Real Estate / Land Records

Data includes aerial photography of the City of Philadelphia.

The Division of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) provides funding to developers to build and maintain affordable housing units throughout the city. This dataset includes all DHCD-funded housing projects completed since 1994 for which there is data.

The City of Philadelphia is launching Boost Your Business, a fund for equitable business growth. Businesses owned by people of color face unique barriers in accessing resources and opportunities, which was only worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Boost Your Business will provide funding to help diverse entrepreneurs in Philadelphia scale their businesses.

Inventory of building demolitions occurring within the City of Philadelphia. This includes both demolitions performed by private owners/contractors and by the Department of Licenses and Inspections due to dangerous building conditions.

Updated daily.

Planimetric Coverage containing the delineation of buildings or related structure outlines that represent the footprints of buildings within the City of Philadelphia.

This data set provides geographic boundaries and basic information for Philadelphia’s 15 Business Improvement Districts (BID) as well the University City District and Sports Complex District. More information available here This data set may be helpful to property owners, property purchasers or title companies seeking to know if a property exists within a BID. Note that this dataset may include errors or outdated information. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that interested parties contact BID organizations directly with inquiries.

Comprehensive access to American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates for Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. The ACS is the premier source for detailed demographic, social, economic, and housing data about communities across the United States.

This dataset provides API access to 20,000+ variables covering topics including:

• Demographics (age, race, ethnicity, citizenship)
• Economics (income, poverty, employment, industry, occupation)
• Housing (tenure, value, costs, conditions, utilities)
• Education (enrollment, attainment)
• Transportation (commute mode, travel time, vehicle availability)
• Health Insurance coverage
• Veterans and military service
• Disability status
• Language spoken at home
• Ancestry and place of birth
• Computer and internet access

The ACS 5-Year Estimates combine 5 years of survey data to provide reliable estimates for small geographic areas. Data is updated annually (typically released in December). Census geography identifiers can be joined with Philadelphia boundary files for spatial analysis.

Available Geography Levels:

• County (Philadelphia County aggregate)
• Census Tract (408 tracts)
• Block Group (1,816 block groups)
• County Subdivision

Key Variable Examples:

• B01003_001E: Total Population
• B19013_001E: Median Household Income
• B17001_002E: Population Below Poverty Level
• B15003_022E: Bachelor’s Degree or Higher
• B25077_001E: Median Home Value
• B25064_001E: Median Gross Rent
• B08301: Means of Transportation to Work (multiple variables)
• B03002: Hispanic/Latino Origin by Race (multiple variables)
• B27001: Health Insurance Coverage (multiple variables)

The API examples below use the 2024 (2020-2024) release. To access other years, replace “2024” in the URL with the desired year (available annually from 2009 to 2024).

For complete variable lists and definitions, see the Census Variable Search Tool below. No API key required for basic use, but free registration provides higher rate limits.

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.

Properties that have applied and been approved as suitable for renting.

Metadata: Review and/or download a 3-page metadata document (.pdf format) from the CCWRA web site.



Description from CCWRA (June 2015): This GIS file is a subset of the Census 2010 Urbanized Area, limited to the boundaries of Chester County, PA. The original data contained Urban Clusters, which were removed. The data was given a projected coordinate system, but no other changes have been made to the original source data. The source data was downloaded in May 2015 from the following website: http://www.census.gov/geo/reference/ua/urban-rural-2010.html 



Description from US Census Bureau:The TIGER/Line Files are shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) that are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line File is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. 




After each decennial census, the Census Bureau delineates urban areas that represent densely developed territory, encompassing residential, commercial, and other nonresidential urban land uses. In general, this territory consists of areas of high population density and urban land use resulting in a representation of the "urban footprint." There are two types of urban areas: urbanized areas (UAs) that contain 50,000 or more people and urban clusters (UCs) that contain at least 2,500 people, but fewer than 50,000 people (except in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam which each contain urban clusters with populations greater than 50,000). Each urban area is identified by a 5-character numeric census code that may contain leading zeroes.





How should this data set be cited? 
  U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, 2015. 

This is an update of existing features originally captured in 2013 using 2010 orthoimagery. The minimum size for building features is 200 square feet.

Description

The PARCELS layer depicts mapped land parcels or real estate properties within Chester County. This data contains geometric representations capturing the general size, shape and location for all of the real estate properties, which can be mapped, on the County's land surface. 

