Community Reporting Areas

Metadata Updated: April 12, 2025

Please Note: Community Reporting Areas (CRA) have been updated to follow the 2020 census tract lines which resulted in minor changes to some boundary conditions. They have also been extended into water areas to allow the assignment of CRAs to overwater housing and businesses. To exclude the water polygons from a map choose the filter, water=0.Community reporting areas (CRAs) are designed to address a gap that existed in city geography. The task of reporting citywide information at a "community-like level" across all departments was either not undertaken or it was handled in inconsistent ways across departments. The CRA geography provides a "common language" for geographic description of the city for reporting purposes. Therefore, this geography may be used by departments for geographic reporting and tracking purposes, as appropriate. The U.S. Census Bureau census tract geography was chosen as the basis of the CRA geography due to their stability through time and link to widely-used demographic data.The following criteria for a CRA geography were defined for this effort:no overlapping areascomplete coverage of the citysuitable scale to represent neighborhood areas/conditionsreasonably stable over timeconsistent with census geographyrelatively easy to use in a data contextfamiliar system of common place namesrespects neighborhood district geography to the extent possibleThe following existing geographies were reviewed during this effort:neighborhood planning areas (DON)neighborhood districts (DON/CNC/Neighborhood District Councils)city sectors/neighborhood plan implementation areas (DON)urban centers/urban villages (DPD)population sub-areas (DPD)Neighborhood Map Atlas (City Clerk)Census tract geographytopographyvarious other geographic information sources related to neighborhood areas and common place namesThis is not an attempt to identify neighborhood boundaries as defined by neighborhoods themselves.

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Metadata Created Date	September 2, 2022
Metadata Updated Date	April 12, 2025

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Resource Type	Dataset
Metadata Created Date	September 2, 2022
Metadata Updated Date	April 12, 2025
Publisher	City of Seattle
Maintainer	Planning_SeattleCityGIS
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Data First Published	2022-04-21
Data Last Modified	2025-04-09
Category	geospatial
Public Access Level	public
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License	https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/summary
Metadata Type	geospatial
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