Chicago E-Scooter Trips Summarized by Census Tract

Electric scooter trips from Chicago's ongoing program, aggregated by census tract. The dataset includes columns for start and end locations, community areas, and trip counts. It is published by data.cityofchicago.org and was last updated on 2026-05-22.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trip flow between Start Community Area Name and End Community Area Name using Trip Count.
• Mapping trip origins and densities using Start Centroid Latitude and Start Centroid Longitude.
• Comparing annual e-scooter usage trends across different Start Census Tract areas using Year and Trip Count.
• Identifying high-traffic corridors by joining start and end coordinates from Start Centroid Location and End Centroid Location.

Strengths

• Includes precise geographic coordinates (Start Centroid Latitude, Start Centroid Longitude) for spatial analysis.
• Provides a Unique_ID for each summarized record, likely ensuring traceability.
• Covers an ongoing city program, suggesting potential for temporal analysis across the Year column.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Some Census Tract values are blank, and tracts with very low trip frequency (under 4% as of 2022) have been removed for privacy, potentially introducing geographic bias.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

data.cityofchicago.org

Collection Method

Summarized from the city's electric scooter trip program data.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-22 19:50:21; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Chicago, Illinois, USA, aggregated by census tract.