Contacts

Tim Cassel, County of Chester

Tcassel@chesco.org, 610-344-5441, 313 W. Market St Suite 5302 West Chester, PA  19380

Resource

Update frequency of dataset: Weekly

Last Update Date: August 2023

Accuracy of attribute: Attributes are correct as per County of Chester Assessment Department

Positional accuracy of dataset:

The PARCELS layer (and derived copies PARCEL_PUBLISH and PRCL_POLY) was originally created through a conversion process of digitizing hand drawn tax maps into digital form and orientating the tax map sheets and parcels to the features depicted in the 1993 orthophotos. These parcel polygon features were adjusted based on aerial photography dated April 7, 1993, and road centerlines, right-of-way lines and other physical features generated from the same photography. While the imagery has a pixel resolution of 1.5 square feet, a positional accuracy of +/- 5 feet and is designed for use at a scale of 1 inch = 200 feet, the resulting PARCELS horizontal accuracy varies from reasonably accurate in the best cases to less accurate in the worst cases. Subsequent and current map update processes include metes and bounds entry from subdivision and deed information, as well as property corner locations based on GPS points and the utilization of our newest imagery datasets. While the update processes include more accurate methods, the resultant overall accuracy is still dependent on the surrounding parcel fabric's varied accuracy. Planimetric coordinates are based on the Pennsylvania State Plane Coordinate System South Zone and North American Datum 1983

Spatial Reference

Type: Projected

Geographic Coordinate Reference: GCS North America 1983

Projected Coordinate System: NAD 1983 State Plane Pennsylvania South

Linear Unit: US Survey Feet

Note: There is a difference between land use code and zoning. Land management occurs via a land use designation which determines the land use code. This designation specifies how land and resources within it is managed. Zoning designations define how a property can be developed and used and it is controlled by each township/borough. See below for list of codes.

Field Description

UPI - Uniform Parcel Identification Number, a unique value given to each parcel

PIN_MAP - A Tie-back parcel identification number used to link UPI values to the parcel on which they reside

PIN_COMMON - A variation of UPI which adds and E for Exempt, U for Utility or T for Trailer

PIN_ASMNT - A long form of the UPI number used for assessment purposes

CODE (see below for list of codes)

MULTI_POLY - Number listing for each parcel of a Multi-Poly parcel.  (Example 1 of 20, 2 of 20)

POLY_PER_PARCEL - Number of polygons that make up a parcel (0 indicates it is just one polygon)

SQFT_PLAN_TOT - The square footage of a parcel (taken from the recorded plan or deed)

ACRE_PLAN_TOT - The acreage of a parcel (taken from the recorded plan or deed)

ACRE_PLAN_POLY - The acreage of the polygon depicting the parcel, derived by mapping software

XCOORD - X coordinate of the centroid of the polygon

YCOORD - Y coordinate of the centroid of the polygon

LOC_ADDRESS - The location address for a parcel

MUNI - The municipality the parcel resides in

ST_NUM - Street Number of the Situs Address

NUM_SUF - Street Number Suffix of the Situs Address

DIR - Street directional of the Situs Address (N, E, S, W)

ST_NAME - Street Name of the Situs Address

ST_TYPE - Street thorough fair type of the Situs Address

UNIT - Unit Type (see codes below)

UNIT_N - Unit number

AD_ROLE - Situs Address Functional Role (see below for list of codes)

NO_ADDR_CODE - No longer used

TILE_1200 - Outdated reference system, no longer used

TILE_2400 - Outdated reference system, no longer used

SUBDIV_NUMBER - Number assigned by Recorder of Deeds to a recorded document

LOT - Lot number given to parcel on the recorded plan

LAND_DEV_ID - Number assigned by Planning Commission for their tracking purposes

CREATE_DATE - Date the parcel was mapped into the inactive parcel layer

ACTIVE_DATE - Date the parcel was added to the active parcel layer

OWN1 - Owner of record

OWN2 - Owner of record if more than one

ADDR1 - Component of the mailing address on record

ADDR2 - Component of the mailing address on record

ADDR3 - Component of the mailing address on record

ZIP1 - Zipcode of mailing address on record

TAXYR - For Assessment purposes

JURIS - Municipality Number where parcel is taxed

BOOK - The book number of the recorded deed

PAGE - The page number of the recorded deed

DEED_REC_DATE - Date the latest deed was recorded

LEGAL1 - Description of property location according to the deed

LEGAL2 - Description of the taxable property and buildings according to the deed

LUC - Landuse code assigned by assessment office.  (unrelated to municipal zoning of a parcel) ((see below for list of codes))

CLASS - General landuse classification assigned by assessment office (see below for list of codes)

LOT_ASSESS - Assessed value of the land

PROP_ASSESS - Assessed value of the structures

TOT_ASSESS - Assessed value of the combination of land and structures

FMV319 - Fair Market Value if not under 319

FMV515 - Fair Market Value if not under 515

LAST_SALE_PRICE - Last recorded sale price

ASMNT_DATE - For Assessment Department use only

SCHDIST - The school district within which the parcel resides (see below for list of codes)

