York Open Data was launched in March 2015. It offers residents and businesses free access to a wealth of information about their city, to help to build new products, understanding and solutions to all kinds of challenges such as those around sustainability, transport, energy and community engagement.
Local Government Transparency Code related data is stored in the platform, such as:
- members' allowances and members' travel
- all payments to suppliers
- senior officers' expenses and salary data
- fraud
- grants to voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations
- local authority land
- chief officer's remuneration
- Officer’s Gift and Hospitality Register
- parking report
- pay policy
- social housing asset value
- trade union facility time
Other data you may freely use from our website under the terms of the Open Government Licence is:
- freedom of information details - a list of Freedom of Information requests we've received and the outcomes or responses
- Officer Declaration of Interests policy - revised interim changes to the policy. View the Chief Officer Declaration of Interests
Open data sets and formats
The datasets are presented in different formats, such as:
- geospatial formats - that can be previewed on a map
- table-like formats - csv and xls/Excel files that allow data to be filtered and analysed
Most datasets are shared under the Open Government Licence which entitles you to make use of data freely.
There is a York Open Data User Guide available to help you use the platform and the data it hosts.
Get involved with York Open Data
York Open Data is and has been a core element to a number of wider research projects funded by bodies such as the UK Research and Innovation.
Get in touch with our Business Intelligence Hub via email: business.intelligence@york.gov.uk or fill in the contact form available in the Frequently Asked Questions section of York Open Data if you're interested in being involved with York Open Data, developing a research project based on data or if there is any specific data that you are interested in and that City of York Council may hold, and is not currently available on York Open Data.
If requesting data, please bear in mind that data on York Open Data can’t include any personal details and that needs to be produced in a machine readable format, for example, spreadsheets rather than PDF. Business Intelligence will then contact you back in order to assess the feasibility of your request and get further details such as update frequency for the data and temporal coverage.