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)

In the explorer

ESD EMS

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon · fields · ask about it

GIS data files downloaded from HCAD (http://pdata.hcad.org) 2/7/19. GIS emergency service district (ESD) data primarily for EMS is updated quarterly by HCAD GIS personnel and uploaded to repository. The last HCAD update Jan 2019 next update July 2022

In the explorer

ESD FIRE

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon · fields · ask about it

GIS data files downloaded from HCAD (http://pdata.hcad.org) 4/4/22. GIS emergency service district (ESD) data primarily for fire response is updated quarterly by HCAD GIS personnel and uploaded to repository. The last HCAD update Jan 2022, next update July 2022

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon · fields · ask about it

Harris County constable precinct boundary maintained by Harris Co. US-GIS. Boundaries are aligned to H-GAC imagery and county boundary is clipped to Harris_County_Boundary

In the explorer

HC Channels

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polyline · fields · ask about it

This "Channels" layer comes from "hydrology" dataset. This feature class is used for CIP dashboard

In the explorer

HC Parks

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon · fields · ask about it

Location of Harris County Parks

In the explorer

H C Watersheds

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon · fields · ask about it

Watershed basins derived from 2001 LiDAR elevations with update to Upper San Jacinto River and Luce Bayou watersheds (outside HC) from TNRIS hydrologic units data.

Worth adding

AirMonitorLast365Days

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · point

County community air sensors, rolling year of 15-minute readings

Worth adding

AirMonitorLast7Days

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · point

County community air sensors, 15-minute readings, ~1 hour behind

Not loaded

2024 01 30 WA 2

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polyline
Not loaded

2024 01 30 WA3

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polyline
Not loaded

2024 01 30 WA 4

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polyline
Not loaded

2nd Shapefile

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon
Not loaded

62 Parks

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · point
Not loaded

62 Parks P4

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon
Not loaded

abanondedrail

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polyline
Not loaded

AccessPoints

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

Broadband ACP Data for July, 2023

Not loaded

Acrolein

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polygon

Harris County Pollution Control Blue Sky Acrolein

Not loaded

Adopt a street

Harris County ArcGIS Online · layer · polyline

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

Add a dataset

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.