District of Columbia Parking Violations for October 2025

District of Columbia data details parking citation locations issued by the Metropolitan Police Department and partner agencies. The dataset contains violations summarized by time of day, week of year, year, and category, geocoded to street segment centroids.

Use Cases

• Analyze parking violation frequency by time of day and week of year to optimize enforcement patrol schedules.
• Map citation density by street segment centroid coordinates to identify high-violation corridors for urban planning.
• Study trends in the category of violation to assess the impact of specific traffic enforcement policies.

Strengths

• Data is geocoded to street segment centroids for spatial analysis.
• Includes multiple violation categories for detailed breakdowns.
• Covers enforcement from multiple agencies including MPD and DDOT.
• Available in multiple formats including CSV and GeoJSON for flexibility.

Limitations

• Specific row count and column details are unknown, limiting assessment of scale and features.
• Data is limited to a single month (October 2025), restricting longitudinal analysis.
• Summarized ticket counts may aggregate away individual citation details.

Provenance

Source

District of Columbia government, extracted from the Department of Motor Vehicle's eTIMS system.

Collection Method

Data was geocoded to the street segment level by the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO).

Time Range

October 2025.

Freshness

Last updated March 2026, providing recent metadata for a specific past month of data.

Geography

District of Columbia, United States.