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 2026-11-01 · 9,593 rows

vacant_indicators_bldg · grouped

Vacant buildings by council district

  1. District 8 1.8K
  2. District 7 1.4K
  3. District 5 1.4K
  4. District 3 1.3K
  5. District 4 1.1K
  6. District 2 753
  7. District 1 653
  8. District 9 640
  9. District 6 464
  10. District 10 122

vacant_indicators_bldg · grouped

Top ZIPs by vacant buildings

  1. 19134 981
  2. 19132 791
  3. 19140 753
  4. 19143 629
  5. 19139 527
  6. 19133 500
  7. 19144 437
  8. 19124 410
  9. 19121 407
  10. 19141 387

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.