Pennsylvania Tobacco Retailer Licenses with Daily Updates and Geospatial Data

A daily-refreshed list of active cigarette and other tobacco product licenses issued to Pennsylvania businesses by the Department of Revenue. The dataset includes business addresses, political and school district boundaries, and georeferenced coordinates. License numbers are partially masked to reduce fraud, and expired or cancelled licenses are removed.

Use Cases

• Mapping tobacco retailer density by County and Municipality Boundary 2 using Georeferenced Latitude & Longitude.
• Analyzing license distribution across political jurisdictions using Pa Senatorial Districts, Pa House Districts, and US House Districts for PA 2019.
• Tracking license Expiration Date and License Type for compliance monitoring and enforcement planning.
• Joining business locations in City and Street Address with school district data via Pa School Districts for public health research.

Strengths

• Daily refresh cadence ensures current license status.
• Includes multiple geographic boundary columns (e.g., PA County Boundaries Spatial Data Current Transportation, Municipality Boundary 2) for spatial joins.
• Contains both Legal Name and Trade Name for business identification.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• A portion of the license number is masked, limiting unique identifier utility.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Pennsylvania Department of Revenue (DOR).

Collection Method

Maintained by the DOR; business addresses are provided by the Licensee.

Time Range

Current active licenses; temporal coverage is not specified.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-03 03:32:27; refreshed daily.

Geography

State of Pennsylvania, United States.