SafeGraph
Esri uses location and business content supplied and licensed by SafeGraph to create ArcGIS Places datasets for Canada, Puerto Rico, and the United States.
Esri's places datasets sourced from SafeGraph's content provide information about locations where consumers can spend money, time, or both. These include businesses such as restaurants, grocery stores, parking lots, malls, parks, hospitals, museums, and more. The datasets contain approximately 1.17 million points of interest in Canada, 109,000 in Puerto Rico, and more than 19 million points of interest in the United States.
Visit Introduction to ArcGIS Places for more information about how you can access and use these datasets in Esri products and ArcGIS Places data methodology for information about how these datasets are created.
Release date and vintage
The November 2026 release uses vintage July 2026 data from SafeGraph.
Note:
See Data sources, vintages, and update frequency in the Introduction to ArcGIS Places topic for more information.
Update frequency
Three times per year.
Location accuracy
The ArcGIS Places datasets sourced from SafeGraph use point data derived from latitude and longitude coordinates for Canada, Puerto Rico, and the United States.
Attributes
Esri's ArcGIS Places datasets sourced from content supplied by SafeGraph include the following attributes:
| Attribute | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Location Name | The name by which the location is known or under which it conducts business. | Acme Business |
| Brand Name | Any brand name affiliated with the location, when applicable. | Famous Sports |
| NAICS Code | The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code affiliated with the location, when applicable. For standard government NAICS code definitions, see the NAICS website. Esri's SafeGraph attributes use NAICS 2022. | 451110 |
| NAICS Description | The description of the NAICS 2022 code affiliated with the location. | Sporting Goods Stores |
| NAICS Sector | Provided by Esri and based on the first two digits of the NAICS code; indicates the general economic activity category of the business. | Retail Trade |
| Esri Category | An Esri-created six-character code representing a standardized classification system that groups locations together based on common attributes. | SE1150 |
| Esri Category Description | A description of the Esri Category code. | Cafeterias & Buffets |
| Open Hours | The hours that the location is open for business, sorted by day of the week in 24-hour format. It includes open 24 hours, open 7 days a week, extended opening, and extended closing hours. | "Mon": [["09:00", "18:30"]] |
| Address | The street address of the location. | 123 Main Street |
| City | The town or municipality of the location. | Springfield |
| Province/Region/State | The state, province, territory, or equivalent for the location. | Alberta |
| Postal Code/ZIP code | The postcode (Forward Sortation Area/FSA, ZIP code, or Local Delivery Unit/LDU) assigned to the location address. | A1A 1A1 |
| Location Parent | The primary (or core) business for a location when there are multiple locations at the same address. For example, when a coffee shop is located inside a grocery store, the grocery store is the location parent. | Briar Creek Commons |
| Corporate Parent Name | An Esri-created value that identifies the largest retail companies in the U.S. by sales volume. Includes subsidiary chains and child companies of the retailer. This attribute is only available for locations in the United States. | The Kroger Co. |
| Source | The primary data source from which the location record is derived; the source is always SafeGraph. | SafeGraph |
| Esri ID | A 32-character unique identifier of the location, assigned by Esri; this identifier is perpetual over time. | 41b3ec3348a2315f-7e41a93af2efeabb |
| Place ID | A unique identifier of the location, assigned by SafeGraph. | zzy-222@96m-hp4-xyv; 222-223@96y-x49-kj9 |
Data notes
The following information may help you understand how Esri creates the ArcGIS Places datasets sourced from data supplied by SafeGraph:
Esri datasets sourced from data supplied by SafeGraph contain the business attributes that Esri is licensed to provide to customers within Esri software. This does not include every attribute available on SafeGraph's platform.
Several attributes—including Location Parent, NAICS Sector, and Corporate Parent Name—are derived by Esri from SafeGraph source fields and are not directly distributed by the vendor.
Before each release, the data goes through an Esri quality check to remove business records that do not meet requirements. These include records with missing attributes, spatial issues—such as missing coordinates or locations outside geographic boundaries, or records flagged by SafeGraph as permanently closed.
See the ArcGIS Places data methodology for more information about how these datasets are created and the Frequently asked questions about ArcGIS Places for answers to some of the most common questions about the differences between these datasets.