Description: Places of Youth Access 500 Foot Buffer
Youth Serving Facilities (e.g., Schools, Childcare, Youth Organizations, etc.) in Colorado with 500ft Buffers
Feature layer (hosted)
Item updated: Aug 27, 2025
Polygon feature class representing 500ft buffers around Colorado Youth Serving Facilities. Youth serving facilities include the following locations:
• Schools (Preschool - 12th Grade) from the CDPHE CDOE School Locations and District Office Locations Feature Layer (downloaded April 8, 2025; data last updated September 30, 2024), with District Office Locations removed.
• License Childcare Locations from the CDPHE CDEC Colorado Licensed Childcare Providers Feature Layer (dowloaded August 6, 2025; data last updated June 27, 2023).
• Boys & Girls Clubs of Colorado from the state Boys & Girls Clubs webpage and local chapter webpages referenced therein (as of August 7, 2025).
• YMCAs of Colorado from the YMCA webpage and regional YMCA webpages (e.g., YMCA of Metro Denver and YMCA of the Pikes Peak Region) (as of August 8, 2025).
• OpenStreetMap Data for Colorado available via Geofabrik (downloaded August 11, 2025). Features tagged with the following classes were included as Youth Serving Facilities: park, mall, sports_centre, pitch, swimming_pool, amusement_arcade, cinema, ice-rink, theme_park, community_centre, library, playground, stadium, museum, zoo, aquarium, track. This file was developed by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment for use in the Tobacco Retailer and Compliance Check Web Map and Web Experience.
Update Schedule:
This school buffers layer will be updated as often as annually, but is dependent upon updates to various source data.
URL:
TRAC Dashboard
Fields Description:
Refer to the TRAC Data Dictionary (external Google Sheet) for a description of fields. See the ‘Youth Serving Facilities’ Sheet.
These data are published for informational purposes and there are no restrictions for using or disseminating this data set. Users of these data should consider factors such as the data source, time period, assignment of geography, statistical reliability, applied data suppression technique(s), and/or numerator/denominator used in calculation of rate. The State of Colorado and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment assumes no liability to the completeness, correctness, or fitness for use of this data set. Please contact the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment if you require more information on how these data were assembled.
Copyright Text: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Colorado Department of Education, Colorado Department of Early Childhood, YMCA, Boys and Girls Clubs, OpenStreetMap, Geofabrik
Description: Places of Youth Access 1000 Foot Buffer
Youth Serving Facilities (e.g., Schools, Childcare, Youth Organizations, etc.) in Colorado with 500ft Buffers
Feature layer (hosted)
Item updated: Aug 27, 2025
Polygon feature class representing 500ft buffers around Colorado Youth Serving Facilities. Youth serving facilities include the following locations:
• Schools (Preschool - 12th Grade) from the CDPHE CDOE School Locations and District Office Locations Feature Layer (downloaded April 8, 2025; data last updated September 30, 2024), with District Office Locations removed.
• License Childcare Locations from the CDPHE CDEC Colorado Licensed Childcare Providers Feature Layer (dowloaded August 6, 2025; data last updated June 27, 2023).
• Boys & Girls Clubs of Colorado from the state Boys & Girls Clubs webpage and local chapter webpages referenced therein (as of August 7, 2025).
• YMCAs of Colorado from the YMCA webpage and regional YMCA webpages (e.g., YMCA of Metro Denver and YMCA of the Pikes Peak Region) (as of August 8, 2025).
• OpenStreetMap Data for Colorado available via Geofabrik (downloaded August 11, 2025). Features tagged with the following classes were included as Youth Serving Facilities: park, mall, sports_centre, pitch, swimming_pool, amusement_arcade, cinema, ice-rink, theme_park, community_centre, library, playground, stadium, museum, zoo, aquarium, track. This file was developed by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment for use in the Tobacco Retailer and Compliance Check Web Map and Web Experience.
Update Schedule:
This school buffers layer will be updated as often as annually, but is dependent upon updates to various source data.
URL:
TRAC Dashboard
Fields Description:
Refer to the TRAC Data Dictionary (external Google Sheet) for a description of fields. See the ‘Youth Serving Facilities’ Sheet.
These data are published for informational purposes and there are no restrictions for using or disseminating this data set. Users of these data should consider factors such as the data source, time period, assignment of geography, statistical reliability, applied data suppression technique(s), and/or numerator/denominator used in calculation of rate. The State of Colorado and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment assumes no liability to the completeness, correctness, or fitness for use of this data set. Please contact the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment if you require more information on how these data were assembled.
Copyright Text: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Colorado Department of Education, Colorado Department of Early Childhood, YMCA, Boys and Girls Clubs, OpenStreetMap, Geofabrik