SUBDIV_NAME - Name of the recorded plan

PLAN_NUM - Number assigned by the Planning Commission for their tracking purposes

MODIFY_DATE - Last edit date of the parcel

Data Dictionary

Code

1000= Parcel

1010= Condominium (mother or host parcel)

1011= Common Law Condo

1020= Hydrography

1031= Paper ROW

1033= Land polygon with a ROW

1034= Land dedicated to an existing ROW

1035=- Private Road

1040= Open Space

1042= Common Area

1043= Open Space owned by Homeowners Association

1710= Parcel Assessed in Lancaster County but located in Chester County

1711= Parcel Assessed in Berks County but located in Chester County

1712= Parcel Assessed in Montgomery County but located in Chester County

1713= Parcel Assessed in Delaware County but located in Chester County

1714= Parcel Assessed in New Castle County but located in Chester County

1715= Parcel Assessed in Cecil County but located in Chester County

2000= Parcel bisected by a ROW (Duplicate Pin)

2040= Open Space (Duplicate Pin)

2042= Common Area (Duplicate Pin)

2043= Open Space owned by Homeowners Association

2010= Condominium (Duplicate Pin)

LUC

C-10= Banks, Savings&Loan

C-20= Gas Station

C-30= Restaurants, Stores (Retail)

C-35= Condominium Stores

C-40= Motels, Hotels

C-41= Nursing Homes

C-50= Shopping Centers

C-60= Office Bldgs/Laboratory/Library

C-65= Office Condo

C-67= Office Condo Common Law

C-70= Commercial Garage/Shop/Car Dealers

C-80= Warehouse

C-81= Storage Tanks

C-90= Entertainment, Recreation

C-91= Recreation (Private)

C-92= Mobile Home Parks (4+)

C-93= Burial Grounds/Mausoleum

C-94= Airports

C-95= Private Schools

C-96= Commercial OBY only

E-10= Churches

E-11= Cemetaries

E-12= Service Connected

E-13= Chester County Property

E-20= Schools

E-30= Public Utilities

E-40= Railroads

E-50= Hospitals, etc

E-60= State

E-61= State Parks

E-62= Federal

E-63= Federal

E-70= Local Government (Townships &  Boroughs)

E-71= Local Government Parks

E-80= Non-Profit Organizations

E-90= Fire Companies

F-10= Farm 10-19.99 Acres

F-20= Farm 20-79.99 Acres

F-40= Farm 80 Acres and over

M-10= Heavy Industrial

M-20= Light Industrial

M-25= Light Industrial Condominium

M-30= Quarry/Landfill

N-01= Not assessed in Chester County

R-10= Single Family/Cabin

R-20= Two Family

R-30= Multi Family/Dorms/Single

R-40= Apartments (4-19 Units)

R-50= Codominium

R-55= Town House (Common Law Condo)

R-60= Dwelling W/Comm Use Primary R

R-61= Dwelling W/Comm Use Primary C

R-70= Mobile Home

R-80= Barns, Stables, Pools, Misc Bldg

R-90= Apartment Complex (20 or more units)

R-95= Common Elements (Not Open Space)

T-10= Trailers and Mobile Homes

U-03= Public Utilities

U-04= Railroads

V-10= Vacant Land Residential

V-11= Vacant Land Commercial

V-12= Open Space

V-13= Road Beds, Right of Way, Access Way

V-14= Basins, Drainage Control

V-35= Condo Store/Vacant Common Element

V-50= Condo/Vacant Common Element

V-55= Condo Common Law/Common Area

V-65= Condo Office/Vacant Common Element

V-67= Condo Common Law Office/Common Area

Class

A= Apartment

C= Commercial

E= Exempt

F= Farm

I= Industrial

R= Residential

U= Utility

 SchDist

1= Avon Grove

2= Coatesville

3= Downingtown

4= Kennett Consolidated

5= Octorara

6= Owen J. Roberts

7= Oxford

8= Phoenixville

9= Twin Valley

10= Unionville Chaddsford

11= West Chester

12= Great Valley

13= Tredyffrin-Easttown

14= Springford

Proposed land development activity submitted to the County Planning Commission for review as required by the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act 247.

Each point refers to a single location address. Parcels with multiple addresses will have multiple points.    This is an updated layer with a new schema.

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.

An inventory of buildings and other fixed assets owned, leased, or operated by the City of Philadelphia including buildings, structures, and properties (not including surplus properties). Also known as the Master Facilities Database.

