Everything that serves or governs a location, in one call.

Returns city council district and representative, county commissioner, CMPD patrol division, first-due fire station, trash/recycling/yard-waste days, zoning, FEMA flood zone, historic district, ZIP code, and tax parcel ID.

Find an address in Mecklenburg County's official master address list.

Returns matches with coordinates, tax parcel ID, municipality, and ZIP code.

Garbage, recycling, and yard-waste collection days for an address in Charlotte.

CMPD police incident reports near a location: counts by offense and the latest reports.

Answers "is there much crime near 123 Main St?" or "any car break-ins near me lately?".

Citywide CMPD incident counts grouped by offense, division, year, or neighborhood.

Use group_by='year' with an offense filter for trends, e.g. robberies per year since 2017.

Reported traffic crashes near a location, with counts by severity.

Useful for "is this intersection dangerous?" or traffic-calming requests.

311 service requests reported near a location, with counts by request type.

Shows whether a problem (pothole, missed pickup, dumping, streetlight) was already reported.

Housing and neighborhood code enforcement cases at or near an address.

Covers nuisance (junk, overgrown lots), minimum housing, zoning, graffiti, and parking violations. Useful for renters, buyers, and neighbors.

Street and lane closures and detours published by CDOT, citywide or near a location.

City capital projects (roads, sidewalks, parks, facilities) near a location.

Includes phase, schedule, budget, and the project manager's contact information.

Rezoning petitions currently in process, citywide or near a location.

Shows the petitioner, existing and requested zoning, acreage, and a link to the petition.

Nearest public places of one type, sorted by straight-line distance.

Categories include libraries, public schools, parks, greenways, fire and police stations, post offices, pharmacies, grocery stores, medical facilities, child care, EV chargers, park-and-ride lots, light rail stations, bus stops, YMCAs, places of worship, and public Wi-Fi. Bus stop IDs can be used with CATS real-time arrival services.

CATS bus routes with scheduled frequency (minutes between buses) by time of day.

For stops near an address use find_nearby_places with category 'bus_stop'.

City of Charlotte budget totals for a fiscal year by department, fund, or expense type.

Pay statistics for City of Charlotte employees: head count and annual pay rates.

Aggregated by department or job title for one quarter (the latest by default); individual employees are not listed.

Search the Charlotte Open Data Portal catalog (about 380 datasets) by keyword.

Use this to find data the purpose-built tools don't cover. Pass a result's layer_url to describe_dataset, query_dataset, or summarize_dataset.

Show a dataset layer's description, record count, and fields.

Call this before query_dataset or summarize_dataset to learn field names and types.

Fetch records from any portal dataset layer with a SQL filter, optionally near a place.

Count or aggregate any portal dataset server-side, grouped by up to three fields.

Answers questions like "how many 311 requests of each type were made in ZIP 28205?". Rows are sorted by the statistic, largest first, in a column named stat_value.