Pittsburgh City Boundary

City of Pittsburgh Boundary based on 2020 Census Data. This includes Mt. Oliver Borough which is not a part of Pittsburgh but is included since it is fully enclosed by Pittsburgh. This also includes rivers within Pittsburgh. This is considered current as of August 2023.

This data shows the attendance boundaries used to assign students to feeder pattern schools based on their place of residence. These boundaries were adopted for the 2012-13 school year by the Pittsburgh Public Schools. The boundaries were drawn to align with major roads, neighborhood boundaries, and natural features. Efforts were also made to enable all students within an elementary school to move to the same middle school, and allow all students in a middle school to transition to the same high school.

This dataset portrays the boundaries of the County Council Districts in Allegheny County. The dataset is based on municipal boundaries and City of Pittsburgh ward boundaries and was updated as the result of reapportionment in September 2002. It has also been attributed with the current representatives' names. If viewing this description on the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center’s open data portal (http://www.wprdc.org), this dataset is harvested on a weekly basis from Allegheny County’s GIS data portal (http://openac.alcogis.opendata.arcgis.com/). The full metadata record for this dataset can also be found on Allegheny County’s GIS portal. You can access the metadata record and other resources on the GIS portal by clicking on the “Explore” button (and choosing the “Go to resource” option) to the right of the “ArcGIS Open Dataset” text below. Category: Civic Vitality and Governance Organization: Allegheny County Department: Geographic Information Systems Group; Department of Administrative Services Temporal Coverage: 2002-present Data Notes: Coordinate System: Pennsylvania State Plane South Zone 3702; U.S. Survey Foot Development Notes: none Other: none Related Document(s): Data Dictionary (none) Frequency - Data Change: As needed Frequency - Publishing: As needed Data Steward Name: Eli Thomas Data Steward Email: gishelp@alleghenycounty.us

About the G.M. Hopkins Maps History and Background of the Maps Maps produced by the G.M. Hopkins Company have made a lasting impression on the boundaries of many American cities. Between 1870 and 1940, the company produced over 175 atlases and real estate plat maps that primarily covered the Eastern sea board, including cities, counties, and townships in 18 different states and the District of Columbia. In the early years, the company produced county atlases, but gradually focused on city plans and atlases. They were among the first publishers to create a cadastral atlas, a cross between a fire insurance plat and a county atlas prevalent in the 1860s-1870s. These real estate or land ownership maps (also known as plat maps) not only depict property owners, but show lot and block numbers, dimensions, street widths, and other buildings and landmarks, including churches, cemeteries, mills, schools, roads, railroads, lakes, ponds, rivers, and streams. Originally named the G.M. Hopkins and Company, the map-making business was jointly founded in 1865 in Philadelphia, Pa., by the Hopkins brothers, G.M. and Henry. The true identity of G.M. Hopkins remains somewhat of a mystery even today. “G.M.” either stands for Griffith Morgan or George Morgan. There are three different possibilities for the confusion over his identity. “Either the compilers of the earlier [city] directories were negligent; G.M. Hopkins changed his first name; or there were two G.M. Hopkins (father and son) working for the same firm” (Moak, Jefferson M. Philadelphia Mapmakers. Philadelphia: Shackamaxon Society, 1976, p. 258).

http://digital.library.pitt.edu/abouthp/#hopkins

Watersheds for surface water streams and rivers within Pittsburgh boundaries. StreamStats was the original source, and the geometry was simplified afterwards.

This dataset demarcates the school district boundaries within Allegheny County

If viewing this description on the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center’s open data portal (http://www.wprdc.org), this dataset is harvested on a weekly basis from Allegheny County’s GIS data portal (http://openac.alcogis.opendata.arcgis.com/). The full metadata record for this dataset can also be found on Allegheny County’s GIS portal. You can access the metadata record and other resources on the GIS portal by clicking on the “Explore” button (and choosing the “Go to resource” option) to the right of the “ArcGIS Open Dataset” text below.

Category: Civic Vitality and Governance

Organization: Allegheny County

Department: Geographic Information Systems Group; Department of Administrative Services

Temporal Coverage: 2015

Data Notes:

Coordinate System: Pennsylvania State Plane South Zone 3702; U.S. Survey Foot

Development Notes: none

Other: none

Related Document(s): Data Dictionary (none)

Frequency - Data Change: As needed

Frequency - Publishing: As needed

Data Steward Name: Eli Thomas

Data Steward Email: gishelp@alleghenycounty.us

This dataset contains parcel boundaries attributed with county block and lot number. Use the Property Information Extractor for more control downloading a filtered parcel dataset.

