Code for Dayton
OpenDayton · a Code for Dayton project

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answered from public data.

OpenDayton connects AI assistants like Claude to curated open data from the City of Dayton and Montgomery County: crime and 911 calls, housing conditions, lead water lines, trash pickup, capital projects, property records, and more. Answers cite the agency that published the data.

17City & regional datasets
9County property record tables
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OpenDayton is an MCP server. Add this address to your AI assistant:

https://opendayton.org/mcp

Claude.ai & Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, name it OpenDayton, and paste the address above.

Claude Code

Run this in your terminal:

claude mcp add --transport http opendayton https://opendayton.org/mcp

Other MCP clients

Anything that speaks MCP over Streamable HTTP can point at the address. No API key needed.

Things to ask

Once connected, ask in plain English. Click a question to copy it.

About an address

Neighborhoods & public safety

Housing & property

City spending & services

Tip: for address questions, include a street address in Dayton. The assistant looks up the parcel and checks what's nearby.

What's inside

Every dataset is one its publisher already shares with the public. OpenDayton only reads what's listed here.

Neighborhoods & reference

Dayton Neighborhood Population (2020 and 2010 Census)

Total population of each of Dayton's 65 neighborhoods from the 2020 and 2010 Censuses, apportioned from census blocks to the neighborhood boundaries.

City of Dayton Planning, Neighborhoods & Development~65 recordsneighborhood_populationsource ↗

Dayton Neighborhoods

Boundaries of Dayton's 65 official neighborhoods and the Priority Board (planning district) each belongs to.

City of Dayton Planning, Neighborhoods & Development~65 recordsneighborhoodssource ↗

Public Facilities

Schools, colleges, libraries, recreation centers, fire stations, and other public facilities in Dayton, with type and address.

City of Dayton~171 recordspublic_facilitiessource ↗

Public safety

Police Arrests

Arrests by Dayton Police with charge, charge level, neighborhood, and arrestee demographics as categories.

Dayton Police Department~50,000 recordsarrestssource ↗

Police Calls for Service

911 and officer-initiated calls for police service: dispatch type, priority, response time, day/hour, district, and neighborhood.

Dayton Police Department~26,000 recordscalls_for_servicesource ↗

Police Crime Incidents (NIBRS)

Reported crime incidents in Dayton coded to the FBI NIBRS standard, with offense category, Ohio Revised Code section, neighborhood, police district, weapon, and victim characteristics (as age bands).

Dayton Police Department~52,000 recordscrimessource ↗

Police Use of Force Incidents

Internal-affairs records of police use-of-force incidents: type of force, reason, injuries, investigation status and disposition, and citizen demographics as categories.

Dayton Police Department (Professional Standards Bureau)~1,260 recordsuse_of_forcesource ↗

Housing

City of Dayton Owned Parcels

Parcels owned by the City of Dayton with the responsible department, intended use, whether there is a structure, and whether it is for sale or in the vacant lot program.

City of Dayton~1,926 recordscity_owned_parcelssource ↗

City-Supported Housing Projects

Housing projects the City funded or supported: program, funding source, affordability level, tenure, project type, number of units, and location.

City of Dayton Planning, Neighborhoods & Development~376 recordshousing_projectssource ↗

Housing Condition Survey 2025 (with 2023 grades)

Every parcel in Dayton with the exterior condition grade from the City's 2025 windshield survey, the 2023 grade in the same row, occupancy status, and per-defect flags (roof, siding, porch, …).

City of Dayton Planning, Neighborhoods & Development~88,922 recordshousing_condition_2025source ↗

Infrastructure & services

City Service Requests (Dayton Delivers)

Every service request residents filed through Dayton Delivers in the last 90 days: what was reported, which department owns it, the neighborhood, when it was opened and closed, and how it was resolved.

City of Dayton~18,900 recordsservice_requestssource ↗

Lead Service Line Inventory

The water service line at each address: material on the utility side and the customer side, whether it is or was ever lead, verification status, replacement status and priority tier, building type, and whether the address is a sensitive population (school, day care) or in a disadvantaged area.

City of Dayton Department of Water~64,493 recordslead_service_linessource ↗

Storm Drains (Adopt-A-Drain)

City storm drain inlets with their address, lifecycle status, and Adopt-A-Drain adoption status.

City of Dayton Department of Water~22,496 recordsstorm_drainssource ↗

Trash Pickup Days

Trash collection route areas with the pickup day.

City of Dayton Public Works~232 recordstrash_pickupsource ↗

Capital projects & spending

ARPA Community Project Applications

Community project applications to the City's American Rescue Plan Act (Dayton Recovery Plan) funding, with applicant organization, location, total project cost, and funding requested.

City of Dayton~329 recordsarpa_projectssource ↗

Active Capital Improvement Projects

City capital projects currently in design or construction: name, description, type (Water, Sewer, Street, Facility, …), fiscal year, funding source, planned dates, phase, and construction cost.

City of Dayton Department of Public Works~41 recordscip_activesource ↗

Completed Capital Improvement Projects

Completed City capital projects with type, fiscal year, funding, and cost.

City of Dayton Department of Public Works~295 recordscip_completedsource ↗

County property records SQL database

Montgomery County property records

Countywide parcel-level records from the Montgomery County Auditor and Treasurer: the current tax roll (one row per parcel with values, tenure flags, delinquency, foreclosure, and census tract), the delinquent list, every recorded property transfer since 2001 (2003-2010 not published), and the Auditor's CAMA assessment extract (dwelling characteristics, building permits back to the 1990s, apartment unit counts). Queried with SQL; countywide, so answers can be filtered to the City of Dayton.

Montgomery County Auditor and Treasurercama_apartmentcama_codescama_dwellingcama_parcelcama_permitdelinquentnbhd_codessalestaxrollsource ↗
Files as of 2026-09-30, 2026-10-01, 2026-10-02, 2026-10-03

For developers

The tools the server exposes. Queries are validated against each dataset's field allowlist and are row-capped. Also: /datasets.json · /health

  • list_datasets — What exists, by theme
  • describe_dataset — Fields, coded values, caveats, live record count
  • arcgis_query — Rows from a City dataset
  • arcgis_stats — Server-side counts, sums, and averages
  • county_schema — Tables and columns of the County database
  • county_sql — One read-only SELECT against County records
  • geocode — Address or parcel ID → parcel and coordinates