The application below was a point-in-time analysis and has been archived. It will not receive further updates, but remains available for reference. This is a web application displaying properties in 2015 owned by the City, PHDC/RDA or other public entities. If you’re instead looking for an inventory of buildings and other fixed assets owned, leased, or operated by the City, please see the [City Facilities dataset]([https://www.opendataphilly.org/datasets/litter-index] (https://opendataphilly.org/datasets/city-facilities-master-facilities-database/).

This dataset includes checks and ACH (direct deposit) payments made by the City during the fiscal year, which runs from July 1st 2016 through June 31st 2017.

Please see full metadata to learn more detail about important notes to this data, such as:

• This data cannot be compared with other financial and accounting reports released by the City.
• Legal and security-sensitive data has been rolled up to the aggregate dataset.
• This dataset does not include salary and benefits data or payments the City makes to fund the operations of the First Judicial District.
• Vendors should use the vendor payment website, not this dataset, to track payments.

This layer is dissolved and queried from PWD’s internal sewer shed feature class named modelsheds. The polygons in this layer are catchments for sanitary, storm and/or combined sewer flows. These catchments are used in the hydraulic models. Data DevelopmentBase Modelsheds are maintained regularly and delineate waste water and stormwater and combined sewer catchments in Philadelphia. Storm water and waste water pipe flow are analyzed to delineate the shed boundaries.

These are commercial corridors, centers, districts, and projects that provide consumer-oriented goods and services, including retail, food and beverage, and personal, professional, and business services.

Commercial Real Estate Acquisition Loan Program (CREAL) is a City of Philadelphia program administered through a CDFI, currently the Women’s Opportunities Resource Center (WORC). This program is designed to assist undercapitalized business owners in securing loans to purchase commercial spaces for their operations.

Polygon description of use rights for ingress/egress, driveways, alleyways, utilities, drainage and subsurface areas.

Department of Records (DOR) Boundaries of real estate property parcels derived from legal recorded deed documents.

Dates and locations of when lots were cleaned (removing weeds, debris, etc.) through the City of Philadelphia’s Community Life Improvement Program.

Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) data clipped to Philadelphia. Please note, FEMA is moving away from solely using ‘100-year’ and ‘500-year’ flood terminology by emphasizing the more accurate and technical phrase ‘1-percent annual chance flood’ for a 100-year flood and ‘0.2-percent annual chance flood’ for a 500-year flood, focusing on the probability of occurrence rather than the time frame implied by the ‘year’ designation.

Data includes historic maps of the City of Philadelphia that are shared in Atlas.phila.gov, allowing users to switch between current imagery and historic maps.

The City of Philadelphia made a major revision of the zoning code and base maps in 2012. These shapefiles provide a few historic versions of zoning data up to the time of the zoning code change.

To prevent homeowners from becoming homeless due to foreclosure, the City initiated the Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Prevention Program, an innovative program that links a Court of Common Pleas order requiring that homeowners facing foreclosure have an opportunity to meet with their lenders to negotiate an alternative to foreclosure with City-funded housing counseling, outreach, a hotline and legal assistance. Working together, the City and the Court have created and implemented a national model.

DHCD has long supported neighborhood-based and citywide organizations offering housing counseling services to low- and moderate-income people. DHCD-funded services provided by these agencies include mortgage counseling, default and delinquency counseling, tenant support and housing consumer education. Through these services prospective homeowners can avoid predatory loans, a significant cause of foreclosure.

Locations of surface water features (rivers, creeks, ponds, reservoirs) and water beneath city bridges and adjacent to city borders. Separate files are available for each waterbody (and watershed) in KML form, or as a whole in Shapefile form.

This is one of the planimetric coverages developed as part of the aerial survey project of 1996 and updated using new aerial photography collected between 25 March 2004 and 23 April 2004.

Contains information about the applicant, business, project, and costs. Used for tracking completed projects; including tracking amounts paid.

An inventory compiled by the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia containing all the known African American historic sites in Philadelphia. Data fields for each site include Site Name, Address, Neighborhood, Significance, Site Type, Date Built, and Architect. This inventory of 400+ structures includes churches, schools, businesses, homes, clubs, benevolent associations, and more.

Founded as William Penn’s “Holy Experiment,” Philadelphia has a centuries-long history of fostering and constructing prominent houses of worship throughout the city. In recent decades, as congregations face declining membership and shifting neighborhood demographics, these historically- and architecturally-significant properties have often suffered from deferred maintenance, insensitive alterations, and partial or complete demolition.