If viewing this description on the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center’s open data portal (http://www.wprdc.org), this dataset is harvested on a weekly basis from Allegheny County’s GIS data portal (http://openac.alcogis.opendata.arcgis.com/). The full metadata record for this dataset can also be found on Allegheny County’s GIS portal. You can access the metadata record and other resources on the GIS portal by clicking on the “Explore” button (and choosing the “Go to resource” option) to the right of the “ArcGIS Open Dataset” text below.

Category: Civic Vitality and Governance

Organization: Allegheny County

Department: Department of Real Estate

Temporal Coverage: updated daily on Allegheny County's GIS Open Data page

Data Notes:

Coordinate System: Pennsylvania State Plane South Zone 3702; U.S. Survey Foot

Development Notes: none

Other: none

Related Document(s): Data Dictionary (none)

Frequency - Data Change: Multiple times per hour

Frequency - Publishing: Daily

Data Steward Name: Eli Thomas

Data Steward Email: gishelp@alleghenycounty.us

This dataset demarcates stands of trees (coniferous and deciduous) too numerous to plot as individual trees. The area is delineated following a generalized line along the outside edge of tree trunks. Areas are captured if at least one acre in size or of major significance especially in urban areas.

If viewing this description on the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center’s open data portal (http://www.wprdc.org), this dataset is harvested on a weekly basis from Allegheny County’s GIS data portal (http://openac.alcogis.opendata.arcgis.com/). The full metadata record for this dataset can also be found on Allegheny County’s GIS portal. You can access the metadata record and other resources on the GIS portal by clicking on the “Explore” button (and choosing the “Go to resource” option) to the right of the “ArcGIS Open Dataset” text below.

Category: Environment

Organization: Allegheny County

Department: Geographic Information Systems Group; Department of Administrative Services

Temporal Coverage: 2011

Data Notes:

Coordinate System: Pennsylvania State Plane South Zone 3702; U.S. Survey Foot

Development Notes: Original data was derived from aerial photography flown in the spring of 1992 for the eastern half of the County and the spring of 1993 for the western half of the County.

Other: none

Related Document(s): Data Dictionary (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13iD7V2XJ36DYVpnRm-3RG7CprSsCHGrWw6-bZorl8Mg/edit?usp=sharing)

Frequency - Data Change: As needed

Frequency - Publishing: As needed

Data Steward Name: Eli Thomas

Data Steward Email: gishelp@alleghenycounty.us

This data includes counts of firearms by type seized by the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police. Each row describes a seizure incident involving one or more firearms.

Firearm seizures can occur for several reasons. One of the Bureau of Police justifications for seizing a firearm involves a suspicion that a firearm was used in a criminal offense. Seizures may also occur to protect officer or public safety. For example, a weapon held by someone involved in a serious medical emergency, or an unattended weapon found in a public space may be seized and held for safekeeping.

The Bureau’s firearms tracking unit conducts investigations to determine the rightful owner of firearms that have been seized. Where possible, the Bureau makes every effort to return firearms that have been seized to their rightful owners.

Firearms seized by non-City of Pittsburgh law enforcement agencies within the City of Pittsburgh may not be included in this data. Federal, State, County, and other special law enforcement agencies (e.g. campus, transit, hospital, etc.) operate within the City limits.

Data collected through supplemental reports filled out by Pittsburgh Bureau of Police officers upon taking possession of a firearm.

Locations where the seizure occurred are anonymized to the address block or nearest intersection. It's not always possible to geocode these anonymized addresses. In cases where geocoding fails, the latitude and longitude fields are left empty. These will display as "None" in table views on the WPRDC site.

Exact date and report numbers have been removed to protect the privacy of individuals and any active investigations.

This dataset contains information on the Pittsburgh Parking Authority's parking meters and other payments points, including a description of the location of the meter, which parking zone it is in, and its geocoordinates.

The "Payment Points + Rates" table is augmented with information about rates and the limits on when parking is metered.

