I have one green alley polygon feature layer and another census tract layer. I used spatial join to create a census tract layer containing green alley polygon features. I set the Shape Area field rule as Count, as shown in the following screenshot:
I got the results as shown in the following screenshot: The green color polygon layer is original green alley polygon features layer. The blue color polygon layer is the output results showing census tracts containing green alley polygon features. The purple polygon layer is the census tract layer for the whole area. The Spatial Join tool operation does not count green alleys for all census tracts: some census tracts contain green alleys features, but the results count them as 0. How to fix it? Thank you
I have one green alley polygon feature layer and another census tract layer. I used spatial join to create a census tract layer containing green alley polygon features. I set the Shape Area field rule as Count, as shown in the following screenshot:
I got the results as shown in the following screenshot: The green color polygon layer is original green alley polygon features layer. The blue color polygon layer is the output results showing census tracts containing green alley polygon features. The purple polygon layer is the census tract layer for the whole area. The Spatial Join tool operation does not count green alleys for all census tracts: some census tracts contain green alleys features, but the results count them as 0. How to fix it? Thank you
identifying the tabular results would help
this is Pro's help (arcmaps should be similar)
Spatial Join (Analysis)—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation
make sure both featureclasses are singlepart and not multipart features
Try one of the other options like intersect, or have there center in
since many of your features share boundaries between subject and target featureclasses and this may be affecting the "contains" option