The Downtown Portland Clean & Safe District conducts research that helps stakeholders understand what’s happening in Portland’s core—from foot traffic patterns to business conditions to real estate trends. Our annual reports include a downtown business survey, pedestrian counts throughout the district, a development activity analysis, and an assessment of the impact of our programs.
Downtown Vibrancy Tracker
Since 2020, we have been tracking the impact on our local economy. The question of how good or bad the recovery of our central city is relative to others has been a hot topic of discussion. This recovery tracker can help benchmark metrics like foot traffic, vacancy rates, and hotel performance and more.
Pedestrian Counts
Downtown Portland Clean & Safe engages with Placer.ai to monitor pedestrian traffic in its 273-Block area district. We monitor the number of people in the Downtown area, the times of day people are visiting, which days of the week are busier, and the spaces they are frequenting.