City of Pittsburgh Street Centerline Data DictionaryEditor Tracking (created_date, created_user, last_edited_date, last_edited_user)Automatically recorded information indicating the creation date and user and the last modified date and user.From/To Street Name (fromstreet, tostreet)Where the street segment ends or begins. The starting point of the line segment is the From Street and the end point of the line segment is the To Street. The names of the cross streets are used where applicable. If the segment does not begin or end at a cross street, CITY LIMIT and DEAD END can both be used. The name of the street itself can also be used in situations where the beginning or end of a segment is in between cross streets.Functional Class (domi_class)A general classification system used by the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure to stratify roads by significance.• Principal Arterial - Roadways with high traffic volumes such as interstate highways, freeways, and expressways; frequently the route of choice for intercity buses and trucks.• Minor Arterial – Roadways that serve trips of moderate length and smaller geographic areas than principal arterials.• Collector – Roadways that “collect” traffic from Local Roads and connect traffic to Arterial roadways. Typically, shorter than Arterial Routes but longer than Local Roads. Collectors provide traffic circulation within residential neighborhoods as well as commercial, industrial, or civic districts.• Local – Roadways that provide direct access to adjacent land, not intended for use in long distance travel. Locals roads provide access to higher systems, and typically don’t carry through traffic movement.• Alley - Streets intended to provide access to the rear or side of lots or buildings in urban areas and not intended for the purpose of vehicular through traffic.• Park Road – Roadways that provide access into and through parks.• Private Road – Privately owned and maintained roads. Private roads are often open to the public in spaces such as shopping malls, airports, and sports arenas. Public access can be restricted to private gated properties.• UnknownLength (measurlgth)The length of the segment measured in feet, projected using the NAD 1983 State Plane Pennsylvania South FIPS 3702 (US Feet) projection.Most Recent Paving Date (replaced)The date a segment was most recently resurfaced, repaved, or otherwise restored.Number of Travel Lanes (num_lanes)Number of travel lanes in any direction of travel on an undivided road. Divided roadways using more than one segment note number of lanes on the given segment only.One Way Designation (oneway)The direction of allowed traffic flow along a route• N: Travel allowed in both directions.• FT: One way travel allowed in the direction the line segment is drawn, from the beginning of the line (from) to the end of the line (to).• TF: One way travel allowed in the opposite direction the line segment is drawn, from the end of the line (to) to the beginning of the line (from).Owner (owner)The owner of a road, usually but not necessarily always responsible for maintenance activities and project initiation.• CITY• STATE• PRIVATE• MT OLIVER• COUNTY• PORT AUTHORITY• OTHER MUNICIPALITY• UnknownOverall Condition Index (estimatedoci)A measure of the general condition of publicly-maintained streets. This benchmark is represented by numerical values ranging from 0 to 100, with lower values representing poorer conditions and higher values representing better conditions.Pavement Surface Evaluation and Rating (paser_score)The PASER scale is a 1-10 rating system for road pavement condition developed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Transportation Information Center. PASER uses visual inspection to evaluate pavement surface conditions.Road Status (class)The status of the road, typically indicating either the maintenance responsibility or if and why a segment cannot traversed by vehicle.Right/Left Council District (council_rt, council_lt)The Council District identifier to the right and left of a segment, when facing the direction the line segment has been drawn.Right/Left Fire Zone (fire_zn_rt, fire_zn_lt)The Bureau of Fire Zone identifier to the right and left of a segment, when facing the direction the line segment has been drawn.Right/Left Neighborhood (hood_right, hood_left)The Neighborhood identifier to the right and left of a segment, when facing the direction the line segment has been drawn.Right/Left Police Zone (zone_right, zone_left)The Bureau of Police identifier to the right and left of a segment, when facing the direction the line segment has been drawn.Right/Left Street Maintenance Division (dpw_zon_rt, dpw_zon_lt)The Department of Public Works Street Maintenance Division identifier to the right and left of a segment, when facing the direction the line segment has been drawn.Right/Left Street Sweeping (sweep_right, sweep_left)The Street Sweeping Route identifier to the right and left of a segment, when facing the direction the line segment has been drawn. The identifier consists of 3 parts: the Public Works Division, the route number, and the date of street sweeping (e.g. ‘5SW8-2W’ is done by the 5th Division, on route number 8, and completed on the 2nd Wednesday of each month).Right/Left Voting District (vote_dt_rt, vote_dt_lt)The Voting District identifier to the right and left of a segment, when facing the direction the line segment has been drawn.Right/Left Ward (ward_rg, ward_lt)The Ward identifier to the right and left of a segment, when facing the direction the line segment has been drawn.Right/Left Zip Code (zipr, zipl)The Zip Code identifier to the right and left of a segment, when facing the direction the line segment has been drawn.Road Removal Date (retired)The date indicating when a segment was removed from the street centerline dataset, usually indicating the road was removed due to new development or other changes in the immediate area.Road Surface Width (roadwidth)Surface width in feet. The measurement of the full traveled way and shoulders/auxiliary lanes.Segment ID (carteid)A unique identifier assigned to each street segment in the City of Pittsburgh.Speed Limit (speedlimit)The speed limit for traffic travelling on both sides of the road.Street Name (streetname, prefix, name, type, suffix, dir)The streetname field contains the name of a road (a combination of prefix, name, type, suffix, dir. Names in this field are written in all capital letters and their abbreviated type. (E.g. MAIN ST, E QUINN RD). The prefix field contains any prefix before the proper street name, usually an abbreviated cardinal direction (N, S, E, W). The name field contains the spelled out street name. The type field contains the type of street (e.g. road, avenue, way). The suffix field contains any suffix after the proper street name, usually an abbreviated cardinal direction (N, S, E, W). The dir field contains the direction of travel in relation to another segment, typically a tunnel, bridge, or highway.Surface Material Type (paveclass)The material used to build the street surface• Asphalt• Concrete• Brick• Blockstone• Unsurfaced• Metal Deck• Wood• Unknown

