Explore Pittsburgh building permits, police incident data, and R-MU zoning in Central Oakland, the middle of Oakland, beside Schenley Park.
Search this neighborhoodCentral Oakland is the middle of Oakland, the university and hospital district east of Downtown, with Forbes Avenue as its main street. Part of Schenley Park lies within it, and the University of Pittsburgh's Hillman Library, Barco Law Building and Frick Fine Arts Library are on its streets.
Residential Mixed Use covers about 31% of the neighborhood, followed by Urban Center Employment and Parks and Open Space. The Oakland Square Historic District and Boundary Street Park are here, and a wall from Forbes Field, the Pirates' former ballpark, stands on the Pitt campus. PRT routes 58, 54, 67, 69 and 71A-71D serve Oakland.
CivicScout tracks Pittsburgh Bureau of Police reported incidents that carry a location and open code enforcement cases for any searched address in Central Oakland. Police publish no location for sex offenses, so located counts understate violent crime. CivicScout does not have traffic crash data for Pittsburgh. University police departments patrol their own campuses, so incidents there may not appear.
View safety data →Permits filed in Central Oakland since mid-2024 are mostly building and development applications and electrical permits.
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →Zoning in Central Oakland is mostly Residential Mixed Use (R-MU), Urban Center Employment (UC-E), and Parks and Open Space (P), 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 Central Oakland address combines permits, police incidents, 311 requests, code violations, parks and zoning within a half mile.
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