Map tools for developers, investors and tenants
Choosing where to build, buy or open is a question about what surrounds a location and what is coming to it. Dubai Project Location Intelligence sets the official figures for any part of the city side by side: the homes due to complete nearby, year by year; the metro, tram and bus; schools and their ratings; and the residents who already live there. Every figure carries its source and its date.
The map
Pick what the blocks are shaded by from the row above the map. Dark blocks sit low among the city’s blocks on that figure and gold blocks sit high. Click anywhere for a location card, or search an area or a station. Open the layer panel under the map to switch the metro and tram, the project groups and the community outlines on or off.
Map layers
Modules
Each module is its own page with its own map, built on the same dated figures as the overview. Your pin travels with you: drop it once and every module opens on the same spot.
Everything we hold about one spot, as figure tiles: the homes due within 1 km and 2 km by year, the nearest metro and tram, bus stops, schools by KHDA rating and the community’s residents. Figures that only exist for the whole community are marked as community-level.
Open the area dashboardPick your handover year and see how many units are scheduled to complete in that same year within 1 km and 2 km of your plot, next to the residential units registered as sold around it last year. The figures come straight from the Land Department’s records, with no forecast laid on top.
Open the developer pipelineRate your priority for each factor from 0 to 10 and the map shades every block by how well it matches. Nothing is ranked until you rate one, and every match comes with a full breakdown of the figures behind it.
Open the site finderDrop a pin and see the units scheduled to complete within 1 km and 2 km of it, year by year, as bars or a running total, beside the residents of the community that holds it.
Open catchment and growthPlace two or three locations and see the same figures for each side by side, every one measured from its own pin. The link keeps all three, so a comparison can be shared.
Open compare locationsSet thresholds such as residents with no school within 2 km, or homes due with no clinic within 1 km, and the map shades every block whose figures pass them. It reports what it found and makes no recommendation.
Open the gap finderSave up to 10 locations from any module and see their key figures side by side. Reorder them, remove them, and email the whole shortlist to yourself.
Open your shortlistWho it is for
The first question on a new scheme is what else will be finished nearby at the same time. The developer pipeline reads the units scheduled on the Land Department register within 1 km and 2 km of the plot, year by year, so you can see how crowded your handover year is before you commit to it. The area dashboard adds the transport and schools a buyer or tenant will ask about.
An investor buying off-plan is buying into an area as it will be at handover. The overview map shows where the register has the most units due by 2030, how close each block is to a metro station and how many schools sit within 2 km. Read it with the Dubai development map and the Dubai handover pipeline for the month-by-month dates.
A school operator, a clinic group, a supermarket or a large office tenant depends on who can reach a site and who lives around it. The site finder lets you rate your priorities, such as many residents, being close to a metro station or schools nearby, and shows the blocks that match them best.
The tool shows what surrounds a location and what is due there. It does not show which plots, units or shops are available, or what they cost today. That is the conversation we have with you: tell us the locations you are weighing and what you need from them, and we will come back with what is on offer.
Layers
Drop a pin anywhere and the tool measures from that exact point in a straight line: the nearest metro station and tram stop, the bus stops within 500 m, the schools within 2 km, and the units in registered projects within 1 km and 2 km. Residents come from the Dubai Municipality community that holds the pin, so every pin in a community shares that figure, and the page marks it as community-level wherever it appears.
For comparing one part of the city with another, the city is also divided into equal hexagonal blocks of about 0.75 km², the same grid as the development map. The shading and the site finder measure each block from its centre.
Shading on the overview map shows where a block sits among all 1,144 blocks on the figure you choose, from the lowest to the highest. A block with no figure for that measure is left unshaded. The 53 metro stations and 11 tram stops appear under their place names, and 66 of them carry their journeys for Sep 2025 to Aug 2026. Population covers 224 communities, about 4.6 million residents in all at the end of 2025.
