data . willkara
dataset · OpenDataPhilly · ArcGIS

Vacant Property Indicators

The City's three-layer view of vacancy: ~8.1k vacant buildings, ~25k vacant lots, and ~22.6k census blocks scored by vacancy percentage. Queried through our Cloudflare worker proxy against the City's ArcGIS Feature Services.

data through 2026-06-21 · 8,462 rows

vacant_indicators_bldg · grouped

Vacant buildings by council district

  1. District 8 1.6K
  2. District 5 1.2K
  3. District 3 1.2K
  4. District 7 1.1K
  5. District 4 972
  6. District 2 719
  7. District 9 579
  8. District 1 566
  9. District 6 412
  10. District 10 114

vacant_indicators_bldg · grouped

Top ZIPs by vacant buildings

  1. 19132 750
  2. 19134 720
  3. 19140 665
  4. 19143 566
  5. 19139 492
  6. 19144 443
  7. 19121 390
  8. 19141 333
  9. 19138 330
  10. 19131 326

Vacant Property Indicators counts ~8.1k vacant buildings (this layer) and ~25k vacant lots (a companion layer). The block-percentage layer surfaces the spatial concentration — which blocks are mostly vacant, not just somewhat vacant. The bigger story is that vacancy is hyper-local, not citywide. See The Vacant Block Effect for a walk through where stabilization landed.

Stories using this data

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The vacant block effect

Philadelphia has roughly 8,000 vacant buildings on the city's books and 12,000 parcels stabilized by the PHS LandCare program. They don't sit in the same places — and the 311 dumping and graffiti calls reveal whose blocks the gap leaves behind.