US Municipal Open Data

Building permits, business licences, 311 service requests, NYC restaurant inspections, and NY State active liquor licenses across NYC, SF, Chicago, LA, Austin, and New York State.

What It Does

US Municipal Open Data delivers high-frequency civic, licensing, and commercial activity telemetry from Socrata open data portals across major metropolitan regions. Fodda queries building permits, business licenses, and 311 service complaints across NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Austin, alongside NYC DOHMH Restaurant Inspection Results (sanitary violations and dining formats) and New York State Active Liquor Licenses (bar, brewery, and on-premise licensing velocity) to track ground-level urban commerce and regulatory compliance.

Key Features & Data Slices

  • Building Permits & Construction Filing Velocity
  • New Business Licenses & 311 Service Requests
  • NYC DOHMH Restaurant Inspections & Violations
  • NYS Active Liquor Licensing & Venue Formats

Institutional Source & Provenance

Curated by Socrata / US Municipal Governments (Economic).

Machine Query Protocol (Fodda MCP)

Query this dataset directly inside Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, or custom agent workflows:

POST https://api.fodda.ai/v1/graphs/socrata_us_cities/search