Dataset
CityScore
Provides metrics on overall city health based on work done across all facets of the City of Boston. For more information about CityScore, please refer to this link: https://www.boston.gov/cityscore
Dataset
- Publisher
- DoIT Data & Analytics
- Spatial coverage
- all
- Fields
- 17
- Keywords
- City services, dashboard, metrics, performance, public safety, public works, scores, targets
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/cityscore
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 | 113274 | 15a6481ac49d8ee01c78406a41e8b21519d137a4e5599f0eba38059d406f0f76 | source |
| CSV | referenced | 2530 | aae8796f5845a4747e4d80fcb3c0479215988e674d58ca673d31004de5083187 | source |
| CSV | referenced | 4533534 | 2e6d6a85082cf2eb6bcce76bf314abb94e54695224abfd5ba8aad2d6be94a59f | source |
| CSV | referenced | — | — | source |
| referenced | — | — | 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 |
|---|---|---|
metric_name | text | |
score_calculated_ts | timestamp | |
target | numeric | |
metric_logic | text | |
day_score | numeric | |
day_numerator | numeric | |
day_denominator | numeric | |
week_score | numeric | |
week_numerator | numeric | |
week_denominator | numeric | |
month_score | numeric | |
month_numerator | numeric | |
month_denominator | numeric | |
quarter_score | numeric | |
quarter_numerator | numeric | |
quarter_denominator | numeric | |
latest_score_flag | numeric |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:cityscore
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/cityscore
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/cityscore.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
- cityscore
- 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 |