Advocacy organizations like the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia and Partners for Sacred Places have focused on this issue for years, highlighting the threats to Philadelphia’s neighborhoods and communities if these structures continue to be abandoned or lost. Over the summer of 2011, in order to more fully understand and address the issue, the Preservation Alliance partnered with Philadelphia Historical Commission and Partners for Sacred Places to develop a comprehensive index of historic churches covering the entire city. Compiling, verifying, and updating data from a number of different sources, University of Pennsylvania graduate student Molly Lester assembled a database which includes every purpose-built house of worship constructed in the city before 1960.

Data elements include: current congregation, original congregation, address, year of construction, original architect and whether or not the build is on the Philadelphia or National Historic Registers.

City of Philadelphia land use as ascribed to individual parcel boundaries or units of land. Land use is the type of activity occurring on the land such as residential, commercial or industrial. Each unit of land is assigned one of nine major classifications of land use (2-digit code), and where possible a more narrowly defined sub-classification (3-digit code). The land use feature class has been field checked and corrected for the following Planning Districts.

The Philadelphia LandCare layer is an inventory of all vacant parcels that have received the “Clean and Green” stabilization treatment and are currently under maintenance contract with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, funded by the City of Philadelphia’s Division of Housing and Community Development. Every spring and fall, additional vacant parcels are stabilized and then added to the maintenance inventory the following year. The parcels in this layer are based off the PARCEL_PWD layer, supplied by the Philadelphia Water Department.

This dataset contains annual building and performance data for those properties required to report. Property data is pulled from the Office of Property Assessment. Energy and water data is self-reported by building owners using the EPA Portfolio Manager tool. This data will be updated annually.

The Department of Licenses and Inspections accepts applications for appeals of various violations, refusals, revocations, and denials to the following Boards: *Board of Building Standards *Licenses and Inspections (L&I) Review Board *Zoning Board of Adjustments

For more information, please visit http://www.phila.gov/li/Pages/Appeals.aspx

The Court Appeals datasets provides details about Appeals that went to court and what the status/results of the court proceedings are. Some Appeal numbers could have multiple appeal types, so those are provided as a dataset below as well.

The Board Decisions datasets shows the decisions made by the Appeal Boards (LIRB, ZBA, BBS).

This dataset contains details and locations related to investigations conducted by the Business Education and Enforcement (BEE) Program, a program run by the Department of Licenses and Inspections Quality of Life and the Commerce Department. The program educates businesses on the law, ensures the businesses have the proper licenses and permits, and tells the businesses to fix any issues that are not meeting the standards required in Philadelphia. Learn more at Philly Stat 360

The Department of Licenses & Inspections reviews construction plans and conducts building inspections to ensure the safety of the workers and the public.

Zoning permits are issued to authorize new construction or additions to a building or to authorize the change of use in a building or ground.

Building permits are required before the start of a specific construction activity to enlarge, repair, change, add to or demolish a structure, and to install equipment or systems in a structure. Depending on the scale or type of construction activity, it may need to be first authorized via a zoning permit. Permit contractors are also available as a dataset. Plumbing and electrical permits, among others, may also be required for new or existing buildings.

Please note that this is a very large dataset.

If you are comfortable with APIs, you can also use the API links to access this data. You can learn more about how to use the API at Carto’s SQL API site and in the Carto guide in the section on making calls to the API.

Certain buildings in the City of Philadelphia require periodic inspections. These inspections are performed by licensed inspection companies. Buildings that contain fire sprinkler systems or hard-wired fire alarm systems must have these systems inspected annually. Buildings over 60 feet must have their façade inspected every five years. Buildings with fire escapes or private bridges must have these structures inspected every five years. Non-vacant piers must be inspected every three years. The Department of Licenses and Inspections collects certifications documenting the conditions of these structures and enforces the requirements that property owners file these certifications with the Department and repair any structural issues or system deficiencies identified during the corresponding inspection. This dataset contains records related to these building certifications.

You can find out more information about fire protection certifications and maintenance inspections.

Information regarding applications for licenses required by the City to conduct certain business activities. Licenses are required for individuals and businesses to engage in select commercial activities. For example, vendors and restaurants require a license in order to sell goods and food and trades-people, such as plumbers and contractors, require a license in order to practice their trade.

Information includes license application type, applicant, property for which the license would be issued, application date, issue date, and expiration date. Data is accurate; however, it may be misinterpreted by an unfamiliar user.

All investigations completed on a property with property maintenance violations by an inspector of the Department of Licenses & Inspections.

Please note that this is a very large dataset. To see all investigations, download all datasets for all years.

If you are comfortable with APIs, you can also use the API links to access this data. You can learn more about how to use the API at Carto’s SQL API site and in the Carto guide in the section on making calls to the API.

