Community Districts: 59 Administrative Boundaries for New York City

Community District boundaries for New York City, mandated by the city charter to review quality of life issues. The dataset includes 59 community districts and 12 Joint Interest Areas (major parks and airports), with a unique BoroCD identifier for each. It is provided by the City of New York's Department of City Planning and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Mapping neighborhood administrative units based on the provided boundary data.
• Analyzing spatial relationships between community districts and Joint Interest Areas (parks and airports).
• Joining demographic or quality-of-life data using the unique BoroCD identifier.
• Monitoring and reviewing local issues as mandated by the city charter for community boards.

Strengths

• Includes a defined count of 59 community districts and 12 Joint Interest Areas.
• Provides a unique identifier (BoroCD) for each district and area, facilitating data joins.
• Maintained by the authoritative City of New York Department of City Planning.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.

Provenance

Source

City of New York, Department of City Planning

Collection Method

Administrative data mandated by the New York City Charter.

Time Range

Current version is 26a; all previous versions are archived.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-15 02:45:10.701935; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New York City, including its five boroughs.