Data Features
Interactive infographics, real-time data feeds, and annual reports on important environmental health topics.
Interactives
Rats in your neighborhood
What’s going on with rats in your neighborhood, what’s being done to fight them, and how can you help?
Find out here. Enter an address to …
Real-Time Air Quality: PM2.5 in NYC
Fine particles (PM2.5) are among the most harmful pollutants. Long-term exposure to PM2.5 contributes to an estimated 2,000 excess deaths from lung …
Interactive Heat Vulnerability Index
Hot weather is dangerous. In New York City – and across the country – more people die from heat than from all other natural disasters combined. As our …
Rat Mitigation Zones
Rats can contaminate food, spread disease and reduce our quality of life. Rat Mitigation Zones (RMZ) are areas with high levels of rat activity, where …
Real-time heat-related illness
The weather forecast is the best way to predict heat-related health outcomes.
We can also track heat-related illness with near real-time electronic …
Your Neighborhood's Air Quality
We combine data from our air quality monitoring network, NYCCAS, with other data to understand what makes air quality in one neighborhood different …
Reports
Rat Mitigation Zone Report: January 2024 to June 2024
2024 NYC Heat-Related Mortality Report
The New York City Community Air Survey
Portals
Rat Information Portal
New York City’s Rat Information Portal is a web map application that lets you view rat inspection and action data collected by the NYC Health Department.
Displacement Risk
Housing stability creates health, but in NYC, many people have difficulty accessing healthy, stable housing. In some neighborhoods, residents at are higher risk of being …
Beach Water Quality
One month before New York City’s beaches open to the public, the Health Departments starts sampling and monitoring beaches. Sampling provides data about current water quality …