Seattle On-Street Paid Parking Occupancy Data for the Last 48 Hours

The City of Seattle provides on-street paid parking occupancy data under its Open Data Program. The dataset, titled 'Paid Parking (Last 48 Hours)', is intended for public use in research and entrepreneurial applications. It was last updated on 2026-03-22 03:38:26.252463.

Use Cases

• Model parking occupancy and turnover rates based on the on-street paid parking data.
• Analyze temporal demand patterns for curb space based on the 48-hour time window.
• Develop predictive tools for parking availability based on historical occupancy trends.
• Inform urban policy on parking management and pricing based on utilization data.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the authoritative City of Seattle government.
• Explicitly intended for research and entrepreneurial use under an open data program.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats: CSV, JSON, RDF, and XML.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and total 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 Seattle

Collection Method

Likely collected from city-operated on-street parking infrastructure such as pay stations.

Time Range

Covers the last 48 hours from the point of data generation.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-22 03:38:26.252463; freshness should be verified.

Geography

City of Seattle, Washington, USA.