Seattle Paid Parking Transactions from Street Pay Stations and Phone Payments

Seattle's Open Data Program provides daily parking transaction records for research and entrepreneurial use. Data is derived from street pay stations and paid-by-phone systems within city limits. The dataset is updated nightly with the prior day's transaction information.

Use Cases

• Model parking demand and turnover based on transaction volume and timing.
• Analyze payment method preferences between street pay stations and phone systems.
• Forecast city revenue from parking based on historical transaction trends.
• Study urban mobility patterns by correlating parking transactions with time and location.

Strengths

• Data is updated nightly, suggesting a high degree of recency.
• Sourced from two distinct systems: street pay stations and phone payments.
• Published under a city open data program for public use.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and total historical coverage are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

City of Seattle

Collection Method

Derived from parking pay stations on city streets and paid-by-phone parking transactions.

Time Range

Prior day's data is added nightly; full historical range is unspecified.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-22 03:37:49.170416; data is downloaded nightly.

Geography

Streets within Seattle city limits.