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LA Parks by District

All 493 city parks by district and neighborhood, with unioned acreage, size, population rates and half-mile access, with and without Griffith Park.

Source
City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks; County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation; U.S. Census Bureau; City of Los Angeles GeoHub
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493 park sites. CSV, column dictionary, licensing terms, SHA-256 manifest.
Files
  • la_parks_allagency_in_city_park_level.csv0.2 MB, 811 rows
  • la_parks_cd_panel.csv7 KB, 15 rows
  • la_parks_nc_panel.csv27 KB, 99 rows
  • la_parks_neighborhood_panel.csv28 KB, 114 rows
  • la_parks_rap_amenities_by_cd.csv2 KB, 15 rows
  • la_parks_rap_park_level.csv0.2 MB, 569 rows
  • lacounty_pna2016_study_areas.csv30 KB, 188 rows

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Columns in la_parks_allagency_in_city_park_level.csv

  • unit_id
  • park_name
  • access_type
  • open_access
  • agency_name
  • agency_level
  • agency_type
  • managing_agency
  • acres_reported_source
  • acres_gis_source_countywide
  • acres_gis_in_city
  • size_class
  • trails_mi
  • cd_primary
  • cd_primary_acres
  • n_districts_touched
  • cd_split_acres
  • nc_primary

The districts with the least park land are not the districts furthest from a park

City Recreation and Parks acreage per 1,000 residents, against the share of residents within a half mile of any open-access park

Acres per 1,000Within a half mile
5101520acres of city park per 1,000 residentswithin a half mileCD 4 Raman19.4168.8%CD 7 Rodriguez8.6876.2%CD 12 Lee7.8454.2%CD 6 Padilla6.3262.0%CD 11 Park5.2967.1%CD 1 Hernandez3.5497.6%CD 15 McOsker3.1392.8%CD 2 Nazarian1.9567.2%CD 14 Jurado1.7484.5%CD 13 Soto-Martinez1.4492.9%CD 5 Yaroslavsky1.4069.8%CD 3 Blumenfield0.9751.8%CD 9 Price0.4388.7%CD 10 Hutt0.3777.0%CD 8 Harris-Dawson0.3490.9%
Source: Basin Data, la-parks-by-district. Acreage is a geometric union, so parks inside other parks are not double counted. Access is straight-line distance and is therefore an upper bound.

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