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    Community Reporting Areas

    Metadata Updated: May 10, 2025

    Please Note:  Community Reporting Areas (CRA) have been updated to follow the 2020 census tract lines which resulted in minor changes to some boundary conditions.  They have also been extended into water areas to allow the assignment of CRAs to overwater housing and businesses.  To exclude the water polygons from a map choose the filter, water=0.Community reporting areas (CRAs) are designed to address a gap that existed in city geography. The task of reporting citywide information at a "community-like level" across all departments was either not undertaken or it was handled in inconsistent ways across departments. The CRA geography provides a "common language" for geographic description of the city for reporting purposes. Therefore, this geography may be used by departments for geographic reporting and tracking purposes, as appropriate.  The U.S. Census Bureau census tract geography was chosen as the basis of the CRA geography due to their stability through time and link to widely-used demographic data.The following criteria for a CRA geography were defined for this effort:no overlapping areascomplete coverage of the citysuitable scale to represent neighborhood areas/conditionsreasonably stable over timeconsistent with census geographyrelatively easy to use in a data contextfamiliar system of common place namesrespects neighborhood district geography to the extent possibleThe following existing geographies were reviewed during this effort:neighborhood planning areas (DON)neighborhood districts (DON/CNC/Neighborhood District Councils)city sectors/neighborhood plan implementation areas (DON)urban centers/urban villages (DPD)population sub-areas (DPD)Neighborhood Map Atlas (City Clerk)Census tract geographytopographyvarious other geographic information sources related to neighborhood areas and common place namesThis is not an attempt to identify neighborhood boundaries as defined by neighborhoods themselves.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date September 2, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date May 10, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Seattle JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date September 2, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date May 10, 2025
    Publisher City of Seattle
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=23e2cd44d0b248c5ba6115eaee6df9cf&sublayer=43
    Data First Published 2022-04-21
    Data Last Modified 2025-04-09
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://cos-data.seattle.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id eab33e61-a8c4-4b76-a3ff-6b797a7942e4
    Harvest Source Id f61de7a2-69cf-40a9-a1bc-dd9edb8f3fe5
    Harvest Source Title Seattle JSON
    Homepage URL https://data-seattlecitygis.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/SeattleCityGIS::community-reporting-areas-3
    License https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/summary
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -122.4360,47.4924,-122.2259,47.7363
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 8ec5e9d005c48cc8674e0e3c5b357859a2b04c3b4d6090cd040f3c140ac7a9f4
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -122.4360, 47.4924, -122.4360, 47.7363, -122.2259, 47.7363, -122.2259, 47.4924, -122.4360, 47.4924}

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