| Layer | What it shows | Source | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Units due | Units in registered projects within 1 km and 2 km, by the completion date on file, from the rest of 2026 to after 2030. | Dubai Land Department, Mashrooi project register | Read 18 Oct 2026 |
| Units completed | Units in projects finished with a completion date in 2021 to 2025, within 1 km and 2 km. | Dubai Land Department, Mashrooi project register | Read 18 Oct 2026 |
| Metro and tram | Straight-line distance to the nearest metro station, and to the nearest tram stop within 3 km. | RTA, via Dubai Data | 22 Sep 2025 |
| Station journeys | Journeys through the nearest metro station’s gates over 12 months. | RTA and Dubai Statistics Center, via Dubai Data | Sep 2025 to Aug 2026 |
| Bus stops | Bus stops within 500 m of your pin. | RTA, via Dubai Data | 21 Sep 2025 |
| Schools | Private schools within 2 km, by KHDA inspection rating and curriculum. | KHDA, via Dubai Data | 11 Oct 2026 |
| Residents | Estimated population of the Dubai Municipality community, and residents per km². | Dubai Statistics Center, via Dubai Data | End of 2025 |
| Community outlines | The boundaries of the communities Dubai Municipality uses. | Dubai Municipality, via Dubai Data | 28 Sep 2026 |
| Food and drink | Licensed food and drink outlets within 1 km, by broad activity, with no names. | Dubai Municipality, via Dubai Data | 28 Sep 2026 |
| Clinics and pharmacies | Clinics and pharmacies within 1 km, and the approximate distance to the nearest. | Dubai Health Authority, via Dubai Data | 1 Feb 2026 |
| Pupils enrolled | Pupils enrolled at the private schools within 2 km. | KHDA, via Dubai Data | 4 Nov 2025 |
| Bus coverage | Residents of the community within reach of a bus stop, as RTA publishes it. | RTA, via Dubai Data | 31 Dec 2024 |
| Public parking | Public parking spaces RTA records in the community, and RTA’s Dubai-wide parking tariff. | RTA, via Dubai Data | 18 Dec 2025 |
| Buildings | Buildings on Dubai Municipality’s building register in the community, by type. | Dubai Municipality, via Dubai Data | 28 Sep 2026 |
Limits
The units are every unit type the register credits a project with, so a hotel or an office tower counts alongside apartments and villas. A completion date on file is a filing with the Land Department and can move. Sums are rounded to two significant figures, which is why the tool says “about”, and a figure resting on fewer than 2 projects is left blank.
Every distance is a straight line from your pin, to the nearest 10 m; a pin on a station reads under 50 m. The site finder compares blocks, so there each distance runs from the centre of the block. A walking or driving route will be longer, sometimes much longer where a highway or the creek lies between. The tram distance appears only where the nearest stop is within 3 km.
KHDA’s School Search places each school to about 1 km, so a school near the edge of the 2 km circle could fall either side of it. Use the count as a guide to how well an area is served, and check the KHDA listing for a particular school’s rating and fees.
Population is the Dubai Statistics Center estimate for each community at the end of 2025. Station journeys count trips through the gates; they tell you how busy a station is, and they do not count people walking past a shop front.
Method
Open data is published on Dubai Data under the Dubai Open Data Licence. The figures are counted, rounded and presented by Mitchell's Commercial Real Estate. The Dubai Government and the publishing entities named above do not endorse Mitchell's Commercial Real Estate and are not associated with it or with this tool. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, served as OpenMapTiles by OpenFreeMap.
Questions
Dubai Project Location Intelligence is a free set of map tools from Mitchell's Commercial Real Estate for developers, investors and larger tenants weighing up a location in Dubai. It brings together the Dubai Land Department project register, RTA transport data, KHDA school data and Dubai Statistics Center population estimates for 1,144 blocks of the city. The overview map shows the whole city; seven modules (the area dashboard, the developer pipeline, the site finder, catchment and growth, compare locations, the gap finder and a shortlist) each answer one question about a location.
Every figure is from an official source and carries its date. The project register was read 18 Oct 2026. Metro and tram stations are RTA data dated 22 Sep 2025, bus stops 21 Sep 2025. Schools are KHDA's School Search, dated 11 Oct 2026. Residents are Dubai Statistics Center estimates for the end of 2025. Open data comes through Dubai Data under the Dubai Open Data Licence.
No. Every figure about new homes is a sum over at least 2 registered projects, and a figure that would rest on a single project is left blank, so no project can be picked out. The map draws registered projects only in groups. To see the projects registered in an area, use the off-plan directory.
They are the boundaries of the communities Dubai Municipality uses, dated 28 Sep 2026. Residents and residents per km² are published for these communities, so a figure marked community-level describes the whole community that holds your pin, and every pin inside it carries the same figure.
Only when you ask it to. The overview map and the area dashboard show facts. The site finder starts with every factor switched off; once you rate a factor's priority from 1 to 10, it shows how each block matches your priorities and lists the closest matches. There are no presets and no ranking of our own. The gap finder filters blocks by thresholds you set and lists those that pass, without scoring them.
It is free to use, with no sign-in. Each module has an "Email my results" form that sends the figures on screen to your inbox, and the address bar keeps your pin, so you can bookmark a location or send it to a colleague. "Save to shortlist" keeps up to 10 locations in your browser, with their key figures side by side.
Next step
Tell us the locations you are weighing up and what you need from them, whether a plot, a block of units or space for your business, and we will come back with what is available and the terms we would look at first.