Address, date of abatement, and more for properties that have been cleaned and sealed by the L&I Clean & Seal Unit.

Violations issued by the Department of Licenses and Inspections in reference to the Philadelphia Building Construction and Occupancy Code.

Please note that L&I Violations is a very large dataset. To see all violations, download all datasets for all years.

If you are comfortable with APIs, you can also use the API links to access this data. You can learn more about how to use the API at Carto’s SQL API site and in the Carto guide in the section on making calls to the API.

Complaints that were entered via 311 or by an individual in the department. Complaints were formerly known as ‘Service Requests’ in L&I’s old enterprise database called ‘Hansen’, which was decommissioned in March 2020.

Each row in the table represents a single ‘call’. Calls are sometimes bunched into one ‘Complaint’ all sharing the same unique number.

Location and contact information for the L&I district offices.

For all L&I data related inquiries contact ligisteam@phila.gov. For all other L&I related services (including eCLIPSE troubleshooting) please contact Philly311: *Inside City Limits: 311 *Outside City Limits: 215-686-8686

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.

This dataset contains information about eCLIPSE permit documents of the three following types: certificates of occupancy, variances, and denials. The document link field takes users to the documents themselves. Variances are only available when related to completed permits that were initially denied by the Board of Building Standards (BBS) or Plumbing Advisory Board (PAB). Similarly, denial documents are only available for BBS or PAB denials related to completed permits.

This dataset documents the history of permits, licenses, violations, and appeals for each property in the City.

Information regarding individuals who have applied for trades licenses such as General Contractor, Master Plumber, and more. Information includes the individual’s name, license number, license status issue date, expiration date, company name, and revenue code.

The Reinvestment Fund’s (TRF) Market Value Analysis (MVAs) is a tool residents and policymakers can use to identify and understand the elements of their local real estate markets. It is an objective, data driven tool built on local administrative data and validated with local experts. With an MVA, public officials and private actors can more precisely target intervention strategies in stressed markets and support sustainable growth in stronger markets. Visit TRF’s MVA analysis page for more information.

Mid-century modern architecture and buildings of the recent past are enjoying a resurgence of appreciation and interest nationwide, but here in Philadelphia, our eclectic collection of postwar buildings is often overlooked. To help identify and celebrate these emerging landmarks, the Preservation Alliance is compiling a list of notable structures built within the city between 1945 and 1980. The inclusion of a building in this inventory does not imply endorsement of it for designation or other purposes, nor does its absence imply a lack of significance. Rather, the list is meant to illustrate the breadth and depth of design from an era often overshadowed by earlier periods and styles.

To map streets with no through trucks in the City of Philadelphia.

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.

Philadelphia Business Lending Network (PBLN) Incentive Grant Program is an initiative to enable undercapitalized business owners to get a loan for business startup, growth, or purchase of commercial property. This program builds on the innovative Philadelphia Business Lending Network to provide additional funds in the form of grants, up to $35,000, up to 50% of loan amount, to qualifying low-to-moderate income small businesses who obtain loans through the members of Philadelphia Business Lending Network.

The Philadelphia Housing Authority Housing Sites application is a map of public housing in the City of Philadelphia. The application enables users to filter results by type of development, number of bedrooms, and units with accessibility features. The information for each housing site includes the name, location, an image, and a link to a fact sheet with additional details.

An online database of architectural and historical information and images for 35,000+ structures, 110,000 images+ images and maps and biographies of 5,000+ architects in the 5 county region around Philadelphia. Development was a collaboration between private, academic, and public entities led by the Athenæum of Philadelphia.

This dataset includes neighborhood boundaries for 150+ neighborhoods in Philadelphia. The data was gathered from a mix of publicly available maps, including from the City of Philadelphia, the City Archives, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and user feedback.

Some of the information in the open data files below may not yet reflect the data used to calculate the most recent tax year’s property value. If you see missing or incorrect info about your property, use this form to contact OPA to report the issue.

Property characteristic and assessment history from the Office of Property Assessment for all properties in Philadelphia. See more information on how OPA assesses property and their reports on the quality of assessments.

This data updates nightly. Please ignore the ‘created by’ date below - the date of August 2015 shows when this webpage, not the data, was created.

Historic districts listed on the Philadelphia Register. Data was updated by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission in August 2017. The public can confirm a property’s historic status by contacting the Historical Commission at 215-686-7660.

You can also download a dataset of the Historic sites.

Historic sites listed on the Philadelphia Register. Data was updated by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission in July 2017. The public should confirm a property’s historic status by contacting the Historical Commission at 215-686-7660.

You can also download a dataset of the Historic districts.

