For Realtors & brokerages
Neighbourhood safety data for realtors
Every buyer asks about the neighbourhood — and the honest answer used to be anecdote. CityAlert plots 689 official public-safety feeds across 757 regions: reported crime, fires, hazards and community reports, each pin labelled with its source. Show clients a live map of the area around a listing, pull year-over-year neighbourhood trends, or embed a safety snapshot on your listing pages — real data they can explore instead of a rehearsed reassurance.
- feeds polled
- 689
- focus regions
- 757
- live map
- free
What you get
Neighbourhood-level incident rankings
The crime-year endpoint ranks a city's neighbourhoods by reported incidents — 'how does this street compare to the rest of town' becomes a chart your client can read, not your opinion.
Live map for every listing conversation
Open the map scoped to the listing's city and let the client pan around the block, the commute route and the school catchment themselves. Free, no account — works on the tablet in your hand at showings.
Shareable dashboards per property
Configure a view — boundary, categories, panels — and share it as a link. Send one with every listing: the client sees the live picture without needing an account, and it keeps updating after the showing.
Embeddable safety widget for listing pages
An iframe scoped to a city or region — a 'what's happening nearby' panel on your brokerage site that refreshes itself and carries CityAlert attribution.
Watch areas for your farm
Draw alert areas around the neighbourhoods you farm and get real-time email alerts or a morning digest — you'll know about the fire on Main Street before your clients do, and you'll be the one who told them.
Trend data, not just pins
City stats pages show whether incidents are trending up or down year over year where history exists — the trajectory matters to buyers as much as the snapshot.
Home & environmental safety per city
US city pages carry a ZIP-level card with the factors buyers actually research — water-system violations, lead sampling, radon zone and a composite Home Safety Score from public EPA records. It's labelled with the source ZIP and links out for the full report — evidence, not a sales pitch.
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What it won't do
We'd rather lose a deal than oversell the data — these are the honest limits for realtors & brokerages.
Coverage varies by region
Incident-level official feeds are strongest in the 757 defined focus regions — city pages show a coverage badge telling you exactly what kind of data backs each area. Outside covered regions, don't present the map as a complete crime picture.
Informational, not a safety guarantee
The data reflects what feeds publish, with their own lags and reporting rules. Present it as 'what's reported' — not 'this neighbourhood is safe' — and defer to official police statistics for decisions that carry liability.
Media-derived pins are approximate
Where official feeds don't exist, some incidents come from geocoded media reports at block level — labelled approximate on the map.
Environmental data is a records snapshot
The home-safety card is US-only, representative of one ZIP per city, and reflects what public EPA/radon records say — missing evidence shows as 'no data', never as 'clean'. It's context for a conversation, not a disclosure substitute.
Is it a fit?
Built for you if…
- Buyer agents who want to answer 'is this a safe area?' with data instead of deflection.
- Brokerages that want a branded safety layer on listing pages and neighbourhood guides.
- Teams farming specific neighbourhoods who want to be first to know about local incidents.
- Relocation specialists comparing candidate neighbourhoods across regions.
Probably not if…
- Your market has no feed coverage — check the city page for your area first; the coverage badge is honest about what's there.
- You need forensic-grade crime statistics for disclosure purposes — use the police department's official figures.
Free to show; Business for teams
Agents can use the map, stats pages and shareable dashboards today at no cost — links work with no account for your clients. Watch-area alerting for a solo agent is Pro ($29/yr); teams and brokerages use Business ($299/yr) — commercial license, 25 Slack/Discord delivery endpoints and 50 pinned cities. Larger offices wanting branded listing-page embeds or API integration: contact us to scope an office plan.
Full plan details on the pricing page; questions and enterprise scope: [email protected].
Frequently asked questions
Can I share a map with a client?
Yes — dashboards are built for exactly this. Configure the boundary and categories once, share the link, and the client sees the live view with no account or app. It keeps updating, so the same link works through the whole closing.
Is this data accurate enough to show buyers?
Every incident names its source, and each city page carries a coverage badge saying whether it's backed by official feeds or media-derived reports. Show it as 'reported incidents from named sources' — which is honest and useful — rather than a safety rating. For formal disclosure questions, direct clients to official police statistics.
Can our brokerage put this on listing pages?
Yes — the embed widget iframes a live incident summary scoped to a city or region, free with attribution. Team alerting and commercial use are covered by the Business plan ($299/yr); brokerages wanting branded, per-listing deployments or API integration into their listing stack should contact us for an office plan.
CityAlert.live is an aggregation and awareness tool — media-sourced incidents are approximate and every pin names its source. For emergencies always follow official channels. See our terms and sources & licenses.