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City Data APIs

About city data APIs

Individuals can gain a lot of insight from a city API. These platforms often specialize in specific data types. Therefore, selecting the correct API ensures researchers and other individuals have access to the information they need. Unique city data may cover various data types, including population, demographics, education, school districts, hospitals, health and wellness and more.

Who benefits from a city data API?

Plenty of people can use the data extracted from these APIs. For instance, many travel agencies will use the information in these APIs to help travelers plan and effectively manage their trips. The city data APIs provides detailed information regarding cities, airports and airlines available in that region. Additionally, you may get information about time zones, attractions and restaurants in the area.

Realtors use several cities API information to stay informed on available rental properties, prices and mortgage rates in the area. These are powerful tools that can help realtors and their clients negotiate fair housing rates based on local averages.

Some city API data may contain crime and security information. In particular, families often want access to this information to ensure that the neighborhood they're moving to is relatively safe for their children. More detailed information in this category may dictate what police forces respond to calls in the area, how close the nearest fire department is and the nearest hospital or emergency room location. Additionally, these cities' APIs may also include information on average emergency response time, allowing families to make educated decisions when moving.

Why is having a city data API important?

An educated community is a community that effectively and efficiently functions. As mentioned above, there are several uses for the data from these APIs. However, local governments may also use the data from these APIs for personal tracking purposes. This information can help cities plan for road closures, expanding city and state support services and understand the city's demographics.

One way local governments can use the data from these APIs is through population tracking. APIs may contain information regarding the demographics of a city, including languages spoken. Once they have analyzed this data, cities can know when it is appropriate to provide translation services at local and regional events. These services can be vital to educating and supporting minorities and non-native residents.

Lastly, city officials may use these APIs to examine areas of poverty throughout their city. Data and figures on income and poverty levels on a local and neighborhood level help cities better plan how to assist and improve the city's struggling regions.

What type of APIs are available for cities?

There are several free or affordable APIs that target city-specific information based on your industry. Realty Mole Property, for example, provides real-estate information for cities across the world. CityBikes, an API focused on bike-sharing, includes information on cities with bike-share programs and available bike rentals. Lastly, World Geo Data provides administrative information, allowing city officials to access critical information to make proper executive decisions.

Best City Data APIs

  1. GeoDB Cities
  2. IP Geo Location
  3. Realty Mole Property
  4. City Geo-Location Lookup
  5. Redline Zipcode
  6. World Cities
  7. boundaries-io
  8. Countries Cities

City Data APIs SDKs

All city data APIs are supported and made available in multiple developer programming languages and SDKs including:

  1. Node.js
  2. PHP
  3. Python
  4. Ruby
  5. Objective-C
  6. Java (Android)
  7. C# (.NET)
  8. cURL

Just select your preference from any API endpoints page.

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GeoDB Cities
Get global city, region, and country data. Filter and display results in multiple languages.
Updated 11 months ago
RedLine Zipcode
The Zip Code API provides the following functions: Distance Between Zip Code API - The API allows you to quickly and easily figure out the distance between zip codes.Zip Codes in Radius API - You can use this API to find all zip codes within a given radius from another zip code.Zip Code to City and State API and Zip Code to Latitude/Longitude API - The API can convert a zip code to the primary location for the zip code. This includes the city, state, latitude, and longitude for the primary location.City to Zip Code - This API looks up the Zip Code based on the City and State.
Updated 11 months ago
boundaries-io
US Zipcode, County, City, and State Boundaries API: A simple & very fast API that will allow you to integrate multiple GeoJson US boundaries results into your apps and systems. This API is designed to be used programatically for optimal performance. When using the MashApe UI for queries expect significant latency issues on large result sets!
Updated 2 days ago
World Cities
Get a list of cities that match a search criteria. Results in JSON and include city, state and country. Search criteria is also applied to states and countries. Optionally, provide a "searchby" parameter that can be one of "city", "state" or "country" to narrow the results.
Updated 11 months ago
IATACodes
Global Aviation Data API
Updated 11 months ago
IP Geo Location
API returns location data such as country, city, latitude, longitude, timezone, asn, currency, security data for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in JSON or XML formats.
Updated 11 months ago
Realty Mole Property
(API Shut Down 3/1/2025) Get instant access to 140+ million property records, owner details, home value and rent estimates, active listings and rental market statistics with the Realty Mole real estate data API. Available nationwide in the US.
Updated 3 months ago
Countries Cities
Provides geo location and information about countries and cities
Updated 11 months ago
World Geo Data
Get detailed information about countries, cities, administrative regions and search for the cities near by.
Updated 11 months ago
IP2Location IP Geolocation Web Service
IP2Location web service provides reverse lookup of an IP address to an ISO3166 country code, region or state, city, latitude and longitude, ZIP/Postal code, time zone, ISP, net speed, area code, weather station code, weather station name, mobile carrier data, elevation, usage type, address type and IAB category.Visit https://www.ip2location.com/web-service for more info.
Updated 11 months ago
STD Codes - India
Find an STD Code of any City or State of India OR find the location of any STD Code.
Updated 11 months ago
Chicmi Local Fashion
Chicmi are mapping out the fashion scene in the world's fashion cities, starting with London, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Manchester. Use the Chicmi API to access our unique set of fashion data, including every fashion sale, sample sale, fashion exhibition and fashion event in each city.
Updated 11 months ago