arcgis.features.enrich_data module¶

These functions help you explore the character of areas. Detailed demographic data and statistics are returned for your chosen areas.

enrich_layer retrieves information about the people, places, and businesses in a specific area, or within a selected travel time or distance from a location.

enrich_layer¶

arcgis.features.enrich_data.enrich_layer(input_layer, data_collections=[], analysis_variables=[], country=None, buffer_type=None, distance=None, units=None, output_name=None, context=None, gis=None, estimate=False, return_boundaries=False, future=False)¶

The enrich_layer method enriches your data by getting facts about the people, places, and businesses that surround your data locations. For example: What kind of people live here? What do people like to do in this area? What are their habits and lifestyles? What kind of businesses are there in this area?

The result will be a new layer of input features that includes all demographic and geographic information from given data collections.

Parameter	Description
input_layer	Required layer. The features to enrich with new data. See Feature Input.
data_collections	Optional list of strings. This optional parameter defines the collections of data you want to use to enrich your features. Its value is a list of strings. If you don’t provide this parameter, you must provide the analysis_variables parameter. For more information about data collections and the values for this parameter, visit the Esri Demographics site.
analysis_variables	Optional list of strings. The parameter defines the specific variables within a data collection you want to use to your features. Its value is a list of strings in the form of “dataCollection.VariableName”. If you don’t provide this parameter, you must provide the dataCollections parameter. You can provide both parameters. For example, if you want all variables in the KeyGlobalFacts data collection, specify it in the dataCollections parameter and use this parameter for specific variables in other collections. For more information about variables in data collections, visit the Esri Demographics site. Each data collection has a PDF file describing variables and their names.
country	Optional string. This optional parameter further defines what is returned from data collection. For example, your input features may be countries in Western Europe, and you want to enrich them with the KeyWEFacts data collection. However, you only want data for France, not every country in your input layer. The value is the two-character country code. For more information about data collections and the values for this parameter, visit the Esri Demographics site.
buffer_type (Required if input_layer contains point or line features)	Optional string. If your input features are points or lines, you must define an area around your features that you want to enrich. Features that are within (or equal to) the distances you enter will be enriched. Choice list: [‘StraightLine’, ‘Driving Distance’, ‘Driving Time ‘, ‘Rural Driving Distance’, ‘Rural Driving Time’, ‘Trucking Distance’, ‘Trucking Time’, ‘Walking Distance’, ‘Walking Time’]
distance (Required if input_layer contains point or line features)	Optional float. A value that defines the search distance or time. The units of the distance value is supplied by the units parameter.
units	Optional string. The linear unit to be used with the distance value(s) specified in the distance parameter. Choice list: [‘Meters’, ‘Kilometers’, ‘Feet’, ‘Yards’, ‘Miles’, ‘Seconds’, ‘Minutes’. ‘Hours’]
output_name	Optional string or `FeatureLayer`. Existing feature layer will cause the new layer to be appended to the Feature Service. If overwrite is True in context, new layer will overwrite existing layer. If output_name not indicated then new `FeatureCollection` created.
context	Optional dict. Additional settings such as processing extent and output spatial reference. For enrich_layer, there are three settings. `extent` - a bounding box that defines the analysis area. Only those features in the input_layer that intersect the bounding box will be analyzed. `outSR` - the output features will be projected into the output spatial reference referred to by the wkid. `overwrite` - if True, then the feature layer in output_name will be overwritten with new feature layer.
gis	Optional, the GIS on which this tool runs. If not specified, the active GIS is used.

return_boundaries	Optional boolean. Applies only for point and line input features. If True, a result layer of areas is returned. The returned areas are defined by the specified buffer_type. For example, if using a buffer_type of StraightLine with a distance of 5 miles, your result will contain areas with a 5 mile radius around the input features and requested analysis_variables variables. If False, the resulting layer will return the same features as the input layer with analysis_variables variables. The default value is False.
future	Optional boolean. If True, the result will be a GPJob object and results will be returned asynchronously.

:returns FeatureLayer if output_name is specified, else FeatureCollection.

USAGE EXAMPLE: To enrich US block groups with population as analysis variable.
blkgrp_enrich = enrich_layer(block_groups,
                             analysis_variables=["AtRisk.MP27002A_B"],
                             country='US',
                             output_name='enrich layer')