Houston Open Data Explorer

Houston Open Data Catalog

Houston and Harris County publish a huge amount of open data, scattered across dozens of portals nobody tracks. This catalog lists every dataset we've found in one place, whether or not it's loaded into the explorer. Know a source we're missing? Add it, and it's shared with everyone.

7,221datasets and layers found
17portals and publishers
153loaded and joinable in the explorer
Where the data lives (17 sources)
SourceWhat it isItemsLoaded
Harris County ArcGIS Online
services.arcgis.com
One organization shared by county departments, precincts and staff. Mixes authoritative layers (fire stations, parks, crashes) with many working copies and one-off maps; review before use. 3,11216
Rice University ArcGIS Online
services.arcgis.com
Research and class projects. Houston gems (HCFCD buyout lots, draft 2026 FEMA flood map, historical census, redlining) among worldwide student work. Research copies of agency data need permission before reuse. 2,8880
Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) ArcGIS Online
services2.arcgis.com
Environmental and regional research layers; source of the 2021 city cool-center list. 5281
City of Houston GIS (ArcGIS Hubs)
geohub.houstontx.gov
Two Hub sites (Public Works geohub, citywide mycity) over several ArcGIS servers. Official. 314119
Harris County Flood Control District ArcGIS Online
services2.arcgis.com
High-water marks, floodplains, projects, acreage by program. Source of the storm HWM layers. 2654
City of Houston Open Data (data.houstontx.gov)
data.houstontx.gov
Separate from the GIS hubs. Mostly spreadsheets; finance (checkbook, payroll, budget) and census stay current, much else frozen since a 2023 migration. 940
U.S. Census Bureau
api.census.gov
43
FEMA (OpenFEMA and National Flood Hazard Layer)
www.fema.gov
43
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
data.epa.gov
22
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
data.cdc.gov
22
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
www.tceq.texas.gov
21
Texas Water Development Board
www.twdb.texas.gov
11
U.S. Geological Survey water data
waterservices.usgs.gov
10
City of Houston 311 public data extracts
www.houstontx.gov
11
METRO (Harris County transit)
www.ridemetro.org
10
Stanford Open Policing Project
openpolicing.stanford.edu
10
TxDOT Crash Records Information System (CRIS)
cris.dot.state.tx.us
10

2,869 matches (likely staff working copies and non-Houston research layers hidden)

Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon

This map shows the redline areas that have the CAPA temperature raster coverage. Summarized the CAPA temperature mean, max, and min values in Houston Redline areas.

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Heatwatch PM

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon
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Heatwatch PM AM

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon
Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon

Summarized the CAPA temperature mean, max, and min values in Houston and Harris 2020 Campaign areas.

City of Houston Open Data (data.houstontx.gov) · dataset · updated 2023-06-09 · XLS

[Houston Fire Department] Various counts of EMS, Fire, and Total event and responses by station for the Houston Fire Department. Each Event can occur for more than one station. Therefore, the number of...

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HGAC Bike

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polyline
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HGAC CRP Watersheds

Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon

It's used for water-resource management and planning activities.

Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon

Eco Types for the 8-county H-GAC region. The data is circa 2008.

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HGAC Major Roads

Rice University ArcGIS Online · layer · polyline
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HGAC Parks

Rice University ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon
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HGAC Parks

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon
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HGACSignals

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · point
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HGAC TIRZ

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon
Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) ArcGIS Online · layer · point

2019 trash bash data from H-GAC.

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HGAC Zipcode FS

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · point

Official DatasetThe H-GAC ZIP code coverage includes polygons centroids and their attributes for Harris, Fort Bend, Brazoria, Galveston, Chambers, Liberty, Montgomery, Waller, Austin, Colorado, Matagorda Wharton and Walker Co.

Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) ArcGIS Online · layer · polyline

Estimated subsidence in feet from 1906-2016 using measured land surface elevation change at benchmarks surveyed in 2000 and estimated annual subsidence rates from 2011-2016 at HGSD GPS subsidence network assuming a constant rate of subsidence from 2010-2016.

Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) ArcGIS Online · layer · point

Subsidence GPS Monitors from HGSD.

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HHP park tiers

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon
Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon

This feature class/shapefile is for the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation Level Database (HIFLD) https://gii.dhs.gov/HIFLD as well as the Energy modelling and simulation community.Data source:Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Data and details are hosted by HIFLD as received f…

Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) ArcGIS Online · layer · point

The National Bridge Inventory (NBI) is a collection of information (database) describing the more than 615,000 of the Nation's bridges located on public roads...

Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) ArcGIS Online · layer · polyline

This feature class/shapefile is for the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation Level Database (HIFLD) and the Energy modelling and simulation community.

Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) ArcGIS Online · layer · point

This feature class us for the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation Level Database and the Energy modelling and simulation community.

Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) ArcGIS Online · layer · polyline

It represents natural gas transmission hubs in the continguous U.S. These data originate from the U.S. Energy Information Administrartion.

Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) ArcGIS Online · layer · point

It represents natural gas transmission hubs in the continguous U.S. These data originate from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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Highway Shields

Harris County Flood Control District ArcGIS Online · FeatureServer
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Highway Shields BW

Harris County Flood Control District ArcGIS Online · layer · point

Black & white version of the TxDOT roadway symbols in and around Harris County.

Harris County Flood Control District ArcGIS Online · layer · point

Simplified Highway Shields using the Symbology

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HIN RL1

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polyline
City of Houston Open Data (data.houstontx.gov) · dataset · updated 2023-06-09 · XLS,XLSX

[Office of Business Opportunity] Learn more at http://www.houstontx.gov/obo/hirehoustonfirst.html. Dataset provides a listing of businesses currently designated as Hire Houston First companies at the time the...

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HISD Schools

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · point
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HISDSchools

Rice University ArcGIS Online · layer · point

This data contains all current HISD schools.

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Historical Flooding

Harris County Flood Control District ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon

Historical Flooding by Census Tract

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Historical Markers

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · point

Harris County, TX historical marker inventory

Harris County Flood Control District ArcGIS Online · layer · point

Locations of Historical Threatened and Endangered Species

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Found Houston or Harris County open data we don't list? A portal, a map service, a spreadsheet on an agency page, a research dataset? Tell us where it is. Reviewed suggestions are added to the catalog for everyone.