District of Columbia requires most businesses to obtain a Basic Business License (BBL) from the Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection (DLCP). The BBL program groups licenses by business activity type and required regulatory approvals. The dataset is published by the District of Columbia government and was last updated on March 25, 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze business license distribution by activity type based on the BBL grouping system.
- Map licensed business locations based on the available geospatial (GEOJSON) data format.
- Study regulatory compliance and licensing procedures for specific commercial sectors.
- Identify the prevalence of different business activities requiring a license in the District of Columbia.
Strengths
- Data is provided in multiple formats including CSV and GEOJSON, enabling both tabular and spatial analysis.
- Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, allowing for broad reuse and redistribution.
- Maintained by the authoritative source, the District of Columbia government.
Limitations
- Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- District of Columbia Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection (DLCP)
- Collection Method
- Likely an administrative record of issued licenses.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-25 08:19:13.165913; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- District of Columbia, Washington D.C.