PhilaDox is an online database of documents filed with the City of Philadelphia Department of Records. It stores contemporary land records, including deeds, sheriff deeds, mortgages, and land titles since 1974. Data is viewable as lists, tables and scanned images of the actual documents. The database is searchable by grantor/grantee names, address, or county record book and page. Scanned documents can be downloaded as PDFs.

Full access to PhilaDox records is available with a daily, weekly, monthly, or annual subscription. More limited search for names and address is available for free public access.

PhillyHistory.org is an online database of historic photographs and maps from the Philadelphia City Archives and four additional area institutions. A project of the City of Philadelphia Department of Records, the database contains images dating back to the 1850s and can be searched by geographic criteria such as address, intersection, place name, and neighborhood as well as keyword, date, collection, topics, and other criteria. Images and maps are associated with a location using the database’s geocoding feature. Users can create a free account to save images, bookmark searches, and submit error reports.

Aggregated data used to populate cards and charts on the Philly Stat 360 dashbaord.

The purpose of this grant program is to support and encourage the growth of manufacturing companies located in Philadelphia and to promote innovation in the industry. The program is open to all eligible manufacturing companies in the city. For the purpose of this grant program, the manufacturing industry is defined as companies engaged in the production of goods through the use of tools, labor, and machinery. This includes but is not limited to companies producing consumer goods, industrial goods, and medical devices.

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.

This represents waterway structures that may require pier certifications.

Footprints of buildings and structures located on Philadelphia Parks and Recreation (PPR) properties or utilized directly by PPR.

Locations and boundaries for properties that Philadelphia Parks and Recreation (PPR) has responsibility for or has a distinct role in the maintenance or management.

BACKGROUND - The objective of geotechnical testing is to help determine the suitability of a site for green stormwater infrastructure. The tests are used to calculate infiltration rates at proposed green infrastructure locations and evaluate the lithology at depths sufficient to identify any hydraulically limiting layers that would inhibit vertical infiltration and potentially cause lateral flow. The testing includes drilling borings followed by infiltration testing within the footprint of each GSI system.

USING THE LAYER - The infiltration rates and subsurface lithology results such as depth to bedrock and depth to groundwater may be helpful for other users of this layer, but it is important to note that these values can vary widely from location to location, even for nearby sites.

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.

Polygon feature class representing major watersheds in Philadelphia. Data was developed originally from either USGS and the 2004 Sanborn DEM (digital elevation model) using ArcHydro watershed extraction tools. Major Watersheds are dissolved from subshed boundaries which reflect surface flow in relationship to stormwater inlets and outfalls.

Polygon feature class representing major watersheds in Philadelphia. Data was developed originally from either USGS and the 2004 Sanborn DEM (digital elevation model) using ArcHydro watershed extraction tools. Major Watersheds are dissolved from subshed boundaries which reflect surface flow in relationship to stormwater inlets and outfalls.

The primary purpose of PWD_PARCEL layer is to calculate parcel-based stormwater charges for PWD customers under the new parcel-based stormwater billing program. The layer was created from the DOR_PARCELS layer in 2005 after it was decided that none of the other City parcel layers could meet the needs of PWD’s stormwater billing program. Those needs are generally that the parcel delineations match up to what people actually own, that there is an accurate assessment of the impervious area on the parcel, and that there is owner information associated with the parcel. Over the past 5 years, PWD has made corrections based off deeds on file with DOR, BRT information, and other City records. PWD also matched up each DOR parcel to a corresponding BRT record that contained the owner information for that parcel.

Data about real estate accounts with tax balances. The aggregated datasets include both accounts with overdue balances (property owner owes a late balance in the current tax year but it is not yet considered delinquent) and tax delinquencies. Tax delinquencies are accounts with outstanding balances for previous tax years. A past due account becomes delinquent when the real estate tax is still unpaid on January 1 of the following year that the tax was due.

The Department of Records (DOR) published data for all documents recorded since December 06, 1999, including all real estate transfers in Philadelphia. Document type, grantor, and grantee information is presented by address for each transaction. More specifically, the real estate transfers data shows the dates and location of property sales, deeds, mortgages, and sheriff deeds, and includes associated data, such as any realty transfer tax paid. This table contains both raw source data as well as calculated and geocoded/data fields.

Please note that this is a very large dataset and Excel will not load all of the records. If you’re only comfortable with Excel, please use either the links for individual years, or the data visualization which allows you to filter the dataset by your specific interests (i.e. a zip code) and then export a custom CSV from the table at the bottom of the visualization. We provide the CSV of All Years mostly for developers to use when coding. If you are comfortable with APIs, you could also use the API links to access this data. You can learn more about how to use the API at Carto’s SQL API site and in the Carto guide in the section on making calls to the API.

