CityScore

DoIT Data & Analytics

Updated Nov 4, 2026

Update frequency: Daily

About this dataset

Provides metrics on overall city health based on work done across all facets of the City of Boston.

For more information about CityScore, please refer to this link: https://www.boston.gov/cityscore

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CityScore Full Metric List
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CityScore Summary
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CityScore Full Metric List
Full CityScore metric list containing actual, target, and score data.
3.6 MBModified Apr 12, 2019Table and Data API available
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CityScore Summary
Daily average CityScore.
Modified Apr 12, 2019Table and Data API available
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CityScore Metric Definitions LEGACY
This document of CityScore Metric Definitions applies to both the CityScore full metric list and CityScore summary.
Modified Apr 6, 2017PDF preview available
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Type: Tabular
Source: Boston Police Department crime statistics feed, Boston Public Library enterprise Integrated Library System (ILS), City Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) system, City of Boston Voice over IP (VoIP) System, Citywide enterprise permitting and licensing software, Computer Aided Dispatch system (CAD)
Publisher: Department of Innovation and Technology
Update frequency: Daily
Temporal notes: Please note that CityScore captures a data snapshot once every weekday. Source systems are constantly updating, and these updates can include revisions to existing data that could affect CityScore's calculations. The most recent records are always the most accurate. In addition, you may notice null values in the data set, which indicate that CityScore has no data for a given time period. This most often occurs when a particular data source is updated on a different schedule than CityScore's calculations. We are currently working to adjust our process to allow CityScore to capture data every day, including weekends, as well as to retroactively generate values for fields created after the initial CityScore launch in January 2016.
Theme: Performance
Location: Boston (all)
Contact point: DoIT Data & Analytics
Contact point email: analyticsteam@boston.gov
Contact point phone number: (617) 635-4783
License: Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Added to catalog: Jan 10, 2017

Fields and labels follow the portal's ckanext-scheming dataset schema.

DoIT Data & Analytics

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