Dataset
Building and Property Violations
Violations on Boston buildings or properties issued by inspectors from the Building and Structures Division of the Inspectional Services Department. **Note:** `property_id` is equivalent to `sam_id`. Looking for Public Works violations? Check out this dataset:…
Dataset
- Publisher
- Inspectional Services Department
- Spatial coverage
- all
- Fields
- 24
- Keywords
- building, buildings, code, inspectional services, inspections, permit, permits, properties, property, safety, structures
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/building-and-property-violations1
Artifacts
“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.
| Format | Preservation | Size | Digest | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSV | referenced | 4087188 | 0be3893e62e3ba74be48f59ea32eff287df7dac92f1c017144027b644dae51e6 | source |
Column dictionary
The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
case_no | text | |
ap_case_defn_key | text | |
status_dttm | text | |
status | text | |
code | text | |
value | text | |
description | text | |
violation_stno | text | |
violation_sthigh | text | |
violation_street | text | |
violation_suffix | text | |
violation_city | text | |
violation_state | text | |
violation_zip | text | |
ward | text | |
contact_addr1 | text | |
contact_addr2 | text | |
contact_city | text | |
contact_state | text | |
contact_zip | text | |
sam_id | text | |
latitude | text | |
longitude | text | |
location | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:building-and-property-violations1
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/building-and-property-violations1
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/building-and-property-violations1.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- building-and-property-violations1
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |