Food Establishment Inspections

Inspectional Services Department, City of Boston
The Health Division of the Department of Inspectional Services ensures that all food establishments in the City of Boston meet relevant sanitary codes and standards. Businesses that serve food are inspected at least once a year, and follow-up inspections are performed on high risk establishments. Health inspections are also conducted in response to complaints of unsanitary conditions or illness. This is a legacy dataset containing records of individual inspections and results.
Data Format CSV
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Download Url Validated True
Validation Message Valid content type: application/octet-stream
Alternate Download Urls https://data.boston.gov/datastore/dump/4582bec6...
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/food-establishm...
Update Frequency Daily
Last Updated Unknown
Geospatial Bounds -71.1742,42.2314,-70.9967,42.3952
Portal Type ckan
Success True
Quality Score
100%
Usable
Yes
Total Rows
803,735
Valid Geometries
803,735 / 803,735

Schema Compliance

Geometry Type Point
CRS {"$schema": "https://proj.org/schemas/v0.7/projjso...
WGS84 Yes
Required Columns Yes

Spatial Bounds

SW: (-71.1742, 42.2314)
NE: (-70.9967, 42.3952)

Column Completeness

Column Completeness
id 100.0%
names 100.0%
categories 100.0%
operating_status 100.0%
addresses 100.0%
phones 100.0%
websites 100.0%
socials 100.0%
emails 100.0%
sources 100.0%
source_properties 100.0%

Top Categories

restaurant (803,735)

Issues

Overture Comparison

restaurant (auto-inferred)
Candidate POIs
803,735
Overture POIs
489

H3 Cell Coverage (res 10)

Candidate Cells 1,513
Overture Cells 403
Overlapping 231
Candidate Only 1,282
Overture Only 172

Coverage Ratios

Overlap Ratio
15.3%
Unique Coverage
84.7%

Density Statistics

Mean Max Min
Candidate 531.22 9,645 1
Overture 1.21 5 1