Data documentation.
We have cleaned and processed over 400 datasets as part of our work, and plan on continuing to ingest new data, as well as updating data with new releases. Below you will find some basic info on the main datasets we work with.
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| Dataset Name | Category | Summary | Data Link | Time Span | Geography |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BA - Brewery Directory Brewers Association (BA) | Points of Interest | Looking for a brewery? The BA staff is continually updating this data to make this the most comprehensive list of U.S. and international breweries available. Brewers Association members are denoted by BA logo. Brewery employees who need to submit corrections or updates can do so through the company admin portal or reach out to us at | Link | latest | point (coordinates) |
| BLS - Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) | Economy | The Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program produces monthly and annual employment, unemployment, and labor force data for Census regions and divisions, States, counties, metropolitan areas, and many cities, by place of residence. | Link | 1990-2019 | county |
| CDC - Death of Despair Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | Health | The death of despair deaths from years 2013-2017 from alcohol-related diseases (K70, K73–74, X45, Y15), suicide (X60–84, Y87.0), and drug- and alcohol-related poisonings (X40–44, Y10–14, Y45, 47, 49). Poisonings are deaths from excessive alcohol and overdoses of prescription and illegal drugs that are considered to be accidental or from undetermined intent. | Link | 2013-2017 | county |
| CDC - Multiple Cause of Death (MCD) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | Health | CDC WONDER, developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is an integrated information and communication system for public health. Its purposes are: To promote information-driven decision making by placing timely, useful facts in the hands of public health practitioners and researchers, and To provide the general public with access to specific and detailed information from CDC. | Link | 2006-2017 | county |
| CDC - NCHHSTP - HIV Prevalence CDC - National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) | Health | CDC collects, analyzes, and disseminates surveillance data on diagnoses of HIV infection; these data are the nation’s source of information on HIV in the United States. Numbers and rates are presented based on the date of diagnosis of HIV infection and infection classified as stage 3 (AIDS). | Link | 2012-2016 | county |
| CDC - Opioid Overdose Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | Health | The opioid overdose deaths from years 2013-2017 from F11 (Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of opioids), T40 (Poisoning by narcotics and psychodysleptics [hallucinogens]),T40.0 (Opium),T40.1 (Heroin),T40.2 (Other opioids),T40.3 (Methadone),T40.4 (Other synthetic narcotics),T40.6 (Other and unspecified narcotics) | Link | 2013-2017 | county |
| CMS - Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) | Health | HRSA programs provide health care to people who are geographically isolated, economically or medically vulnerable. This includes people living with HIV/AIDS, pregnant women, mothers and their families, and those otherwise unable to access high quality health care. HRSA also supports access to health care in rural areas, the training of health professionals, the distribution of providers to areas where they are needed most, and improvements in health care delivery. | Link | To 2019 | point (coordinates) |
| ED - College Scorecard Department of Education (ED) | Education | The College Scorecard is designed to increase transparency, putting the power in the hands of the public — from those choosing colleges to those improving college quality — to see how well different schools are serving their students. | Link | 1996-2017 | point |
| ED - IES - NCES - IPEDS ED - IES - National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) | Education | IPEDS has five module-based tutorials from the Distance Learning Dataset Training System (DLDT), which is an online tool designed to facilitate analysis in postsecondary students, faculty, staff, and resources. | Link | 1988-2019 | point |
| EIA - Power Plants Energy Information Administration (EIA) | Energy | Operable electric generating plants in the United States by energy source. This includes all plants that are operating, on standby, or short- or long-term out of service with a combined nameplate capacity of 1 MW or more. | Link | To April 2019 | point (coordinates) |
| EIG - Distressed Communities Index (DCI) Economic Innovation Group (EIG) | Economy | EIG used its Distressed Communities Index (DCI) to compare two distinct time periods: 2007-2011 and 2012-2016. The DCI combines seven complementary metrics into a single measure of economic well-being, resulting in a clear snapshot of the economic and social state of the U.S. zip codes, counties, cities, and congressional districts. | Link | 2007-2016 | county |
| EPA - Geospatial Data Access Project Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | Environment | To improve public health and the environment, the EPA collects information about facilities or sites subject to environmental regulation. | Link | point (coordinates) | |
| FCC - Form 477 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) | Community | Data is Block-level wireline broadband max advertised upload and download speeds. Who Reports: All facilities-based broadband providers are required to file data with the FCC twice a year (Form 477) on where they offer Internet access service at speeds exceeding 200 kbps in at least one direction. | Link | 6/2014 - 2017 | block |
| FDIC - Mid-Sized Lenders Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) | Economy | A comprehensive summary of the most current financial results for the banking industry, along with feature articles. | Link | 1984-2019 | point |
| FHFA - Duty to Serve Rural Areas Data Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) | Program Eligibility | The Duty to Serve Program will award Duty to Serve credit for very low-, low-, and moderate income families tied to specific high needs and high opportunity areas as defined by the Duty to Serve regulation. | Link | 2016-2018 | tract |
