December 2016 Parking Violation Locations in Washington D.C.

Parking citation locations in the District of Columbia, issued by the Metropolitan Police Department and partner agencies. Data is geocoded to street segment centroids and summarized by time of day, week, year, and violation category. The dataset is provided in multiple formats including CSV and GeoJSON.

Use Cases

• Analyze spatial patterns of parking violations using geocoded street segment centroids to identify enforcement hotspots.
• Study temporal trends in citation counts summarized by time of day and week of year for resource planning.
• Examine the distribution of different violation categories across the city's street network.
• Integrate violation location data with other urban datasets using the provided GeoJSON or ArcGIS REST API formats.

Strengths

• Data is geocoded to the street segment level, providing precise spatial coordinates.
• Available in multiple interoperable formats including CSV, GeoJSON, and ArcGIS REST API.
• Citations are summarized by multiple dimensions: time of day, week of year, year, and violation category.

Limitations

• The dataset is limited to a single month (December 2016), offering no longitudinal view.
• Sample data and specific column definitions are unavailable, complicating initial analysis.
• Data represents summarized ticket counts, not individual violation records, limiting granular analysis.

Provenance

Source

District of Columbia's Metropolitan Police Department and partner agencies.

Collection Method

Extracted from the District Department of Motor Vehicle's eTIMS system, geocoded by the Office of the Chief Technology Officer.

Time Range

December 2016.

Freshness

Data is from December 2016, though metadata was updated in March 2026.

Geography

District of Columbia (Washington D.C.), United States.