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Restaurant inspection open-data portals

Where to download restaurant inspection data, city by city, and which datasets have quietly stopped updating. Dates checked September 17, 2026.

By Food Inspection Data editorsPublished September 17, 2026Sources checked September 17, 2026

Many health departments publish their restaurant inspections as open data, but portals do not announce when a dataset stops updating. This directory lists the city, county and state inspection datasets we found and the date each was last updated, as shown by its portal on September 17, 2026. Datasets that say they have stopped, or have not changed in a year or more, are listed separately.

Datasets updating as of September 2026

Frozen or not recently updated

"Frozen" means the portal itself says the dataset will not be updated. "No recent update" means only that the timestamp is old; the publisher may still resume, or may have moved the data elsewhere.

Dallas and San Francisco both now direct people to a restaurant lookup hosted by a software vendor rather than to a live bulk dataset, according to their dataset descriptions.

Cities we checked that have no bulk dataset we could find

• Philadelphia, PA. The city's food safety report page offers a search tool at pa.healthinspections.us/philadelphia and says reports from "the past three years" can be reviewed. We did not find a downloadable inspection dataset on the city's open-data catalog.
• Houston, TX has a portal entry (listed above as frozen) but no inspection files after fiscal year 2015.

Before you use any of these

• Read the dataset description. Scope rules hide there: New York includes only active restaurants; Los Angeles County's covers three fiscal years; Delaware's covers two years.
• Check the unit of a row. New York's has one row per violation, Chicago's one per inspection with violations packed into a text column.
• Check what the numbers mean in that jurisdiction before comparing: why scores do not compare.
• Older directories of these datasets exist, such as the US City Open Data Census food safety page, but its entries date from 2014 to 2017.

This list is not complete; it covers the datasets we could find and verify. We recheck the dates and update this page with a new check date.