New data tool aims to help residents ‘take back’ Kensington

Dated: April 7 2026

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Philadelphia has launched a new data dashboard for the city’s Kensington neighborhood as a way for residents to track progress on crime, vacant property remediation and other quality-of-life indicators. The city developed the dashboard as a pilot program for real-time, neighborhood-level data about a range of city services. It will be used by city officials and is meant to be accessible to residents, and officials envision business owners and developers using the dashboard to identify parts of the city that are prime for investment. Users can see a variety of data markers all in one place, including recent EMS incidents, the number of beds available at behavioral health treatment facilities, and the locations of everything from vacant properties to crossing guards. Another tab allows users to see where code violations are piling up, an especially pervasive issue in Kensington. Kristin Bray, the mayor’s chief legal counsel and the leader of the data initiative, said the next step will be creating dashboards for Philadelphia’s other neighborhoods, which she hopes to do this year.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer; 3/11/2026 

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