Planning and Economic Development shares easy‑to‑use data that helps residents see how our city is growing. 
Explore information about community demographics, new development, and business activity to understand the trends shaping our neighborhoods and local economy.

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Planning and Economic Development

finance

Finance

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Public Safety

environment

Environment

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Geospatial

Community Services connects residents with the people, programs, and places that strengthen our neighborhoods. 
Explore data on local organizations, civic activities, and library services that help support learning, engagement, and community life across the city.

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Community Services

Open Data Commons Attribution License

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The Department of Neighborhoods has five divisions that help neighbors resolve neighborhood concerns. Together, we help improve the quality of life in Houston neighborhoods through people-focused programs and strong community partnerships.

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Department of Neighborhoods

All Projects that exist in FORMS since creation

All Projects

All observed violations in FORMS (the system of record) history data (before 01/01/2014)

All Code Enforcement Violations in FORMS - History Data

All observed violations in FORMS (the system of record) since 01/01/2014

All Code Enforcement Violations in FORMS Since 2014

All project level actions before 01/01/2014. This does not include violation actions

This sheet served as history of project level actions.

All Project Level Actions Before 2014

All Updated project level actions on and after 01/01/2014. This does not include violation actions.

All Project Level Actions Since 2014

City of Houston Building Code Enforcement Violations (DON)

payroll

The Administration & Regulatory Affairs Department (ARA) provides a wide variety of administrative services to the City of Houston’s departments, such as 311 service request routing, payroll processing, asset disposition, citywide policy management, internal mail services, records management, and insurance risk management.

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Administration and Regulatory Affairs

This is a direct link to a visual report created with Microsoft Power BI and using the data from this dataset. 

Visual Report

Short presentation video of the Payroll dataset on YouTube. 

Short presentation video

The Payroll dataset includes information about the City of Houston employee payroll, including salary and pay from January 2026 to date. 

Payroll 2026

The Payroll dataset includes information about the City of Houston employee payroll, including salary and pay from January 2025 to date. 

Payroll 2025

The Payroll dataset includes information about the City of Houston employee payroll, including salary and pay from January to December 2024.  

Payroll 2024

The Payroll dataset includes information about the City of Houston employee payroll, including salary and pay for January to December 2023. 

Payroll 2023

The payroll dataset includes information about the City of Houston employee payroll, including salary and pay for the calendar year 2022. 

Payroll 2022

The payroll dataset includes information about the City of Houston employee payroll, including salary and pay for the calendar year 2021. 

Payroll 2021

The payroll dataset includes information about the City of Houston employee payroll, including salary and pay for the calendar year 2020. 

Payroll 2020

The payroll dataset includes information about the City of Houston employee payroll, including salary and pay for the calendar year 2019.

Payroll 2019

The Payroll dataset includes information about the City of Houston employee payroll, including salary and pay for the calendar year 2018.

Payroll 2018

Payroll

checkbook

The mission of the Finance Department is to safeguard the fiscal integrity of the City, its component units, and other dependent entities and enable other City stakeholders to do the same. We will do this by sustaining and growing a dynamic organization filled with strong people that use rigorous policies, processes, and systems.

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Finance Department

Short presentation video of the Checkbook dataset on YouTube. 

The Checkbook 2027 dataset includes information about the City's payments, including vendors and contracts for the fiscal year 2027. 

Checkbook 2027

The Checkbook 2026 dataset includes information about the City's payments, including vendors and contracts for the fiscal year 2026.

Checkbook 2026

The Checkbook 2025 dataset includes information about the City's payments, including vendors and contracts for the fiscal year 2025. 

Checkbook 2025

The Checkbook 2024 dataset includes information about the City's payments, including vendors and contracts for the fiscal year 2024.

Checkbook 2024

The Checkbook 2023 dataset includes information about the City's payments, including vendors and contracts for the fiscal year 2023.

Checkbook 2023

The Checkbook 2022 dataset includes information about the City's payments, including vendors and contracts for the fiscal year 2022.

