Boundaries

32 datasets

Census Block Groups

For matching and analyzing demographic data collected and compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau & American Community Survey(ACS) to the geography of Census Block Group boundaries within the City of Philadelphia. These boundaries can change every ten years when the decennial census is conducted.

Census Blocks

The basic unit of aggregation published by the US Census Bureau. Population statistics published for redistricting are distributed at the block level. In an urban area, this corresponds to approximately one city block. This block map has been altered to improve accuracy and align with the City of Philadelphia’s street centerline.

Census Tracts

Center City District Boundary (Business Improvement District)

Center City District encompasses 120 blocks and more than 4500 individual properties. The mission is to keep Center City clean, safe, and fun. CCD also makes phyiscal improvements to center city by installing and maintain lighting, signs, banners trees and landscape.

Center City District Police Boundary

The Center City District (CCD) is a business improvement district. The mission is to keep Center City clean, safe, and fun. CCD also makes phyiscal improvements to center city by installing and maintain lighting, signs, banners trees and landscape. This layer displays their policing boundary.

Choice Neighborhoods

The Choice Neighborhoods program is administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). It supports locally driven strategies to address struggling neighborhoods with distressed public or HUD-assisted housing through a comprehensive approach to neighborhood transformation.

City Council Districts

City Council Districts for a variety of different years.

City Plan Boundary

This layer was developed to aid the Surveys Division in planning, modifying and referencing the streets within a city plan of the City of Philadelphia. Examples include: building new streets, modifying existing streets, or observing current streets.

Empowerment Zones

Data includes commercial and industrial zones, i.e. areas with specific federal-granted special amenities (tax incentives, loans/grants) meant to attract and support businesses in blighted areas. Blighted areas are defined as meeting one of seven city mandated criteria, including unsafe, unsanitary and inadequate conditions; economically or socially undesirable land use; and faulty street and lot layout.

Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) Planning Parcels

PWD Parcels with fields added that help categorize parcels by Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) Planning program and standardize ownership or ownership category and summarize impervious cover by surface type.

Philadelphia Basemaps

This is the H3 (https://h3geo.org/) hex grid covering Philadelphia. H3 indexes points and shapes into a hexagonal grid. It is meant to be used as a standardized grid for aggregating data at different resolutions. Grids exist for resolution levels 7 to 10. Any cells that overlap the city limits were included.

Highway Districts

Please note that the dataset below is a snapshot of data captured at one time and does not receive regular updates.

The Highway Districts dataset shows the boundaries of highway districts used for managing maintenance of roads.

Highway Sections

This layer delineates the fifty-six sections of the Highway Division of the City of Philadelphia Streets Department. Sections can be aggregated into districts and subdivided into subsections. A Highway Engineer is responsible for each district. The section layer was developed to aid the Highway Division in the planning, organizing, and maintaining of the streets within each of the six districts. Examples of maintenance include: paving, snow removal, concrete maintenance, and the monitoring/repairing of ditches and potholes.

Leaf Collection Areas

To identify boundaries for City Leaf Collection Services.

Licenses and Inspections Districts

District Boundaries for the Department of Licenses & Inspections are pre 2014. Districts Broad refers to the five districts which contain their own district offices and are a method the department uses to assign and analyze work.

OpenMaps

Explore Philadelphia’s most popular open geographic data in one easy to use mapping tool. This tool was built by the City’s Office of Innovation and Technology’s CityGeo team.

Parks & Recreation Districts

Polygon boundaries of Philadelphia Parks and Recreation (PPR) operational districts as established by PPR’s GIS staff and reviewed, revised, and approved by PPR’s executive staff. These boundaries were revised from boundaries that were in place in prior years.

Philadelphia Basemaps

Basemaps of the Philadelphia area, including from the Department of Records.

Philly Rising Boundaries

The boundaries of the four designated pilot areas included in the Philly Rising program. Philly Rising focuses on areas with chronic quality of life concerns and works with residents and community groups to address neighborhood issues.

PHLmaps

The City of Philadelphia’s ArcGIS Online organization that hosts references to open data releases as feature services and AGO map applications shared with the public. Maintained by the City’s Office of Innovation and Technology’s CityGeo team.

Planning Districts

To illustrate the outlines of the 18 Districts for Philadelphia2035 District Plans.

Police Service Areas

There are currently 65 Police Service Areas (PSA) boundaries in Philadelphia with two to four per District. These boundaries replaced a much smaller boundary, Sectors in 2009. In several Districts, PSA’s split Sector boundaries and therefore a historical comparison would not necessarily be accurate.

Political Ward Divisions

Boundaries of the ward divisions (subunits of wards) in Philadelphia. The first two numbers of a four number division identifier indicates the ward in which the specific division is located.

Political Wards

Boundaries of wards (political units) in the City of Philadelphia. Data was developed by the Office of the City Commissioners. Each ward contains no fewer than 10 and no more than 50 divisions. Ward leaders are elected by their party’s committeepeople. Learn more about Democratic Ward Leaders and Committeepeople : http://www.seventy.org/Resources_Ward_Leaders_and_Committeepeople.aspx

PPR Program Districts

Polygon boundaries of PPR’s program districts as established by PPR’s GIS staff and reviewed, revised, and approved by PPR’s executive staff.

Sanitation Areas

Data includes the boundaries for city sanitation areas (which are aggregations of Sanitation Districts).

Sanitation Districts

Boundaries of city sanitation districts. Collection areas are subdivisions of districts. Districts are aggregated up to Sanitation Areas.

Special Vending Districts

Districts with special sidewalk vending rules pursuant to Sections 9-204 (Sidewalk Vendors in Center City) and 9-206 (Sidewalk Vendors in Neighborhood Business Districts) of The Philadelphia Code.

Traffic Districts

This layer was developed to aid the Traffic Division in planning, organizing, and maintaining traffic flow within the City of Philadelphia. Examples include: the maintenance and placing of stop signs and signals and monitoring street travel direction.

Vending Regulations

This dataset shows areas where vending activity is regulated by Chapter 9, Sections 203 (Street Vendors), 204 (Sidewalk Vendors in Center City), 205 (Sidewalk Sales), and 206 (Sidewalk Vendors in Neighborhood Business Districts) of the Philadelphia Code. These regulations include information regarding the locations of vending prohibitions, exceptions to vending prohibitions, and neighborhood business districts (AKA special vending districts). The polygons in this dataset show the locations of vending regulations and relevant details like code references, links to the code reference, and regulation types (prohibitions, exceptions, or special vending districts). This dataset is updated on an as needed basis as governing legislation is passed.

Zip Codes

The purpose of this dataset is to represent the Zip Code areas for the City of Philadelphia. The edges of Zip Codes are slightly modified for logical and cartographic purposes.

Zoning Base Districts

Polygon boundaries of Zoning Base Districts based on existing City zoning\ districts with revised codes applied per enactment of the new Zoning Code of December\ 2011, made effective August 22, 2012. District boundaries are unchanged from the previous\ zoning with the exception of certain CMX2 / CMX2.5 splits.