What types of data and features are available on City-Data.com?

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City-Data.com aggregates data from government and private sources to build detailed profiles for every U.S. city, and it organizes that data into browsable categories plus a set of interactive tools. You can look up a specific city, compare states, or drill into topics like crime, schools, and cost of living. The site reports over 14 million users per month and has been cited in 121 books and by outlets including CNN and USA Today.

Data categories you can browse

The site's navigation is built around a set of primary categories, each available across states:

  • Cities — profiles for U.S. cities, reachable by state or through advanced city search.
  • Schools — school data organized by state.
  • Neighborhoods — neighborhood-level profiles by state.
  • Assessments — property assessment data for a subset of states (AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, NE, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WV).
  • Restaurants — restaurant listings by state.
  • Sex Offenders — offender data by state.
  • Business Entities — business registration data by state.
  • Building Permits — filed permit records.
  • Canada — province-level data for Canadian provinces and territories (AB, BC, MB, NB, NL, NS, NT, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT).

Topic-specific content

Beyond the category navigation, City-Data publishes focused sections and guides:

  • City Guides and Tourist Attractions
  • Articles and a Blog ("Our data in action")
  • Banks
  • Covid-19
  • Crime
  • Work and Jobs
  • Houses, Apartments
  • U.S. Cemeteries
  • Zip Codes

Tools and interactive features

The site's description and homepage point to several tools layered on top of the raw data:

  • Interactive data map — a map-based way to explore the data.
  • Home value estimator
  • Recent sales data
  • Photos and maps
  • Weather data
  • Forum — a discussion community attached to the site
  • Advanced city search — for locating a specific city profile

How to get to a specific profile

The homepage offers three entry points: a quick navigation row of states, a By category selector (choose a category, then a state), or advanced city search. The stated goal is to "jump to a detailed profile" for a city, which then surfaces the crime rates, weather patterns, and other metrics collected for that place.

If you already know the city, advanced search is the fastest route. If you're comparing places, start from a category like Cities or Crime and move state by state.