Neighborhood Data API - Location Scores and Demographics

Score any US or Canadian address on 18 measures of what it is actually like to live there, then pull the neighborhood, city and metro area around it.

What this actor does

• 18 location scores per address. Walkability, cycling, transit and car friendliness, groceries, shopping, cafes, restaurants, nightlife, primary and high schools, daycares, quiet, historic character, vibrancy, parks, greenery and wellness, each on a 0 to 5 scale with the provider's own plain-English explanation.
• Coordinate to geography. Turn a latitude and longitude into the neighborhood, borough, city, ZIP or postal code, county, region and metro area that contain it, with centroids, bounding boxes, areas and optional boundary polygons.
• Neighborhood profiles. Written summaries of a neighborhood's character, housing stock and services, in English or French.
• Demographics. Income, commute mode, household composition, education, tenure and more, around a point or for a whole area.
• Schools and places nearby. Every school with its level, grades, languages, programs, type and school board, and every point of interest with its categories, brands, tags and straight-line distance.
• Market statistics, value drivers and similar neighborhoods. Residential market readings by property type, the location factors that move value in an area, and the areas most like it.
• Pay per result. You are charged for rows that carry a real record. Locations the provider has no data for are free.

Bring your own key

This actor signs in with your own client id and client secret. Paste them into the input, or set the secret as DATA_API_KEY. Nothing runs on anyone else's credentials, and a run without them ends cleanly with an explanation rather than failing.

Example output

{
  "recordType": "location-scores",
  "requested": "41.847206, -87.668825",
  "found": true,
  "geographyId": "g30_f25dv0me",
  "geographyName": "Westmount",
  "geographyLevelType": "municipality",
  "scoresReturned": 18,
  "averageScore": 3.61,
  "pedestrian_friendly": 4.5,
  "transit_friendly": 4.5,
  "car_friendly": 2.5,
  "groceries": 4,
  "restaurants": 4.5,
  "nightlife": 3.5,
  "primary_schools": 4,
  "parks": 3.5,
  "quiet": 1
}

FAQ

What is a location score?

A location score rates one spot on one aspect of neighborhood quality, from 0 to 5, relative to the provider's whole coverage area. Eighteen are published, grouped into transportation, amenities, education, character, nature and wellness. A score that is missing means the provider has too little information about that location, not that it scored zero, so the actor stores it as empty rather than as 0.

How do I get a geography id?

Run the actor in "Geographies at a coordinate" mode with a latitude and longitude. It returns every area that contains that point, each with its geographyId, from neighborhood up to country. Feed those ids into the profile, market statistics, value drivers and similar neighborhoods modes, which describe an area rather than a point.

What areas does this cover?

The United States and Canada, at address level, across more than 250 million addresses. Neighborhood and macro-neighborhood boundaries exist in both countries. A few measures are narrower: historic character covers a handful of cities, and greenery covers about ten.

Can I score a list of addresses?

Yes. Put one latitude, longitude pair per line in the coordinates field and the actor scores each one, pacing the requests for you. Turn off "Round scores to the nearest half point" when you are ranking addresses against each other, otherwise close calls collapse onto the same value.

What is the difference between scores and snapshot?

Scores returns the 18 measures for the point and, if you ask, for the areas around it. Snapshot returns the scores for the point plus demographics, a count of nearby places by category, and the underlying distance and access measures such as nearest grocery store proximity and traffic noise, all in one row.

What does it cost?

Pricing is pay per result: 0.01 USD per location, geography, profile, demographics, market statistics, value driver or similar neighborhood record, and 0.004 USD per school or point of interest, with Apify platform usage included. Rows the provider had no data for are not charged. You also need your own agreement with the data provider, which bills separately.

Does the actor fail if my credentials are wrong?

No. Missing credentials, rejected credentials, a dataset that is not part of your agreement, or an empty input all end the run cleanly with a message saying what to change. Only a real outage or a bug fails the run.

Keyword map

neighborhood data API, location scores API, walkability score API, walk score alternative, transit score, neighborhood profile API, real estate location intelligence, demographics API by coordinate, school data API, points of interest API, POI data API, neighborhood boundaries API, geography lookup by latitude longitude, housing market statistics API, similar neighborhoods, US and Canada location data, address quality of life score, MLS listing enrichment, proptech data API