All responses to the community survey on perceptions of police and public safety run by the Somerville Department of Racial and Social Justice from September 2022 to March 2023 as part of the Public Safety for All program.

ESRI polygon feature class representing City of Somerville, Massachusetts fire response districts.

This data set encompasses calls for service from 2017 to present from the City of Somerville's Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system. It excludes routine or administrative tasks (like vehicle refueling), community engagement efforts, and other non-call-related activities.

All responses to the community survey on knowledge and utilization of ADA services as well as ADA areas of focus in the City by the Racial and Social Justice Department from February 2023 to June 2023.

The City of Somerville completed the first-ever Participatory Budgeting cycle in 2023. In Participatory Budgeting, residents submit ideas for how to improve Somerville with one million dollars; volunteers score and select the 20 best ideas; and residents vote on the final ideas.

This dataset describes the demographic characteristics of residents who submitted ideas. Residents could submit ideas through the Participatory Budgeting website. Submitters could optionally provide demographic information about themselves. Some submitters chose to identify themselves by name, while others remained anonymous. Demographic information is provided here in aggregated form, intentionally without a link to the individual ideas, to preserve privacy and anonymity.

Somerville Public Schools partnered with the City’s Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development to launch the Somerville Public Schools Workforce Transit Pass Pilot Program for Spring 2023. This program was funded thanks to the American Rescue Plan Act. The pilot program provided free MBTA LinkPasses to all SPS staff who signed up. Passes were good 7 days a week for unlimited travel on all MBTA subway lines, local bus lines, and the Silver Line. The goal of the pilot was to support staff, promote sustainable transit, ease parking pressure around schools, and evaluate use and interest in transit passes. This dataset includes anonymized travel data provided by the MBTA combined with select survey responses from the pilot intake survey.

The City of Somerville completed the first-ever Participatory Budgeting cycle in 2023. In Participatory Budgeting, residents submit ideas for how to improve Somerville with one million dollars; volunteers score and select the 20 best ideas; and residents vote on the final ideas.

This dataset describes the demographics and satisfaction of residents who voted on the best ideas. After voting for the final Participatory Budgeting ideas, voters were invited to an optional survey to voluntarily submit their demographic information and indicate their satisfaction with the Participatory Budgeting process. Demographics were not connected to votes to preserve anonymity. Open text comments have also been removed from the open dataset for privacy.

Somerville at a Glance is an introduction to Somerville's population, housing, education, home value and other demographic trends over time and compared to Massachusetts as a whole. The current version uses Census and ACS data from 2010 to 2022.

FY 2024 property tax parcels and related assessor's data as prepared for MassGIS using the MassGIS Level 3 GIS parcel standard.

This data set contains information on the yearly average of the number of jobs in Somerville since 2001. The data comes from the Massachusetts Department of Economic Research's Employment and Wage (ES-202) Reports. For more information, see https://lmi.dua.eol.mass.gov/lmi/EmploymentAndWages.