The Department of City Planning created PGHSNAP because we believe that public information should not only be easily accessible, but easily understood. All of the datasets presented in PGHSNAP are already available to the public, but are housed in many different locations, with varying degrees of difficulty in accessing them. Also, many of them are organized at differing levels of analysis, and aren't available by Pittsburgh neighborhood. We've taken those datasets and organized them by neighborhood--all 90 of them--and put them into an easy to understand format.

Another important reason for creating PGHSNAP is that the City of Pittsburgh is embarking on its first ever comprehensive plan: PLANPGH. Creating a comprehensive plan requires a lot of data to be collected, and it requires a lot of maps to be made. PGHSNAP will serve as the data and map foundation for PLANPGH

In addition to the connection to PLANPGH, PGHSNAP is closely linked to the City's online interactive mapping application, PGHGIS. The “GIS” in PGHGIS stands for "Geographic Information System," and it is a consistently updated, constantly growing resource for maps for Pittsburgh.

The information contained within PGHSNAP can be accessed in two ways:

PGHSNAP Published Data

You can get a PDF version of PGHSNAP that will allow you to view and print data & maps for any neighborhood you choose. The data is already formatted and arranged by neighborhood, and is ready to use. It’s easy to find what you need--the PDF is interactive and contains a wealth of information. To learn more about how Published Data is organized, see the box below.

Click here to get the Published Data

PGHSNAP Raw Data

Sometimes you just want to do things for yourself. PGHSNAP’s raw data section will allow you to download datasets in various formats (such as .xcl, .csv, .shp, .kml, etc.). You can sort, crunch, and graph the data as you please.

Coming Soon!

Within the Asset Profiles section, data is organized at three levels: Citywide, by Planning Sector (groups of neighborhoods), and individual
neighborhoods.

At each of these levels, you’ll find information about many types of things, including the following:

-Population and Density
-Building Conditions and Investment
-Transportation
-Open Space, Parks, and Recreation
-Education, Health, and Safety
-Historic Assets
-Public Art
-Housing
-Employment
-Education & Income
-Public Safety
-Built Environment
-Natural Environment
-Land Use & Zoning
-Transportation

In addition to simply presenting the data as it is, PGHSNAP provides a section that combines several key datasets into strategy maps that can help policy makers, neighborhood advocates, and other stakeholders to make decisions that can make our neighborhoods better.

The strategic maps are based on the following critical neighborhood indicators:

Blight:
-Foreclosures
-Tax Delinquent Properties
-Vacant Parcels
-Condemned Buildings
-Building Code Violations