Explore Pittsburgh building permits, police incident data, and EMI zoning in North Oakland, home of the Cathedral of Learning and the Carnegie museums.
Search this neighborhoodNorth Oakland is the cultural and campus center of Oakland, east of Downtown, where the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning stands on Fifth Avenue. The Carnegie Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Music Hall and the Carnegie Library's Oakland main branch share the Forbes Avenue complex.
Heinz Memorial Chapel, the Stephen Foster Memorial, the William Pitt Union and Schenley Plaza are on or beside the Pitt campus, and Western Psychiatric Hospital is on O'Hara Street. Educational/Medical Institution zoning covers 44% of the land and Urban Center Mixed Use another 35%. PRT routes 54, 58, 71A-71D, 75 and the East Busway P3 serve Oakland.
CivicScout tracks Pittsburgh Bureau of Police reported incidents that carry a location and open code enforcement cases for any searched address in North 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 North 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 North Oakland is mostly Educational/Medical Institution (EMI), Urban Center Mixed Use (UC-MU), and Single-Unit Detached Residential Very Low Density (R1D-VL), by area; the exact district varies by parcel.
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View schools →A CivicScout report for any North Oakland address combines permits, police incidents, 311 requests, code violations, parks and zoning within a half mile.
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