| FHFA - High Opportunity Areas Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) | Program Eligibility | The Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 establishes a duty for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) to serve the housing needs of very low-, low-, and moderate-income families in three specified underserved markets – manufactured housing, affordable housing preservation, and rural housing. FHFA’s Duty to Serve regulation provides eligibility for extra credit for Enterprise activities that promote “residential economic diversity,” as defined in the regulation. Residential economic diversity activities include Enterprise activities in connection with mortgages on affordable housing in “high opportunity areas,” as defined in the regulation and FHFA’s Duty to Serve Evaluation Guidance. FHFA’s 2017 High Opportunity Areas File designates the specific census tracts that qualify as high opportunity areas for purposes of the Duty to Serve program. | Link | 2017 | tract |
| FMT - Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) Flex Monitoring Team (FMT) | Health | The national CAH database provides the name, location, size, and date of certification for all 1,300+ CAHs in the U.S. | Link | 2004-2019 | point |
| HRSA - Area Health Resources Files Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) | Health | This dataset contains information on health facilities, health professions, measures of resource scarcity, health status, economic activity, health training programs, and socioeconomic and environmental characteristics. | Link | 2017-2018 | county |
| HUD - High Opportunity Areas Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) | Program Eligibility | The Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 establishes a duty for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) to serve the housing needs of very low-, low-, and moderate-income families in three specified underserved markets – manufactured housing, affordable housing preservation, and rural housing. FHFA’s Duty to Serve regulation provides eligibility for extra credit for Enterprise activities that promote “residential economic diversity,” as defined in the regulation. Residential economic diversity activities include Enterprise activities in connection with mortgages on affordable housing in “high opportunity areas,” as defined in the regulation and FHFA’s Duty to Serve Evaluation Guidance. FHFA’s 2017 High Opportunity Areas File designates the specific census tracts that qualify as high opportunity areas for purposes of the Duty to Serve program. | Link | 2017 | polygon |
| HUD - Income Limits Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) | Program Eligibility | These are 30% Income Limits, calculated with high and low housing cost adjustments, state non-metropolitan minimum but without the increases for poverty guidelines in the Section 8 Extremely Low Family Incomes | Link | 1990-2019 | county |
| Inclusiv - Community Development Credit Union (CDCU) Inclusiv | Economy | Link | |||
| NHPD - Dataset National Housing Preservation Database (NHPD) | Housing | The National Housing Preservation Database (NHPD) was created by the Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC) and the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) in 2011 in an effort to provide communities with the information they need to effectively preserve their stock of public and affordable housing. | Link | latest | point (address) |
| RHI - Am I Rural Tool Rural Health Information Hub (RHI) | Health | Interactive map for exploring county-level data on issues that impact rural health, including rural demographics, health disparities, the health workforce, and other topics. | Link | latest | tract |
| SAMHSA - Drug Treatment Facilities HHS - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) | Health | Eligible substance use and addiction treatment facilities provided by SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) | Link | latest | point |
| SUSB - Business Starts and Stops Statistics of US Businesses (SUSB) | Economy | SUSB is an annual series that provides national and subnational data on the distribution of economic data by enterprise size and industry. | Link | 1988-2016 | county |
| UCSB - Tiger US Census Bureau (USCB) | Boundaries | The TIGER/Line Shapefiles contain a standard geographic identifier for each entity that links to the geographic identifier in the data from censuses and surveys. | Link | 2000-2018 | block |
| UNC - Rural Hospital Closures UNC - Sheps Center | Health | The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill collected 106 Rural Hospital Closures: January 2010 to Present followed the convention of the Office of Inspector General that a closed hospital. | Link | 2010-present | point |
| Urban Institute - USALEEP Urban Institute | Health | The USALEEP project produced estimates of life expectancy at birth—the average number of years a person can expect to live—for most of the census tracts in the United States for the period 2010-2015. | Link | tract | |
| US NPS - National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) US National Park Services (US NPS) | Environment | The official list of the Nation's historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America's historic and archeological resources. The National Register geospatial dataset is intended to be a comprehensive inventory of all cultural resources that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. However, this dataset excludes all features deemed 'restricted' or 'sensitive', such as sensitive archaeological sites. | Link | 2014-2018 | point, polygon |
