King County Metro Flex: On-Demand Transit Service Areas

King County Metro Flex is an on-demand neighborhood transit service. The dataset, hosted by data.kingcounty.gov, includes geographic service area information. It was last updated on April 23, 2026.

Use Cases

• Mapping service area boundaries using the_geom for spatial visualization.
• Analyzing the relationship between service area names (Name) and their geographic extents (the_geom).
• Performing spatial joins with other datasets (e.g., census tracts) using the_geom to assess population coverage.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple machine-readable formats (CSV, JSON, XML, RDF).
• The last update timestamp (2026-04-23 17:34:18) is explicitly provided.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

data.kingcounty.gov

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-23 17:34:18; freshness should be verified.

Geography

King County, Washington, USA (implied by organization)