Every two years, the City of Somerville sends the Somerville Happiness Survey to a random sample of Somerville residents. The survey asks residents to rate their personal happiness, wellbeing, and satisfaction with City services. This combined dataset includes random-sample survey results from 2011 to 2023, including all 2023 questions with applicable responses from previous years. A data dictionary, exploratory visualization, and survey instruments are attached.

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.

All responses to the Citizenserve Applicant Feedback Survey, which asked respondents to rate their experience with the Citizenserve platform and overall application process in Somerville. The survey was offered to permit and license applicants in Somerville who had submitted an application through the Citizenserve platform between 7/1/2023 and 11/30/2023. Responses were recorded from 12/8/2023 to 12/29/2023.

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.

This data set contains Somerville crashes that occurred from May 2018 to present. Crash reports are completed when a motor vehicle crash occurs on a public way and involves at least one of the following: Any person is killed, any person is injured, or damage is in excess of $1,000 to any one vehicle or other property. Data does not include crashes that are under active investigation, nor those that occur on state roads, which are under the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts State Police. State crash data may be accessed on the Massachusetts Department of Transportation’s crash data portal, IMPACT.

This data set should be refreshed daily with data appearing with a one-month delay (e.g. crashes that occurred from 1/1 will appear on 2/1). If a daily update does not refresh, please email data@somervillema.gov.

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.

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

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.

Voters could choose and rank up to 5 ideas out of the 20 selected final ideas. This dataset provides the number of votes in each rank slot for each of the final ideas.

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.