| USCB - ACS 1YR US Census Bureau (USCB) | Demographics | The American Community Survey (ACS) is an ongoing survey that provides vital information on a yearly basis about our nation and its people. Information from the survey generates data that help determine how more than $675 billion in federal and state funds are distributed each year. Through the ACS, we know more about jobs and occupations, educational attainment, veterans, whether people own or rent their homes, and other topics. Public officials, planners, and entrepreneurs use this information to assess the past and plan the future. When you respond to the ACS, you are doing your part to help your community plan for hospitals and schools, support school lunch programs, improve emergency services, build bridges, and inform businesses looking to add jobs and expand to new markets, and more. The American Community Survey (ACS) Summary File is a set of comma-delimited text files that contain all of the Detailed Tables for the ACS 1-year, 3-year, and 5-year data releases. Summary File estimates, margins of error, and geography files for each release are available via the Summary File Data page. The Detailed Tables are stored in a series of files with only the data from the tables and without such information as the table title, description of the rows, or geographic identifiers. That information is located in other files that the user must merge with the data files to reproduce full tables. Starting with the 2009-2013 ACS 5-year data release, block groups, the lowest level of geography published by the ACS, are available in American FactFinder. For earlier years, block groups are available only in the ACS 5-year Summary File. | Link | 2006-2017 | county |
| USCB - ACS 5YR US Census Bureau (USCB) | Demographics | The American Community Survey (ACS) is an ongoing survey that provides vital information on a yearly basis about our nation and its people. Information from the survey generates data that help determine how more than $675 billion in federal and state funds are distributed each year. Through the ACS, we know more about jobs and occupations, educational attainment, veterans, whether people own or rent their homes, and other topics. Public officials, planners, and entrepreneurs use this information to assess the past and plan the future. When you respond to the ACS, you are doing your part to help your community plan for hospitals and schools, support school lunch programs, improve emergency services, build bridges, and inform businesses looking to add jobs and expand to new markets, and more. The American Community Survey (ACS) Summary File is a set of comma-delimited text files that contain all of the Detailed Tables for the ACS 1-year, 3-year, and 5-year data releases. Summary File estimates, margins of error, and geography files for each release are available via the Summary File Data page. The Detailed Tables are stored in a series of files with only the data from the tables and without such information as the table title, description of the rows, or geographic identifiers. That information is located in other files that the user must merge with the data files to reproduce full tables. Starting with the 2009-2013 ACS 5-year data release, block groups, the lowest level of geography published by the ACS, are available in American FactFinder. For earlier years, block groups are available only in the ACS 5-year Summary File. | Link | 2006-2017 | polygon |
| USCB - CES - Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) USCB - Center for Economic Studies (CES) | Economy | The source data for the QWI is the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) linked employer-employee microdata. The LEHD data is massive longitudinal database covering over 95% of U.S. private sector jobs. Much of this data is collected via a unique federal-state data sharing collaboration, the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) partnership. LED is a cooperative venture between the LEHD program at the U.S. Census Bureau and state agencies of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Partner states voluntarily submit quarterly data files from existing administrative record systems, which are combined with a range of other data sources to generate public use products, including QWI and LODES (LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics, presented in OnTheMap) and other new products in development. By integrating data used to administer public programs with existing census and surveys, a new national jobs database is generated at very low cost and with no additional respondent burden. | Link | 1990-2017 | county |
| USDA - Economic Research Service (ERS) US Department of Agriculture (USDA) | Economy | The Atlas of Rural and Small-Town America provides statistics by broad categories of socioeconomic factors: People: Demographic data from the American Community Survey (ACS), including age, race and ethnicity, migration and immigration, education, household size, and family composition. Jobs: Economic data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and other sources, including information on employment trends, unemployment, and industrial composition of employment from the ACS. County classifications: The rural-urban continuum, economic dependence, persistent poverty, persistent child poverty, population loss, onshore oil/natural gas counties, and other ERS county typology codes. Income: Data on median household income, per capita income, and poverty (including child poverty). Veterans: Data on veterans, including service period, education, unemployment, income, and demographic characteristics. | Link | county | |
| USDOT - National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD) US Department of Transportation (USDOT) | Transportation | The National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD), published by BTS, is a set of nationwide geographic databases of transportation facilities, transportation networks, and associated infrastructure. | Link | 1995-present | point, polyline |
| USDT - Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) US Department of the Treasury (USDT) | Deployed Funds | Transaction Level Report: A catalog of CDFI investments from 2003 - 2015. Included are microbusiness loans, real estate (single family and multifamily) and a range of variable about the investee. | Link | 2003-2015 | tract |
| USDT - Opportunity Zones (OZ) US Department of the Treasury (USDT) | Program Eligibility | Based on nominations of eligible census tracts by the Chief Executive Officers of each State, Treasury has completed its designation of Qualified Opportunity Zones. Each State nominated the maximum number of eligible tracts, per statute, and these designations are final. The statute and legislative history of the Opportunity Zone designations, under IRC § 1400Z, do not contemplate an opportunity for additional or revised designations after the maximum number of zones allowable have been designated in a State or Territory. | Link | latest | tract |
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