Explore Pittsburgh building permits, police incident data, and EMI zoning in West Oakland, the Oakland neighborhood beside Carlow University.
Search this neighborhoodWest Oakland is the western part of Oakland, on the slope between the Bluff and the main campus area, where Educational/Medical Institution zoning covers about 39% of the land and Hillside zoning another 24%. Carlow University is on Fifth Avenue.
The University of Pittsburgh's School of Dental Medicine, UPMC Oakland hospital are here, and Dunseith Playground and Crossroads Park are small city parks. PRT routes 81, 83, 71B and 61A-61D serve the neighborhood.
CivicScout tracks Pittsburgh Bureau of Police reported incidents that carry a location and open code enforcement cases for any searched address in West 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 West 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 West Oakland is mostly Educational/Medical Institution (EMI), Hillside (H), and Single-Unit Attached Residential High Density (R1A-H), 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 West Oakland address combines permits, police incidents, 311 requests, code violations, parks and zoning within a half mile.
Search an address →Search an address in West Oakland to see building permits, safety data, zoning details, and AI-powered neighborhood reports.
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