Available data layers

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Refer to the table below for a detailed list of all the data layers available in Google Earth.

Title	Description	Source(s)
Administrative area level 1	First-order civil entities below the country level, like US states, provinces, and other areas of similar size. Not all nations use these administrative levels.	Google Maps
Administrative area level 2	Second-order civil entities below the country level, like US counties and other areas of similar size. Not all nations use these administrative levels.	Google Maps
Administrative area level 3	Third-order civil entities below the country level, like cities and other areas of similar size. Not all nations use these administrative levels.	Google Maps
Driveway counts	The number of driveways within each postal code (not per mile of roadway), estimated by satellite imagery. Includes both private driveways (for example, next to a single family house) and public or commercial driveways (for example, leading to a park or mall plaza).	Google Maps
Elevation contours	Contour lines representing the topography of Earth at 20-meter intervals above sea level. Zoom in to visualize and interact with elevation contours on the map. Contour lines are based on inferred data, which may contain errors, and don't equal onsite or survey-grade information.	Google Earth Engine
EV charging station counts (by US census tract)	The number of EV charging stations aggregated within each census tract boundary.	Google Maps
EV charging station counts (by postal code)	The number of EV charging stations aggregated within each postal code boundary.	Google Maps
EV charging station locations	Includes the address, operating company, and available charging ports at each location. Each point in this layer represents a single station.	Google Maps
EV charging station search interest	Represents monthly searches on Google Maps mobile within each census tract boundary. Numbers are aggregated based on coarsened user locations and have been anonymized. The anonymized aggregates are then converted to an index from 0 to 100, where 100 signifies the highest search interest and 0 the lowest.	Google Maps
Household income	The median household income within each census tract boundary.	United States Census (2020)
Land surface temperature	The average of surface temperature values (celsius) within each census tract, from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Landsat 7, 8, 9 during the three warmest months of the year (for example, June, July, August in the northern hemisphere) for six years (2018-2023). Note: Summer daytime land surface temperature is often warmer than air temperature, because surface materials absorb sunlight and convert it to heat more readily than air.	USGS Landsat 7, 8, 9
Localities	Civil entities like cities, towns, and municipalities, as defined by local city governments. Note: Not seeing full coverage? Try adding the Administrative area level 3 data layer to see more geographic divisions of similar size.	Google Maps
Monthly vehicle trips	An estimated average of the inbound and outbound total monthly vehicle trips within each census tract, limited to trips within each greater metropolitan area. These metrics have been anonymized with differential privacy techniques, aggregated at the US Census Tract level, then scaled up to represent the larger traveling population.	Google Maps
Multi-dwelling unit counts	A multi-dwelling unit is defined as a building or group of buildings that contain multiple separate housing units.	Google Maps American Community Survey
Population (Global Human Settlement Layer)	Projected population counts and density (per square meter), as aggregated within each census tract boundary.	European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Population (WorldPop, by postal code)	Projected population counts and density (per square meter), as aggregated within each postal code boundary.	WorldPop
Postal codes	Geographic boundaries as defined by the postal service.	United States Postal Service
Rooftop reflectivity (albedo)	Average solar reflectivity – also known as albedo – of rooftops in a census tract. This is defined as the fraction of sunlight that is reflected from a surface. It is measured on a scale of 0 (absorbs all incident radiation) to 1 (reflects all incident radiation). Rooftop reflectivity on low-slope roofs is the average across low-slope roof segments. Low-slope roofs have pitches (measured as a ratio of the number of inches that the roof rises for every 12 horizontal inches) that are ≤ 2:12. Rooftop reflectivity on steep-slope roofs is the average across steep-slope roof segments. Steep-slope roofs have pitches that are > 2:12.	Google
Traffic signal level of service	Grades the level of service for intersections with traffic signals, based on vehicle delay times. These are calculated using anonymized and aggregated Google data. Grades span A-F and are available for each hour between 06:00–22:00.	Google
Tree canopy percentage	Tree canopy percentage is estimated as the percentage of pixels in a census tract that are categorized as "tree", based on an AI model that was trained to categorize pixels in high-resolution overhead imagery into a number of terrain types, such as "tree" or "road".	Google
US census tracts	Subdivisions, typically of a county or statistically equivalent entity, delineated by local participants as part of the US Census Bureau's Participant Statistical Areas Program. Boundaries normally follow physical features but can also follow administrative or other non-physical features.	United States Census
US land parcels with zoning	Land parcels across the United States for which zoning information is available.	Zoneomics Google Maps
US zoning	Zoning information across the United States.	Zoneomics