All types of emergency medical dispatched incidents, fire dispatched incidents, such as, structure fires, vehicle fires, commercial fire alarms, and special operations incidents including hazardous materials, natural gas leaks, technical rescue calls, heavy extrication and aircraft incidents in the City of Mesa.

This dataset includes both Code Violations as determined by City of Mesa and reported complaints only, but no code violation found. This dataset does not include the status of the violation except to include the date the violation was closed. Individual up-to-date case status can be found at https://aca.accela.com/mesa/. Also includes violations that were voluntary complied with.

Included: Cases opened since Jan 1, 2005 (with one file per calendar year). These cases were found by a City of Mesa Code Officer to be in violation of one or more city or state codes and are denoted by a value of "N" in "Complaint Only" field. In 2005-2006, the City of Mesa employed 22 Code Officers. Since that time, the number of Code Officers has been reduced to 10.

Not Included: Commercial or Residential construction projects, Demolitions, Applications for Documents or Services, Planning Cases, or Engineering Projects.

Residential building permits issued by the City of Mesa.
Individual up-to-date permit status and other information can be found at http://aca.accela.com/Mesa
NOTES: Included: All single-family (SFR) and multi-family (MFR) residential building permits (NEW construction) applied for since January 1, 2003.
Not included: Commercial projects (other than the multi-family residential (MFR)), Demolitions, Applications for Documents or Services, Code Compliance Complaints, Planning Cases, or Engineering Projects.
Also does not include permits for remodeling or additions to residences.
It is assumed that all permits have been issued based on meeting all building and zoning codes.

Monthly electric consumption data in kWh within the City of Mesa's electric service territory broken down by Rate Classification (i.e. Residential, Commercial, Other Public Authority, Interdepartmental). Consumption totals are for the month in which they are billed to the customer (“Billing Month”). Due to the constant reading of utility meters throughout the month, much of the consumption occurs in the month prior to the Billing Month.

Monthly natural gas consumption data in Therms within the City of Mesa's natural gas service territory broken down by Rate Classification (i.e. Residential, Commercial, Other Public Authority, Interdepartmental)

Consumption totals are for the month in which they are billed to the customer (“Billing Month”). Due to the constant reading of utility meters throughout the month, much of the consumption occurs in the month prior to the Billing Month.

Breakdown of light rail ridership on a monthly basis per station in Mesa.

Based on initial police reports taken by officers when responding to incidents and comes from Police Records Management System (RMS). This data set has been modified for public use by obfuscating the address number through rounding it to the 100 block.  

Note that incidents reported here may not correlate with Police 911 Events dataset and other calls for Police service.

The City of Mesa does not wish to disclose information that is inflammatory in nature that impacts our citizens. It is also worth noting that crimes reported in this data set have not been adjudicated in a court of law for final determination.

Sensitive crimes will be listed but the address of their occurrence will NOT be included. In this way aggregate totals of crimes will be accurate, without providing sensitive information.

Addresses where the following crime types reported will NOT be included are: Sexual abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, Incest, Molestation of a child and Homicide.

Additionally, this information is provided through the CrimeReports website. This 3rd party website can be used to visually review crime data for Mesa and outlining areas.

Some of the data fields provided are used to report to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

For a listing of data fields and description please see their UCR Program Data Collections page. Alternatively, please see the Bureau of Justice Statistics NIBRS website for a listing of data fields.

Number of visits to the Mesa Arts Center, Arizona Museum of Natural History, and i.d.e.a. Museum. The term, visits refers to the number of distinct admissions to a program or facility. For example, if an individual were to attend a particular program on ten separate occasions this would be counted as ten visits. This is an industry term and is used for reporting internally at the City of Mesa as well as for external agencies that Arts and Culture is affiliated with.The three facilities represented by the dataset are the i.d.e.a. Museum, AzMNH (Arizona Museum of Natural History) and the MAC(Mesa arts center). Fiscal year Specifies fiscal year by the two year designation e.g. 2009/2010. The City of Mesa fiscal year for all departments is from July 1 - June 30.

All call data dispatched to Mesa Police or observed by on site officers. Note that these are calls for service and may not necessarily correspond to the data located in the Police Incidents dataset.

Confirmed cases of opioid overdose, locations are not actual but instead rounded to approximately 1/3 mile increments. Opioid overdose confirmed by 1) patient or witness verification, 2) Opioid found on scene or 3) positive response to Narcan treatment. For more information on opioid drugs see https://www.drugabuse.gov/drugs-abuse/opioids