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Park Graph Open Data

Park Graph compiles parking data from official sources: city meter rates, parking app fees, warnings about fake QR code stickers and truck parking by state. Every dataset is free to download as CSV or JSON and to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with a credit to Park Graph.

5 datasets · 6 files · Checked November 5, 2026 · CC BY 4.0

  1. U.S. City Parking Meter Rates: the 50 Largest Cities

    On-street parking meter rates, time limits, enforcement hours, Sunday enforcement, pay-by-app provider and app fees for the 50 largest U.S. cities (Census Vintage 2024), read from official city and city parking authority pages. Blank cells mean the city doesn't publish that figure.

    • Most expensive downtown rate: Chicago's Loop, $7.00 an hour. The highest published maximum is Los Angeles at $8.50 an hour.
    • Cheapest downtown rate: $1.00 an hour in El Paso, Detroit, Albuquerque and Omaha.

    50 rowsCSV of U.S. City Parking Meter Rates: the 50 Largest CitiesJSON of U.S. City Parking Meter Rates: the 50 Largest Cities

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  2. U.S. Parking App Convenience Fees

    Per-session fees drivers pay to use pay-by-phone parking apps (ParkMobile, PayByPhone, Passport, Flowbird, Park Smarter and city-branded apps), in 312 U.S. places across 43 states and DC. Sources are the providers' own help pages and city pages, and conflicts between a provider page and a city page are flagged in fee_notes.

    • Median fee: $0.35 per session. Most common: $0.35 (108 places), then $0.45 (56) and $0.30 (30).
    • Highest flat fee: $0.70 in Anchorage, AK. Nevada City, CA charges $0.75 on sessions under $5 and 15% above that.

    314 rowsCSV of U.S. Parking App Convenience FeesJSON of U.S. Parking App Convenience Fees

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  3. Parking QR Code Scam Warnings Worldwide

    125 official warnings about fake QR code stickers on parking meters, pay stations and parking signs, from 18 countries, December 2021 to October 2026. A scanned fake sticker sends drivers to a look-alike payment page, so the driver pays the scammer instead of the lot.

    • 125 warnings in 18 countries: United Kingdom 48, United States 22, Canada 10, Germany 10, Ireland 6, Switzerland 5, Belgium 5.
    • 119 of 125 (95%) date from 2024 to 2026. 2025 had the most, with 53.

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  4. U.S. Parking QR Code Scam Warnings

    22 official U.S. warnings about fake QR code stickers on parking meters, pay stations and parking signs, December 2021 to October 2026, each issued or confirmed by a city, parking authority, sheriff, police department or prosecutor. A scanned fake sticker sends drivers to a look-alike payment page, so the driver pays the scammer instead of the lot.

    • The first U.S. warning was San Antonio police on December 20, 2021, followed by Austin and Houston in January 2022.
    • Florida has 5 warnings: Fort Lauderdale (twice), Miami, Orlando and Pinellas County.

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  5. U.S. Truck Parking by State

    Truck parking supply by state from the two official sources that publish state tables: FHWA's Jason's Law survey report (2014 data) and ATRI/AASHTO's state findings (2024 data). The two use different definitions and units, so don't compare them directly.

    • 2014: 308,920 truck spaces nationally, only 11.7% public (36,222 public, 272,698 private).
    • Fewest spaces relative to truck traffic in 2014 (per 100K daily truck VMT): Rhode Island 31.4, California 53.7, Tennessee 54.2, Delaware 56.1, Connecticut 60.2.

    FHWA, 2014 data: 50 rowsCSV of U.S. Truck Parking by State, FHWA, 2014 dataJSON of U.S. Truck Parking by State, FHWA, 2014 data

    ATRI/AASHTO, 2024 data: 47 rowsCSV of U.S. Truck Parking by State, ATRI/AASHTO, 2024 dataJSON of U.S. Truck Parking by State, ATRI/AASHTO, 2024 data

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Use the data

Every dataset is free to use, share and adapt, including commercially, under CC BY 4.0. Credit Park Graph and link to the dataset's page; each page has a “Cite as” line ready to copy.

The CSV files are the files published on Hugging Face, byte for byte. Each JSON file holds the same rows as objects keyed by column name, with every value exactly as the CSV has it and blank cells as null, along with the dataset's title, license and citation.

The data comes from official sources: city and parking authority pages, the parking app companies' own help pages, warnings from cities, councils, police and fraud agencies, and federal and industry reports. Every file has a source_url column, so a figure can be checked against the original.

Park Graph Open Data: Free Parking Datasets (CSV, JSON)