How We Use City Data

Every number on this site comes from public records published by the City of New Orleans. None of it is estimated, modelled or bought. This page says exactly where each figure comes from, so you can check us.

The two sources

1. Active Occupational Licenses

Dataset iqay-p646 on data.nola.gov. Every business currently licensed to trade in the city, with owner, address, phone, the date the licence was first held, and coordinates.

We filtered it to every motor-trade category — automotive glass, glass and glazing, body and paint, general repair, mechanical and electrical, parts, tires, towing, oil change, transmission, exhaust and car washes — which gave 295 businesses.

2. NOPD Calls for Service

One dataset per year on the same portal. Every call the New Orleans Police Department dispatched, with its type and its location.

We kept the call types that break vehicle glass: simple burglary vehicle, auto accident, auto accident with injury and auto theft. That gave 6,798 break-ins, 42,135 collisions and 8,522 vehicle thefts.

And the boundaries

Dataset exvn-jeh2: the city's 72 Neighborhood Statistical Areas. These are the official boundaries used by the planning commission, the police and the local press. We use the city's names, not our own.

The window: January 2024 through September 16, 2026

That is 990 days. We chose it deliberately, and the reason is the most important thing on this page.

Why we do not show you 2021, 2022 or 2023 Those years carry roughly three times the vehicle break-ins of 2024. We cannot tell from the data whether that is a real collapse or a change in how calls are classified — and 2023 uses different wording entirely, logging the same event as burglary from vehicle rather than simple burglary vehicle, and accident - property damage rather than auto accident.

Stitching those together and calling the result a trend would produce a dramatic number and a dishonest one. Three consecutive years recorded the same way is a smaller claim that holds up.

The 2026 figures stop on September 16, 2026. Wherever a partial year sits next to full ones, we say so on the table, and we give a per-day rate so the comparison is fair.

What we excluded, and why

21 licences with no usable coordinates. The register records them at 0,0. They are counted in city totals and appear in the full register, but they are not assigned to any neighborhood. Guessing one from the ZIP code would have been easy and wrong.
Neighborhoods under 120 events. 61 of the 72 clear that bar. Below it there is not enough recorded activity to write anything useful, and we would rather leave a gap than pad one.
Prices. We do not publish them and we do not estimate them. What a job costs depends on your glass, your sensors and your policy, and a made-up range would be worse than silence.
Google listings, ratings and photos. None appear anywhere on this site. Google's terms do not permit republishing them, and a rating is not a public record.

What a licence means, and what it does not

The register records who registered and paid. It is not a quality rating, an endorsement or a complaint history. A business licensed since 1965 has been there a long time — that is a fact about duration, not about workmanship.

Equally, a business missing from the register is not necessarily unlicensed. It may be licensed in a neighbouring parish, filed under a category we did not pull, or trading under a different legal name.

We publish these names because they are public records and because a phone number attached to a licence and a start date is more useful than an anonymous listing. We do not publish opinions about them.

Found something wrong?

If a figure on this site does not match the source, or a business is listed with details that are out of date, tell us and we will check it against the register and correct it. The datasets are updated by the city; we re-read them rather than editing by hand.

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Last read: 2026-09-22. Sources: data.nola.gov datasets iqay-p646 (licences), exvn-jeh2 (neighborhood boundaries) and the NOPD Calls for Service series, one dataset per year.