Checkbook 2022

The Checkbook 2021 dataset includes information about the City's payments, including vendors and contracts for the fiscal year 2021.

Checkbook 2021

The Checkbook 2020 dataset includes information about the City's payments, including vendors and contracts for the fiscal year 2020.

Checkbook 2020

The Checkbook 2019 dataset includes information about the City's payments, including vendors and contracts for the fiscal year 2019. 

Checkbook 2019

The Checkbook 2018 dataset includes information about the City's payments, including vendors and contracts for the fiscal year 2018. 

Checkbook 2018

Checkbook

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This data represents solicitations for various goods and services for purchases for all departments within the City of Houston that were previously posted on the City’s e-bid site.  Both formal (over $50,000.00) and informal ($50,000.00 and under) solicitations issued from September 1, 2002 through December 3, 2023 are included in this dataset. 

Archived Solicitations

Provide line-item details for the archived solicitations. 
Please refer to the resources of this dataset for more information and data. 

Archived Solicitations Line Items

eBid Visual Report

Those archived solicitations were extracted from the Ariba Discovery system on April 7th, 2025. 

Archived Solicitation from Ariba Discovery

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We are a full-service health department that performs many enhanced functions to address health inequities.

Our services benefit all Houston residents, but we also take additional steps to support those most in need, such as low-income mothers and children, the elderly, and minority populations.

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Houston Health Department

Inspections by Site - Fiscal Year 11

Inspections by Site - Fiscal Year 12

Inspections by Site - Fiscal Year 13

Inspections by Site - Fiscal Year 14

Inspections by Site - Fiscal Year 15 - As of 3/31/2015

City of Houston Health and Human Services Food Service Facility Inspections

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We are a dynamic organization that serves one of the largest service areas – both population and area – in the country. 2.3 million residents in the City of Houston are the primary beneficiaries of a comprehensive customer-focused service delivery strategy.

Our system operates 41 public service units, including 27 Neighborhood Libraries, 5 Regional Libraries, 3 History Research Centers, 2 Express Libraries, the HPL Mobile Express, 3 TECHLink locations, and a satellite location at the Children’s Museum of Houston. Our Downtown Houston flagship facility, Central Library, along with the Barbara Bush Literacy Plaza, anchors this constellation of service points. HPL is committed to equitable access to information and programs in an increasingly digital age.

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Houston Public Library

Information about the Houston Public Library Locations.

Houston Public Library Data 2026.csv

Includes history of the Houston Public Library locations and people the buildings are named after.

Houston Public Library Location History.csv

Houston Public Library Website

Houston Public Library Inventory and History

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ArcGIS Hub Dataset

ArcGIS GeoService

Shapefile

GeoJSON

Houston Libraries

departments

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City of Houston

The data in this file have been collected from: 
-the City's department webpage (https://www.houstontx.gov/departments.html)
-the mayor's office webpage (https://www.houstontx.gov/mayor/divisionsanddirectors.html)
-the organizational structure from major applications
-customary acronyms

Departments

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Houston, the 4th largest city in the United States, is a dynamic, growing city, rich in culture and diversity. The Planning & Development Department’s mission is to grow and preserve Houston’s diverse communities to create a resilient city.

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Planning and Development

Excel spreadsheet listing zip codes located fully within the City of Houston limits

Zip Codes Fully Within City of Houston

Excel spreadsheet listing zip codes partially within the City of Houston limits, which includes areas annexed for limited purpose. This table includes fields indicating whether services like police, EMS, and fire are provided within those limited purpose annexation areas. 

City of Houston Open Data

Showcases

MyCity

Open Finance

Police Transparency Hub

Texas Public Information Act

Groups

Popular datasets

City of Houston Building Code Enforcement Violations (DON)

Payroll

Checkbook

Archived Solicitations

City of Houston Health and Human Services Food Service Facility Inspections

New and recent datasets

Houston Public Library Inventory and History

Payroll

Houston Libraries

Departments

City of Houston Zip Codes