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

200 matches (likely staff working copies and non-Houston research layers hidden)

Rice University ArcGIS Online · layer · point

Persons In Motion Edward's Trajectory and Houses Up to Hancock

Rice University ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon

Arsenic plumes traced from site sampling maps by Golder, in Response Action Plan, Revision 5. RCRA Part B Renewal Application Compliance Plan. Attachment XI.D. August 31, 2020. PDF p. 156-157. Accessed from "Information on Houston Wood Preserving Works Site and Area Cancer Cluste…

Rice University ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon

Arsenic plumes traced from site sampling maps by Golder, in Response Action Plan, Revision 5. RCRA Part B Renewal Application Compliance Plan. Attachment XI.D. August 31, 2020. PDF p. 156-157. Accessed from "Information on Houston Wood Preserving Works Site and Area Cancer Cluste…

Rice University ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon

Polygon traced from "Atachment 2A-2 Response Action Design Groundwater," prepared November 2015 by Pastor, Behling & Wheeler LLC for Union Pacific Railroad Co.

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Second Ward

Rice University ArcGIS Online · layer · point

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sidewalk COH

Rice University ArcGIS Online · layer · polyline
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SVI2020 TEXAS tract

Rice University ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon

The CDC\ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) is a tool, created by the Geospatial Research, Analysis and Services Program (GRASP), to help public health officials and emergency response planners identify and map the communities that will most likely need support before, during,…

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SVIHarris

Rice University ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon

The CDC\ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) is a tool, created by the Geospatial Research, Analysis and Services Program (GRASP), to help public health officials and emergency response planners identify and map the communities that will most likely need support before, during,…

Rice University ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon

Building footprints coverted from underlying imagery from 2019-2020. This data is licensed by Microsoft under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL).

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Texas Highways

Rice University ArcGIS Online · layer · polyline

texas highways

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Texas Railroads

Rice University ArcGIS Online · layer · polyline

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