Explore Baltimore building permits, police report data, and R-8 zoning in Oldtown, a neighborhood south of Johnston Square and east of Penn-Fallsway.
Search this neighborhoodOldtown is a Baltimore neighborhood with about 2,500 residents and about 1,100 housing units. Johnston Square and Penn-Fallsway lie to its north, Pleasant View Gardens, Jonestown and Dunbar-Broadway to the south, Gay Street and Dunbar-Broadway to the east, and Penn-Fallsway to the west. Nathaniel McFadden Park, a 1.3-acre neighborhood park, is inside the boundary, along with the City of Baltimore Fire Museum, the Oldtown Fire Station, the Institute of Notre Dame and the Paul Laurence Dunbar High School Stadium.
Half of Oldtown, by area, is zoned R-8 Rowhouse and Multi-Family Residential, with C-2 Commercial covering about a third and R-10 Rowhouse and Multi-Family Residential another eighth. MTA Routes 54, 120, 56 and 154, CityLink Pink and CityLink Red serve the neighborhood. A CivicScout report for an address such as 1200 E Monument St combines permits, police reports, 311 requests, open housing notices, parks and zoning within a half mile.
CivicScout counts Baltimore Police Department offense reports (NIBRS Group A) that carry a location and are tagged to Oldtown over the last 12 months, and shows open housing notices within a half mile of a searched address. The feed has almost no drug, narcotic or weapons offense records, so counts leave those offenses out. CivicScout does not have traffic crash data for Baltimore.
View safety data →Permits issued in the last 12 months within a half mile of the center of Oldtown most often list rowhouse dwelling, single family dwelling and multi-family dwelling as the property use. Permit counts use that half-mile circle, not the exact neighborhood outline.
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →Zoning in Oldtown is mostly Rowhouse and Multi-Family Residential (R-8 and R-10) and Commercial (C-2 and C-1), by area; the exact district varies by parcel.
View zoning →The zoned public schools assigned by attendance boundary.
View schools →A CivicScout report for any Oldtown address combines permits, police reports, 311 requests, open housing notices, parks and zoning within a half mile. Restaurant inspection and traffic crash data are not available for Baltimore.
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