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 2026-08-30 · 9,051 rows

vacant_indicators_bldg · grouped

Vacant buildings by council district

  1. District 8 1.7K
  2. District 5 1.4K
  3. District 3 1.3K
  4. District 7 1.2K
  5. District 4 1.1K
  6. District 2 744
  7. District 9 622
  8. District 1 585
  9. District 6 417
  10. District 10 102

vacant_indicators_bldg · grouped

Top ZIPs by vacant buildings

  1. 19132 806
  2. 19134 740
  3. 19140 725
  4. 19143 643
  5. 19139 518
  6. 19144 445
  7. 19133 427
  8. 19121 406
  9. 19124 378
  10. 19141 377

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.