Data Reference Layers Categories
Reference data layers are organized into the categories listed below. The availability of reference data varies based on your organization and project location, but you have over 200 layers available.
Here are descriptions of each category, with additional details about the ones we've developed for Resilience Insights.
Administrative Boundaries – Includes jurisdictional boundaries, census boundaries, congressional districts, school districts, and traffic analysis zones (TAZs).
Conservation – Includes Core Habitat Areas and Marine Protected Areas nationally and additional conversation layers, such as soil carbon and land cover, in California.
Education – Includes public and private schools, colleges, universities, and daycare centers.
Environment & Land Cover – Includes data describing environmental conditions or environmentally sensitive areas, such as critical habitat, wetlands, hydrography, terrestrial ecoregions, watersheds, and wildlife corridors. Data availability varies from state to state.
Equity & Environmental Justice – Includes data describing existing land use or demographic conditions relevant to equity and environmental justice analysis and federal and other designations used for equitable planning and implementation.
Health – Includes locations of healthcare facilities as well as public health data.
Infrastructure – Includes locations of energy-related infrastructure.
Land use – Includes building footprints, points of interest, and reference data for the parcel canvas.
Parks & Open Space – Includes parks, open space, and conservation easements.
Resilience Insights – Includes Location Insights, Climate & Hazard Insights, and Community Insights. See Resilience Insights Layers for details.
Risk & Resilience – Includes hazard layers at their native resolution. See Risk & Resilience Data Layers for additional details.
Socio-Demographic – Includes census socio-demographic information in individual layers.
Transport & Circulation – Includes infrastructure data for all forms of transportation, including public transit, active transportation, roads, rail, ports, and airports. It also includes household transportation survey data.
Urban Air Mobility / Airspace – Includes airport runways, airspace classes, air traffic routes, flight restrictions, and other airspace-related datasets.