GIS Raster Layer

Zoning Rasters

30x30 meter grid cells that standardize residential and nonresidential uses for high-level analysis, planning, and data integration.

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Built for
Data Integration
Quickly overlay which residential and nonresidential uses are allowed against your own data.
City and Regional Planning
Inform high-level planning decisions about siting, growth, infrastructure investments, and more, with standardized data.
Environmental Analysis
Examine how allowed uses overlay with flood zones, fire hazard severity zones, areas with heat exposure, tree canopy coverage, topography, and more.
Land Use Research
Explore how zoning rules shape development patterns, land conservation, and environmental quality in different places.

Zoning Rasters reveal the future of our places.

Zoning Rasters offer a standardized overview of the types of residential and nonresidential uses allowed in a given geography, in raster format. Existing land-use datasets may measure urban intensity on the ground today — but not what's buildable there. Zoning Rasters fill that gap.

At 30x30m resolution, our Zoning Rasters show how zoning permits certain land uses. They capture allowable housing density and 14 nonresidential use classifications — from retail and office to industrial, institutional, and commercial space — along with unzoned land, water surfaces, and protected lands. The result is a land use regulation classification layer that integrates with existing geospatial environments.

Product Specifications

Coverage

Over 1.4 billion acres

Available for purchase by jurisdiction, county, CBSA, or state on this website; contact us for purchase by CBSA, state, or region, or for national coverage.

Unit of Analysis

30x30 meter raster cells

Rasters classifying general uses (7 classes), residential uses (15 classes), and nonresidential uses (32 classes) are available through this website; contact us for Zoning Rasters with a different classification scheme or resolution.

What's Included

A map of allowable land uses

Your choice of one of three zoning rasters classifying general residential and nonresidential uses (7 classes), residential density categories (15 classes), or nonresidential use categories (32 classes), as further defined in our data dictionary.

A license to use delivered information internally; for external or display purposes, contact us for a custom license.

Format

Analysis-ready files

GeoTIFF
See for yourself

Explore the data before you buy.

Check out our data dictionary for general, residential, or nonresidential uses to see every regulation we collect, how we code them, and how they’re defined.

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General Residential Nonresidential
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Our products

Not sure if Zoning Rasters are the right fit?

We make five data products built for analyzing zoning, each designed for a different question, scale, and workflow. Explore them here.

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