DOHMH Dog Bite Data
NYC Reported Dog Bites. Section 11.03 of NYC Health Code requires all animals bites to be reported within 24 hours of the event. Information reported assists the Health Department to determine if the biting dog is healthy ten days after the person was bitten in order to avoid having the person bitten receive unnecessary rabies shots. Data is collected from reports received online, mail, fax or by phone to 311 or NYC DOHMH Animal Bite Unit. Each record represents a single dog bite incident. Information on breed, age, gender and Spayed or Neutered status have not been verified by DOHMH and is listed only as reported to DOHMH. A blank space in the dataset means no data was available.
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Freshness
The publisher's promise
How the agency that publishes this data says it keeps the data current.
Fresh
- Says it updates
- As needed
- Actually updates about every
- 367.08 days
- Publisher last updated the data
- Aug 21, 2026
Our mirror
Whether our copy of this data is current with the source.
In sync
- We last synced
- Aug 21, 2026, 12:43 PM
- Rows in our copy
- 39,082
- Rows at the source
- 39,082
- Our copy trails the source by
- under a minute
Columns
Each source column, with the name and type we use to store it.
0 of 9 columns carry a concept; 9 carry a description from the publisher. Read the concept column before you join. A column with no concept carries no claim from us, and a name that looks like a key is not one.
| Source field | Display name | What the publisher says it is | Concept | Source type | Stored as | Stored type | Row identifier | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
uniqueid | UniqueID | Unique dog bite case identifier | Not bound | Text | uniqueid | text | — | |
age | Age | Dog's age at time of bite. Numbers with 'M' indicate months. | Not bound | Text | age | text | — | |
gender | Gender | Sex of Dog. M=Male, F=Female, U=Unknown | Not bound | Text | gender | text | — | |
dateofbite | DateOfBite | Date bitten | Not bound | Calendar date | dateofbite | timestamp | — | |
zipcode | ZipCode | Dog bite Zipcode. Blank ZipCode indicates that information was not available | Not bound | Text | zipcode | text | — | |
borough | Borough | Dog bite Borough. Other' indicates that the bite took place outside New York City | Not bound | Text | borough | text | — | |
breed | Breed | Breed type | Not bound | Text | breed | text | — | |
species | Species | Animal Type (Dog) |
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This file was produced on Aug 27, 2026, 10:02 PM.
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Source and attribution
Where this data comes from, which version we hold, and what we changed.
- Source
- https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/rsgh-akpg
- Version
- Content hash:
5e8f9e106751bf55e607635bdddf75a8a6b7571ae0478320d374d20a90ab79f9 - What we changed
- We did not change the data. We stored it as published.
- Publisher
- codenownyc
- We retrieved it
- Aug 21, 2026, 12:43 PM
Update history
| Started | Kind | Result | Rows written | Produced by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2026, 12:50 AM | full_replace | success | 39,082 | codenow-nycmesh-container-oci.jfrog.io/codenow/citytap-pull:0.1.73 |