Vacant Property Indicators — Buildings
Parcels across Philadelphia that the city's Vacant Property Indicators model flags as holding a likely vacant building. It is the structural counterpart to vacant_indicators_land, built by the same inter-agency model.
9,041 parcels each carry a build_rank between 0.5 and 1.0, measuring how many administrative signals agree the building is empty. The distribution leans low: 5,778 parcels score 0.5 and only 135 reach 1.0, so full agreement is rarer here than for vacant land.
bldg_desc describes the structure, and councildistrict and zoningbasedistrict are carried through for aggregation without a spatial join.
Source: Vacant Property Indicators on OpenDataPhilly.
Spatial Coverage
- Bounding Box: [-75.2739214974549, 39.8912306514407, -74.9589405963185, 40.1329329]
Temporal Coverage
- Start: open
- End: ongoing
Schema
Files
Quick Start
STAC Metadata
- root:
../catalog.json - parent:
../catalog.json
Source
https://opendataphilly.org/datasets/vacant-property-indicators/
Processing Notes
Extracted 2026-08-26 from the Vacant_Indicators_Bldg FeatureServer. Rank semantics come from the city data team's post on the OpenDataPhilly forum, which states that a BUILD_RANK of 0.50 or higher marks a property as a likely vacant building.
Citation
City of Philadelphia (2026). Philadelphia Housing and Land Use. Retrieved from OpenDataPhilly. Mirrored on Source Cooperative at https://source.coop/nlebovits/phl-housing-demo.
Attribution
City of Philadelphia
License
Contact
Nissim Lebovits nissim.lebovits@radiant.earth
Known Issues
Every parcel here scores at least 0.5, the threshold for inclusion, so the collection is not a census of vacant buildings.
build_rank takes only four values: 0.5 (5,778), 0.667 (2,988), 0.833 (140), and 1.0 (135). They are stored as floating point, so compare with a range rather than equality.
A building can appear sound from the street and still be flagged, because the model reads administrative signals rather than condition.
Generated by Portolan from STAC metadata and .portolan/metadata.yaml