The counties of Kenya are geographical units envisioned by the 2010 Constitution of Kenya as the units of devolved government. The powers are provided in Articles 191 and 192, and in the fourth schedule of the Constitution of Kenya and the County Governments Act of 2012. The counties are also single member constituencies for the election of members of parliament to the Senate of Kenya and special women members of parliament to the National Assembly of Kenya. As of 2013 general elections, there are 47 counties whose size and boundaries are based on the 47 legally recognized Districts. Following the re-organisation of Kenya's national administration, counties were integrated into a new national administration with the national government posting county commissioners to represent it at the counties.County governments are responsible for county legislation

Kenya counties boundary data in .json format

A geospatial layer of 295 sub-counties in Kenya created by digitizing sub-county maps available for each county from the county integrated development plans (CIDPs)

We were required to Georeference topographical maps which had been shared. I digitised a polygon shapefile within the mosaicked image. I used the polygon to clip the raster dataset in which I digitised line, polygon and point features within the clipped raster. The final product was a map of Meru which is shown. We added Kenya counties layer, Kenya schools layer, Kenya health layer and Kenya streets layer to Arcmap. I then clipped my respective county which is Laikipia County,in Kenya. I then clipped the added layers to fit my county so that I could process the required data. I buffered health layer so that it could help me know which schools were within 120 m from the health facilities. Also, i buffered steets to 55m from the schools to know which were closest and their accessibility. This data was to be used by the Ministry of Health to plan for polio vaccination in the county. The finished product was a map as shown below.

Counties of Kenya

This dataset provides a 10m resolution map of cropland in Kenya for the 2019-2020 growing season (kenya_cropland_binary_2019.tif.zip) and a 10m resolution map of cropland in Busia County, Kenya for the 2020-2021 growing season (busia_cropland_binary_2020.tif.zip). Each pixel has a binary value, 0 if it does not contain crops and 1 if it does. These values were obtained by thresholding the predictions of an LSTM classifier trained on multi-spectral time series of Sentinel-2 satellite observations. A thresholding value of 0.5 was used.

This dataset also provides the hand-labelled non-crop points used for training, which were created by labelling high-resolution satellite imagery in QGIS and Google Earth Pro.

For more information, or if you use any part of this dataset, please refer to / cite the following paper: Gabriel Tseng, Hannah Kerner, Catherine Nakalembe and Inbal Becker-Reshef. 2020. Annual and in-season mapping of cropland at field scale with sparse labels. Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning workshop at NeurIPS ’20: December 11th, 2020

Kenya’s population has nearly tripled in the last 35 years, from 16.3 million in 1980 to about 47 million today yet majority of the population are below the poverty line. poverty in Kenya is a widespread problem concentrated in the rural areas. This data set shows poverty rates within the Kenyan counties.

This dataset represents the first-level administrative unit 'counties' of Kenya. The counties of Kenya are geographical units envisioned by the 2010 Constitution of Kenya as the units of devolved government. The dataset was originally produced by the WHO Teams for analysis of Rift valley fever (RVF). FAO-CSI got the data from(?) and validated topology/geometry in January, 2022. International borders were validated against the official borders from the United Nations Geospatial Information Section (UN-Map 2018).

Kenya County

Retirement Notice: This item is in mature support as of November 2025 and will be retired in December 2026. A replacement item has not been identified at this time. Esri recommends updating your maps and apps to phase out use of this item. This layer shows the purchasing power per capita in Kenya in 2023, in a multiscale map (Country and County). Nationally, the purchasing power per capita is 170,615 Kenyan shilling. Purchasing Power describes the disposable income (income without taxes and social security contributions, including received transfer payments) of a certain area's population. The figures are in Kenyan shilling (KES) per capita.The pop-up is configured to show the following information at each geography level:Purchasing power per capitaThe source of this data is Michael Bauer Research. The vintage of the data is 2023. This item was last updated in October, 2023 and is updated every 12-18 months as new annual figures are offered.Additional Esri Resources:Esri DemographicsThis item is for visualization purposes only and cannot be exported or used in analysis.We would love to hear from you. If you have any feedback regarding this item or Esri Demographics, please let us know.Permitted use of this data is covered in the DATA section of the Esri Master Agreement (E204CW) and these supplemental terms.

Y731 (1: 50 000 scale) Topographic Maps represents the main 1: 50 000 scale mapping covering large parts of Kenya. The maps illustrate the key topographic features both natural and man made. There have been multiple versions of the maps published. Not all versions of the maps are held by the Geodata Centre. Those which are currently held (November 2018) are listed. Publishers OSD Government of the United Kingdom (Crown Copyright); OSD(K) Government of the United Kingdom for the Government of Kenya; OSD(T) Government of the United Kingdom for the Government of Tanzania; OSD(U) Government of the United Kingdom; USD Department of Land and Surveys Uganda; ING French National Geographic Institute for the Government of Kenya; JICA Japan International Co-operation Agency for the Government of Kenya.

This map illustrates topographic features in the planned Kalobeyei site, Turkana County, Kenya using a Digital Elevation Model derived from imagery with 1m resolution. UNITAR-UNOSAT built water levels scenarios that represents the potentially affected areas along the modelled stream network assuming a static raising of waters of 1 meter, 2 meters and 3 meters. Streamlines and static water levels has been extracted from a Hydrologically Conditioned version of the DEM derived from WorldView-2 Imagery with 5 m resolution. The model shows spatial distribution of potential water levels in the basin based on the elevation extracted from the DEM but does not represent a current flood scenario. This is a preliminary analysis & has not yet been validated in the field. Please send ground feedback to UNITAR - UNOSAT.

