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

1,550 matches (likely staff working copies and non-Houston research layers hidden)

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Bissonnet Area

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon
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blocks combo1

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon
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Blocks w Harvey p4

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon

Texas extract of Census Blocks from the Census Bureau's 2020 Census Redistricting Data (P.L. 94-171) TIGER/Line® shapefile. All legal boundaries and names are as of January 1, 2020. The boundaries shown are for Census Bureau statistical data collection and tabulation purposes onl…

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Boundary Old Pct 2

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon

Current, court approved, official data from revised A-1 commissioner precinct map as of 8/11/11. Formerly, Proposed_Comm_Pct2011RevisedA1. Updated to reflect 2016 election results Updated CM3 Commissioner name with election results from Nov. 3, 2020

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Boundary P2

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon
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Bridge chipped

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon

Feature layer generated from running the Find by Attributes and Location analysis tool.

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · point

Feature layer generated from running the Find by Attributes and Location analysis tool.

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Bridges P4

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · point
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Bridges P4 1

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · point
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Bridges streets

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polyline

Harris County Road Log for cataloging managed and unmanaged road segments.

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BS2N 2020

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polyline

BS2N 2020

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BS2N 2021

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polyline

BS2N 2021

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BS2N 2022

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polyline

BS2N 2022

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BS2N 2023

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polyline

BS2N 2023

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polyline

Harris County Road Log for cataloging managed and unmanaged road segments.

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Bus Routes

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polyline

Bus routes are color coded by frequency: Red - Frequent all day service (Goal every 15 minutes or less)Blue - Frequent Peak service, less frequent non-peak service (15 minute peak, 30 minutes or less non peak)Green - Less frequent all day service (31 plus minutes all day)Orange -…

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Bus Stop Gulfton

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · point

Locations for boarding or alighting the Houston METRO bus system. This data is used for map display, query and analysis in Geographic Information System (GIS) software. This data is also imported into, and used in Trapeze FX, a bus scheduling software. From there, the bus stop lo…

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Butadiene

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · point

13 Butadiene

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c62 Parks 1

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · point
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Calls

Harris County ArcGIS Online · table
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CAMP Locations

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · point
Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · point

Harris County Pollution Control CAMP Locations 2020

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