Philadelphia Studies: Planning & Political

Includes current and some historical political maps. State legislative maps, ward and division maps, city council maps, police district maps, etc.

Interactive web map of city facilities, parks, and other information collected by the City of Philadelphia.

Print version available at Fine Arts Library.

Maps of Philadelphia wards as they've changed.

Shapefiles of Philadelphia ward boundaries from 1820 to 1931.

Interactive web map of public housing in Philadelphia. Results can be filtered by type of development, number of bedrooms, and units with accessibility features.

Interactive web map of city facilities, parks, and service areas. Maps exportable to PDF.

Interactive map of park access.

Interactive map of traffic volume counts.

Commuting patterns data from the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics, by ZIP code or census geography, 2002-the present.

Current parcel information for properties within Philadelphia County in an interactive mapping interface. Historic Maps feature overlays registry maps so that historic owners may be traced through deed registers.

Once you've found Register, Sheet, and Line numbers as parcel identifiers in DOR Parcel Explorer, you can access PDF-format page images for Philadelphia County deed registers using Penn's subscription to PhilaDox.

A searchable database of Philadelphia Property Records from 1/1/1974 to the present. Provides page-image reproductions of deeds and other property-registration documents.

Philadelphia deed records: document images available from 1683 through 1974. Not for the fainthearted.

Property location, proposed market value, and exemption/abatement information.
OpenDataPhilly provides current versions of DOR property parcel shapefiles (updated weekly) and property assessment data (current year and 5-year cumulative).

Integrated web map that displays permits, licenses, and violations for businesses, construction, rentals, vacancies, demolitions, and zoning.

Data from by the city’s Department of Licenses and Inspections: addition permits, alteration permits, sign permits, vacancy licenses, housing inspection records, etc.

Enter an address or block to get information on ownership, property value, and zoning.