Water point mapping (WPM) in Kenya is a project under the leadership of the Ministry of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (MEWNR), SNV-Netherlands and TWAWEZA aimed at improving post construction sustainability of rural water supplies. Over 8,000 water points had been mapped in 8 Counties by December 2013. (Download “Introduction to Water Point mapping.pdf ” in the about section of this dataset to find out more.)

Retirement Notice: This item is in mature support as of November 2025 and will be retired in December 2026. A replacement item has not been identified at this time. Esri recommends updating your maps and apps to phase out use of this item. This layer shows the average household size in Kenya in 2023, in a multiscale map (Country and County). Nationally, the average household size is 3.8 people per household. It is calculated by dividing the household population by total households.The pop-up is configured to show the following information at each geography level:Average household size (people per household)Total populationTotal householdsCounts of population by 15-year age increments The source of this data is Michael Bauer Research. The vintage of the data is 2023. This item was last updated in October, 2023 and is updated every 12-18 months as new annual figures are offered.Additional Esri Resources:Esri DemographicsThis item is for visualization purposes only and cannot be exported or used in analysis.We would love to hear from you. If you have any feedback regarding this item or Esri Demographics, please let us know.Permitted use of this data is covered in the DATA section of the Esri Master Agreement (E204CW) and these supplemental terms.

Y731 (1: 50 000 scale) Topographic Maps represents the main 1: 50 000 scale mapping covering large parts of Kenya. The maps illustrate the key topographic features both natural and man made. There have been multiple versions of the maps published. Not all versions of the maps are held by the Geodata Centre. Those which are currently held (November 2018) are listed. Publishers OSD Government of the United Kingdom (Crown Copyright); OSD(K) Government of the United Kingdom for the Government of Kenya; OSD(T) Government of the United Kingdom for the Government of Tanzania; OSD(U) Government of the United Kingdom; USD Department of Land and Surveys Uganda; ING French National Geographic Institute for the Government of Kenya; JICA Japan International Co-operation Agency for the Government of Kenya.

Y731 (1: 50 000 scale) Topographic Maps represents the main 1: 50 000 scale mapping covering large parts of Kenya. The maps illustrate the key topographic features both natural and man made. There have been multiple versions of the maps published. Not all versions of the maps are held by the Geodata Centre. Those which are currently held (November 2018) are listed. Publishers OSD Government of the United Kingdom (Crown Copyright); OSD(K) Government of the United Kingdom for the Government of Kenya; OSD(T) Government of the United Kingdom for the Government of Tanzania; OSD(U) Government of the United Kingdom; USD Department of Land and Surveys Uganda; ING French National Geographic Institute for the Government of Kenya; JICA Japan International Co-operation Agency for the Government of Kenya.

This map shows the average household size in Kenya in 2019, in a multiscale map (Country and County). Nationally, the average household size is 4.0 people per household. It is calculated by dividing the household population by total households.The pop-up is configured to show the following information at each geography level:Average household size (people per household)Total populationTotal householdsCounts of population by 15-year age increments The source of this data is Michael Bauer Research. The vintage of the data is 2019.Additional Esri Resources:Esri DemographicsPermitted use of this data is covered in the DATA section of the Esri Master Agreement (E204CW) and these supplemental terms.

Y731 (1: 50 000 scale) Topographic Maps represents the main 1: 50 000 scale mapping covering large parts of Kenya. The maps illustrate the key topographic features both natural and man made. There have been multiple versions of the maps published. Not all versions of the maps are held by the Geodata Centre. Those which are currently held (November 2018) are listed. Publishers OSD Government of the United Kingdom (Crown Copyright); OSD(K) Government of the United Kingdom for the Government of Kenya; OSD(T) Government of the United Kingdom for the Government of Tanzania; OSD(U) Government of the United Kingdom; USD Department of Land and Surveys Uganda; ING French National Geographic Institute for the Government of Kenya; JICA Japan International Co-operation Agency for the Government of Kenya.

Y731 (1: 50 000 scale) Topographic Maps represents the main 1: 50 000 scale mapping covering large parts of Kenya. The maps illustrate the key topographic features both natural and man made. There have been multiple versions of the maps published. Not all versions of the maps are held by the Geodata Centre. Those which are currently held (November 2018) are listed. Publishers OSD Government of the United Kingdom (Crown Copyright); OSD(K) Government of the United Kingdom for the Government of Kenya; OSD(T) Government of the United Kingdom for the Government of Tanzania; OSD(U) Government of the United Kingdom; USD Department of Land and Surveys Uganda; ING French National Geographic Institute for the Government of Kenya; JICA Japan International Co-operation Agency for the Government of Kenya.

Y731 (1: 50 000 scale) Topographic Maps represents the main 1: 50 000 scale mapping covering large parts of Kenya. The maps illustrate the key topographic features both natural and man made. There have been multiple versions of the maps published. Not all versions of the maps are held by the Geodata Centre. Those which are currently held (November 2018) are listed. Publishers OSD Government of the United Kingdom (Crown Copyright); OSD(K) Government of the United Kingdom for the Government of Kenya; OSD(T) Government of the United Kingdom for the Government of Tanzania; OSD(U) Government of the United Kingdom; USD Department of Land and Surveys Uganda; ING French National Geographic Institute for the Government of Kenya; JICA Japan International Co-operation Agency for the Government of Kenya.