Business License Applications and Statuses from New Orleans

2018 to present-day records of business license applications and their processing statuses from the Office of Business and External Services in New Orleans. The dataset includes application timelines, fees, and geographic details. It is published by data.nola.gov.

Use Cases

• Predict `Status` or `Days to Issue Date` using features like `Council Districts`, `Category`, and `SumFee`.
• Analyze geographic distribution of business types via `NAICS` codes and `X`, `Y` coordinates.
• Model `Days to Application Review` or `Days to first inspection` based on `Category`, `Class`, and `JournalCount`.
• Identify trends in business license `Reason` for denial or `ExitCode` over time using `Application Filed` and `IssueDate`.

Strengths

• Multi-year temporal coverage from January 2018 to present.
• Contains over 25 columns including geospatial coordinates (`X`, `Y`, `Longitude`).

Limitations

• Unknown row count prevents assessment of statistical power.
• Sample data unavailable to verify data quality or completeness.

Provenance

Source

data.nola.gov

Collection Method

Business license applications submitted to the Office of Business and External Services.

Time Range

January 1, 2018 to present.

Freshness

Updated as of April 2026.

Geography

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (inferred from data.nola.gov).