This dataset demarcates the U.S. Legislative Congressional district boundaries within Allegheny County.

If viewing this description on the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center’s open data portal (http://www.wprdc.org), this dataset is harvested on a weekly basis from Allegheny County’s GIS data portal (http://openac.alcogis.opendata.arcgis.com/). The full metadata record for this dataset can also be found on Allegheny County’s GIS portal. You can access the metadata record and other resources on the GIS portal by clicking on the “Explore” button (and choosing the “Go to resource” option) to the right of the “ArcGIS Open Dataset” text below.

Category: Civic Vitality and Governance

Organization: Allegheny County

Department: Geographic Information Systems Group; Department of Administrative Services

Temporal Coverage: 2015

Data Notes:

Coordinate System: Pennsylvania State Plane South Zone 3702; U.S. Survey Foot

Development Notes: none

Other: none

Related Document(s): Data Dictionary (none)

Frequency - Data Change: As needed

Frequency - Publishing: As needed

Data Steward Name: Eli Thomas

Data Steward Email: gishelp@alleghenycounty.us

In 2017, the County Department of Economic Development, in conjunction with Reinvestment Fund, completed the 2016 Market Value Analysis (MVA) for Allegheny County. A similar MVA was completed with the Pittsburgh Urban Redevelopment Authority in 2016. The Market Value Analysis (MVA) offers an approach for community revitalization; it recommends applying interventions not only to where there is a need for development but also in places where public investment can stimulate private market activity and capitalize on larger public investment activities. The MVA is a unique tool for characterizing markets because it creates an internally referenced index of a municipality’s residential real estate market. It identifies areas that are the highest demand markets as well as areas of greatest distress, and the various markets types between. The MVA offers insight into the variation in market strength and weakness within and between traditional community boundaries because it uses Census block groups as the unit of analysis. Where market types abut each other on the map becomes instructive about the potential direction of market change, and ultimately, the appropriateness of types of investment or intervention strategies.

The 2016 Allegheny County MVA does not include the City of Pittsburgh, which was characterized at the same time in the fourth update of the City of Pittsburgh’s MVA. All calculations herein therefore do not include the City of Pittsburgh. While the methodology between the City and County MVA's are very similar, the classification of communities will differ, and so the data between the two should not be used interchangeably.

Allegheny County's MVA utilized data that helps to define the local real estate market. Most data used covers the 2013-2016 period, and data used in the analysis includes:

•Residential Real Estate Sales; • Mortgage Foreclosures; • Residential Vacancy; • Parcel Year Built; • Parcel Condition; • Owner Occupancy; and • Subsidized Housing Units.

The MVA uses a statistical technique known as cluster analysis, forming groups of areas (i.e., block groups) that are similar along the MVA descriptors, noted above. The goal is to form groups within which there is a similarity of characteristics within each group, but each group itself different from the others. Using this technique, the MVA condenses vast amounts of data for the universe of all properties to a manageable, meaningful typology of market types that can inform area-appropriate programs and decisions regarding the allocation of resources.

