_recent(val: Optional[datetime]) -> bool:
+    def is_recent(val: datetime) -> bool:
         age = timezone_now() - val
         return age.total_seconds() < 5 * 60
 
diff --git a/zerver/decorator.py b/zerver/decorator.py
index 2407629a27900f..31d21c38c6b2c9 100644
--- a/zerver/decorator.py
+++ b/zerver/decorator.py
@@ -814,14 +814,16 @@ def client_is_exempt_from_rate_limiting(request: HttpRequest) -> bool:
     )
 
 
-def internal_notify_view(is_tornado_view: bool) -> Callable[[ViewFuncT], ViewFuncT]:
+def internal_notify_view(
+    is_tornado_view: bool,
+) -> Callable[[ViewFuncT], Callable[..., HttpResponse]]:
     # The typing here could be improved by using the extended Callable types:
     # https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/additional_features.html#extended-callable-types
     """Used for situations where something running on the Zulip server
     needs to make a request to the (other) Django/Tornado processes running on
     the server."""
 
-    def _wrapped_view_func(view_func: ViewFuncT) -> ViewFuncT:
+    def _wrapped_view_func(view_func: ViewFuncT) -> Callable[..., HttpResponse]:
         @csrf_exempt
         @require_post
         @wraps(view_func)
diff --git a/zerver/lib/actions.py b/zerver/lib/actions.py
index b4cab794b8eb5c..eed095f1618afb 100644
--- a/zerver/lib/actions.py
+++ b/zerver/lib/actions.py
@@ -1986,7 +1986,7 @@ def do_send_messages(
         else:
             user_list = list(user_ids)
 
-        users: List[Dict[str, Union[int, List[str]]]] = []
+        users: List[Dict[str, object]] = []
         for user_id in user_list:
             flags = user_flags.get(user_id, [])
             user_data = dict(id=user_id, flags=flags)
diff --git a/zilencer/management/commands/populate_db.py b/zilencer/management/commands/populate_db.py
index 164de256da52fa..c4df5d2ca7889b 100644
--- a/zilencer/management/commands/populate_db.py
+++ b/zilencer/management/commands/populate_db.py
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ def add_arguments(self, parser: CommandParser) -> None:
             "data set for the backend tests.",
         )
 
-    def handle(self, **options: Any) -> None:
+    def handle(self, *args: Any, **options: Any) -> None:
         if options["percent_huddles"] + options["percent_personals"] > 100:
             self.stderr.write("Error!  More than 100% of messages allocated.\n")
             return