Esri uses location and business content supplied and licensed by SafeGraph to create ArcGIS Places datasets for Canada, Puerto Rico, and the United States.
ArcGIS Places datasets sourced from SafeGraph provide information about locations where consumers can spend money, time, or both, including restaurants, grocery stores, parking lots, malls, parks, hospitals, museums, and more. These datasets contain information about approximately 1.1 million points of interest in Canada, approximately 135,000 Puerto Rican points of interest, and more than 18 million points of interest in the United States. See Introduction to ArcGIS Places for more information.
Release date and vintage
Esri updated the datasets in February 2026 with vintage November 2025 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/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 | North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code affiliated with the location, when applicable. For standard government NAICS code definitions, see the NAICS website. | 451110 |
NAICS Description | The description of the NAICS code affiliated with the location. | Sporting Goods Stores |
NAICS Sector | The first two digits of the NAICS code. This indicates the general economic activity category of the business (calculated by Esri). | Retail Trade |
| Esri Category | An Esri-created six-character code representing a standardized classification system that groups locations 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. | "Mon": [["09:00", "18:30"]] |
Address | The street address of the location. | 123 Main Street |
City | The town or municipality where the location is located. | 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 string indicating the parent corporation of the location; provided to enable business groupings for parent corporations. | The Kroger Co. |
Source | The primary data source from which the 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 all the attributes available on SafeGraph's platform.
- 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.
- SafeGraph provides NAICS codes in NAICS 2017 format. Esri translates these to the NAICS 2022 format. Refer to the U.S. Census 2022 to 2017 Concordance to review these changes.
- 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.