During the research process, staff from the County and Reinvestment Fund spent an extensive amount of effort ensuring the data and analysis was accurate. In addition to testing the data, staff physically examined different areas to verify the data sets being used were appropriate indicators and the resulting MVA categories accurately reflect the market.

Please refer to the report (included here as a pdf) for more information about the data, methodology, and findings.

This file can be used as a tool to append geographic codes to geocoded point data. The file was developed by Pitt's Center for Social and Urban Research and provides the county, census tract, county subarea/municipality, Allegheny County Council District, PA House and Senate District numbers, school district, and Zip codes. Also included from the City of Pittsburgh: neighborhoods, wards, City Council election districts, and City administrative boundaries, including Permits Licenses and Inspection administrative zones, Public Works administrative zones, Fire districts, and Police zones. The file contains data from Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Lawrence, Washington, and Westmoreland Counties in Pennsylvania.

This dataset contains condemned properties in the City of Pittsburgh and is maintained by the Department of Permits, Licenses, and Inspections (PLI). Some of the properties are labelled as "dead-end", which means that they are condemned properties for which PLI cannot locate the owner. Properties are classified as "dead end" if multiple attempts to make contact with the owner fail. This dataset contains information about the property condition, location, and owner of each property condemned in the City of Pittsburgh. Motivation/Collection These pages provide more information about how and why the data on condemned properties is collected: https://engage.pittsburghpa.gov/pli-demolition-engagement https://pittsburghpa.gov/pli/condemned-buildings Notes Currently, some parcel_id values appear in multiple records, leading to the same property appearing multiple times, with different values for fields like latest_inspection_score . This will be fixed soon. The numerical range for latest_inspection_score is currently 0-62, but the system is being adjusted, and eventually these scores will be adjusted to a 1-4 scale.

In 2021, Allegheny County Economic Development (ACED), in partnership with Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh(URA), completed the a Market Value Analysis (MVA) for Allegheny County. This analysis services as both an update to previous MVA’s commissioned separately by ACED and the URA and combines the MVA for the whole of Allegheny County (inclusive of the City of Pittsburgh). The MVA is a unique tool for characterizing markets because it creates an internally referenced index of a municipality’s residential real estate market. It identifies areas that are the highest demand markets as well as areas of greatest distress, and the various markets types between. The MVA offers insight into the variation in market strength and weakness within and between traditional community boundaries because it uses Census block groups as the unit of analysis. Where market types abut each other on the map becomes instructive about the potential direction of market change, and ultimately, the appropriateness of types of investment or intervention strategies.

This MVA utilized data that helps to define the local real estate market. The data used covers the 2017-2019 period, and data used in the analysis includes:

• Residential Real Estate Sales
• Mortgage Foreclosures
• Residential Vacancy
• Parcel Year Built
• Parcel Condition
• Building Violations
• Owner Occupancy
• Subsidized Housing Units

The MVA uses a statistical technique known as cluster analysis, forming groups of areas (i.e., block groups) that are similar along the MVA descriptors, noted above. The goal is to form groups within which there is a similarity of characteristics within each group, but each group itself different from the others. Using this technique, the MVA condenses vast amounts of data for the universe of all properties to a manageable, meaningful typology of market types that can inform area-appropriate programs and decisions regarding the allocation of resources.

Please refer to the presentation and executive summary for more information about the data, methodology, and findings.

This dataset demarcates municipal voting districts in Allegheny County.

If viewing this description on the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center’s open data portal (http://www.wprdc.org), this dataset is harvested on a weekly basis from Allegheny County’s GIS data portal (http://openac.alcogis.opendata.arcgis.com/). The full metadata record for this dataset can also be found on Allegheny County’s GIS portal. You can access the metadata record and other resources on the GIS portal by clicking on the “Explore” button (and choosing the “Go to resource” option) to the right of the “ArcGIS Open Dataset” text below.

Category: Civic Vitality and Governance

Organization: Allegheny County

Department: Elections Division; Department of Administrative Services

Temporal Coverage: 2016

Data Notes:

Coordinate System: Pennsylvania State Plane South Zone 3702; U.S. Survey Foot

Development Notes: Collier and South Park were redistricted.

Other: none

Related Document(s): Data Dictionary (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HR24LyBNpLwvJZoaGp-tBGRw0HRoXNIef6nU4UQQMMo/edit?usp=sharing)

Frequency - Data Change: As needed

Frequency - Publishing: As needed

Data Steward Name: Eli Thomas

Parcel boundaries for all properties in Baldwin Borough