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Community Data October 2026

NYC's pace of new open datasets fell from 274 a year to 78 after 2021

NYC made 274 new datasets public a year in 2018–2021 and 78 a year in 2022–2025, per the city's own Open Data asset inventory.

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NYC made about 274 new datasets public each year from 2018 to 2021, and 78 a year since

Datasets made public on NYC Open Data each year, 2011–2025 (bars), and the cumulative total (line), from the city's Local Law 251 asset inventory.

  • Datasets made public each year (left axis)
  • Cumulative total (right axis)
Source: NYC OTI, Local Law 251 of 2017: Published Data Asset Inventory (NYC Open Data) Note: Counts datasets by the year they were made public, for datasets still on the portal. 167 inventory rows with no date are excluded. 2026 through October 12: 27.

The Socrata catalog's own creation dates show the same peak and drop (287 to 306 a year in 2018–2021, 65 to 176 a year in 2022–2025). NYC Open Data lists 2,405 datasets as of October 12, 2026. Both sources count only datasets still on the portal; the made-public dates show the steeper drop (72%, against 60% on creation dates).

Sources: NYC OTI, Local Law 251 of 2017: Published Data Asset Inventory; NYC Open Data, What is Open Data.