GIS Shapefiles from the City of Philadelphia. Includes building outlines, street centerline files, administrative boundaries, aerial photos, parcels, curbs, and contours.

From policymap.com, you can access all of the information you need about a place without having to visit multiple websites or task staff and consultants with collecting and analyzing data. Policymap.com houses thousands of indicators related to demographics, real estate markets, crime, schools, housing affordability, employment, energy and public investments. Much of this data is available to the public for free — other proprietary data, such as demographic and employment projections, and home sale trends — are only available to paying subscribers. All data comes with brief, reliable, easy-to-understand definitions. For a complete listing of data available in policymap.com, please refer to the Data Directory link in the upper right of the web page. TRF hopes that you will suggest other datasets you’d like to see incorporated into PolicyMap. Click on the Suggest a Dataset link at the bottom of the web page to send us your ideas.

The City of Philadelphia provides maps of City Services, service areas, and zoning rules.

The Cartographic Modeling Lab provides shapefiles for download of several Philadelphia files, most notably the Philadelphia Neighborhoods file used in the creation of the Neighborhood Base.

Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access Center files on Philadelphia. Includes shapefiles from the City of Philadelphia, as well as some state resources. Important files here are Street Centerlines, local area boundaries (planning commission, police, councilmanic districts) and aerial photos.

Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access Center files on Philadelphia. Includes shapefiles from the City of Philadelphia, as well as some state resources.

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Information is at the sub-county level, but only one level beneath county, generally, so Philadelphia is broken only into Planning districts.

Funded by a 3-year grant from the William Penn Foundation, the Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project combines two types of information to illuminate conditions and trends in our 9-county region (defined as the central cities of Philadelphia and Camden along with the Pennsylvania counties of Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery, and the New Jersey counties of Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Salem). The first is a set of social, environmental and economic indicators that portray the quality of life in the region’s communities. The second type of information comes from an annual household survey conducted by Temple’s Institute for Survey Research, asking respondents across the region how they assess the quality of life in their communities. Tracking over time the changes in the indicators and in the survey responses, we can better understand how citizens’ perceptions relate to the changing conditions on the ground.

Access to the Community Health Database is limited to researchers who buy access and promise not to share the data. However, PHMC has the most current and extensive data on Philadelphia neighborhood health.