Development certified areas, i.e. areas deemed blighted and eligible for urban renewal by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission under the amended Pennsylvania Urban Redevelopment Law. 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.

The parcel locations of public (School District of Philadelphia), charter, private and archdiocesan schools in the City of Philadelphia. Please keep in mind that this data, particularly with regards to enrollment, is constantly changing or is not publicly available. If you have specific questions about a school, please contact that facility directly. This dataset includes the location of schools in the City of Philadelphia with attribute information for address, grade level, type, and status. The institution types are displayed by default using the following subtypes: district (public schools), charter and private (including archdiocesan). There is also a point layer of Schools available.

Data includes points identifying public schools, charter schools, many private schools, school annexes, and athletic fields and facilities. The types of data were extended from previous schools layers in order to assist the Streets Department in their school signage and crosswalk initiatives.

The schools layer provides information on public, private, charter and archdiocesan schools. Please keep in mind that this data, particularly with regards to enrollment, is constantly changing or is not publicly available. If you have specific questions about a school, please contact that facility directly.

This data set reflects the recipients, award amounts, and project sites for grant money disbursed by the Philadelphia Commerce Department for the Storefront Improvement Program whereby businesses are provided the funds to improve the exterior of their storefront.

Used citywide as base layer for many purposes/applications. The street centerline is available for reference purposes only and does not represent exact engineering specifiactions. The Philadelphia Streets Department makes no guarantees as to the accuracy of the layer. Associated tables can be found here: https://www.opendataphilly.org/datasets/street-place-names
https://www.opendataphilly.org/datasets/street-name-alias-list

Street Centerline Arcs with link to legal cards, which are a collection of cards containing the official record of the legal description and drawings of city streets.

Table to display street names which have aliased street names associated with them.

The street nodes layer was developed for use by agencies citywide including PWD, PCPC, Police, BRT, Health, etc.

A listing of “places” and their corresponding addresses to be used for geocoding.

This layer was developed to aid the Street Lighting Division in planning, referencing, and maintaining the active street poles within the City of Philadelphia. Examples include: providing information regarding group replacement projects and any individual edits, using tables from layer for billing, and aiding cityworks.

A code violation notice is issued from the Street’s department when a person has violated one or more codes in the City of Philadelphia or violated one or more Streets Department rules and regulations. A code violation notice (CVN) is a penalty punishable by a fine up to $300.00.

Addresses have been generalized to the hundred-block level (ie. 1234 Market Street becomes 1200 block of Market Street). Please note that the CVN dataset does not include all CVNs. Some are issued as paper tickets. As of 2018, a reporting system upgrade is underway. Once complete, the City plans to update this information to include all CVNs.

Please note that this is a very large dataset. To see all CVNs, download all datasets for all years.

If you are comfortable with APIs, you can also use the API links to access this data. You can learn more about how to use the API at Carto’s SQL API site and in the Carto guide in the section on making calls to the API.

Philadelphia Taking Care of Business (PHL TCB) Clean Corridors Program funds community-based nonprofits to sweep sidewalks and remove litter within neighborhood commercial corridors. PHL TCB seeks to 1-Maintain clean commercial districts, 2-Promote the economic success of neighborhood businesses by creating an inviting environment for shoppers, 3-Create work opportunities for Philadelphians, 4-Grow the capacity of local small businesses and organizations that provide cleaning services.

This dataset reflects the businesses that received emergency grant funding through The Merchants Fund Emergency Grant Program. The program is administered by The Merchants Fund and funded by the Philadelphia Department of Commerce to support businesses experiencing unexpected emergencies. Grants are designed to help small businesses recover from emergencies, stabilize their operations, and continue serving their communities.

Dates and locations of when lots were cleaned (removing weeds, debris, etc.) through the City of Philadelphia’s Community Life Improvement Program.

Block by block percentages across Philadelphia showing the percentages of properties (buildings and lots) in each block considered likely to be vacant by the city’s Vacant Property Indicators Model.

The location of properties across Philadelphia that are likely to be a vacant lot or vacant building based on an assessment of City of Philadelphia administrative datasets.

Searchable online database of homes for sale, rent, and not currently on the market, with value estimator, market report, and real-estate trend tool. Users search by location (neighborhood, city, zip code, address) and parameters, such as property specifications, pricing, and keyword. Registration allows for favorite listing saving, customized property e-mail alerts, and other privileges. Users can also access real-estate listing data through an API.

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.

This is a table listing all of the Zoning Base District Zoning Codes and the description of each. The table can be joined via the New_Code field in this table and the Long_Code field in the Zoning_BaseDistricts feature class.