New York City Congressional District Boundaries Including Water Areas

Current version 26a of US Congressional District boundaries for New York City, including portions under water. The data is provided by the City of New York's Department of City Planning and was last updated on March 15, 2026. All previously released versions are available on the DCP's BYTES of the BIG APPLE website.

Use Cases

• Visualizing electoral district boundaries for New York City based on the described geospatial data.
• Analyzing the relationship between land and water areas within congressional districts based on the included water areas.
• Conducting redistricting or demographic analysis using the official political boundaries.
• Integrating district shapes into mapping applications for election planning.

Strengths

• Includes water areas, providing a more complete geographic representation of districts.
• Maintained by the authoritative City of New York Department of City Planning.
• Multiple file formats (XML, RDF, JSON, CSV) are available for flexibility.
• Historical versions are archived, allowing for temporal analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

City of New York, Department of City Planning (DCP)

Collection Method

Likely digitized and maintained as part of the city's official planning datasets.

Time Range

Current version is 26a; temporal coverage of boundaries is not specified.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03 15 02:44:09.568301; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New York City, United States.