The California ABC Licensing Dashboard shows alcohol licenses and applications registered to businesses. Some Non-Retail businesses are located outside of California, but provide alcohol and related products to businesses within the state. *Note: Council District and Planning Body is currently only available for the City of Los Angeles and City of San Rafael. We are currently working to add planning bodies for all California cities.| Issues and Roadmap

Downloadable Data

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The dataset is downloaded and processed from the California Department Alcoholic Beverage & Control (ABC). Records are geocoded using available Premise Address information using Geocodio. 2020 Census Tracts, Los Angeles and San Rafael Council Districts, and Neighborhood Council District information is added to the data.

Legend and Data Sources

COMMON LICENSE CLASS & DESCRIPTION

ON-SALE
PUBS & TAVERNS
40 Beer – Bar or Tavern (Minors OK)
42 Beer & Wine – Bar or Tavern
61 Beer – Bar or Tavern

BARS & CLUBS
48 Liquor – Bar or Night Club

RESTAURANTS
41 Beer & Wine – Restaurant
47 Liquor – Restaurant

OFF-SALE
20 Beer & Wine Store
21 Liquor Store

NON-RETAIL – BREWER, WINERY
1 Large Brewery
2 Winery
23 Micro-Brewery – Brew Pub


LICENSING TERMINOLOGY
License – unique outlet ID number
Type – alcohol sales & environment
Class – common license type groups
Master – main outlet license type
Dupe – non-master use in outlet
Conditions – special mandatory terms
Address – outlet location
Tract – 2010 Census tract

COMMON LICENSE STATUS

ACTIVE – fully engaged license
REV – revocation
SUPEND – suspended
PEND – pending
SUREND – license surrendered
R64B – license issued and held
REVPEN – revocation pending
SLMSHD – special hold

ENFORCEMENT TERMINOLOGY
Charges – accusation against outlet
Cleared – final ABC action taken
POIC – fine in lieu of penalties
Rev. Stayed – penalty probationed
Waived – penalty summarily dismissed
Agency – reporting law enforcement


DATA SOURCES
California Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC)
Outlet Licensing, Enforcement & Metrics
https://ca.abc.gov

All license types
https://www.abc.ca.gov/licensing/license-types/

US Census – geographic and demographic data
https://www.census.gov/data.html

City of Los Angeles – geographic and crime data
https://data.lacity.org

Los Angeles County – geographic data
https://egis3.lacounty.gov/dataportal/