What data sources are available in mySidewalk?

mySidewalk collects, cleans, transforms, calculates, and updates data from thousands of raw data tables to create a unified data system. You can browse the raw data sources below, which are organized by their respective update month and frequency.

When do data sources update?

Data updates or is added to mySidewalk on a near-weekly basis. Each individual data source updates on an annual, biannual, rolling, and even monthly update intervals, which works out to new data in mySidewalk on a near-weekly basis.
Updates are dependent upon the data being available from the provider. Delays by the provider are often not posted or communicated and some providers don't announce when new data is available. mySidewalk works to turn around new data quickly once it is made available, typically within 4 business weeks.

Data Source Update Index

The following table is organized by the expected month in which each data source annually updates. For this year's running list of data updates and data additions, check out Data Releases.

January	February
March	April
May	June
July	August
September	October
November	December
Every Month	Irregular

January

Drug Poisoning Mortality in the United States
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Picture of Subsidized Household
US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

Social Vulnerability Index (SVI)
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ASTDR)
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Buprenorphine [to treat opioid dependency] Practitioner Locator
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

February

March

Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR)
US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

Census Transportation Planning Product (CTPP)
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)
US Census Bureau

National Housing Preservation Database (NHPD)
Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC)
National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC)

April

AIDSVu
Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health

Annual Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS)
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
US Department of Commerce

Fixed Broadband Deployment Data from Form 477
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

HOME Investment Partnerships Program
US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

May

National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP)
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

June

County Business Patterns (CBP) and ZIP Codes Business Patterns (ZBP)
US Census Bureau

Food Access Research Atlas
US Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Low- and Moderate-Income Summary Data (LMISD)
US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW)
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
US Department of Commerce

Small Business Administration (SBA)
Small Business Loans (SBL)

July

EDFacts
US Department of Education (ED)

Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC)
US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Mapping Medicare Disparities by Population
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Medicare Part D Opioid Prescribing Rates
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

National Risk Index (NRI)
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

PatentsView
US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

August

Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS)
US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES)
Workplace Area Characteristics (WAC)
Center for Economic Studies
US Census Bureau
School Proficiency Index
US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

September

Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA)
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC)
Loan/Application Register
Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD)
US Department of Housing and Urban Development (USDOT)

October

Access Across America - Transit
University of Minnesota

Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) **Every 2 years in even years**
US Department of Education (ED)

Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS)
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)

National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES)
National Provider Identifier (NPI)
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program
Crime in the U.S. (CIUS)
US Department of Justice (DOJ)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Wide-ranging ONline Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER)
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

November

Environmental Justice Mapping and Screening Tool (EJSCREEN)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Property Data
County Tax Assessors
ATTOM Data Solutions

December

American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year Estimates
US Census Bureau

Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
US Department of Commerce

PLACES (formerly 500 Cities): Local Data for Better Health Project
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Racially or Ethnically Concentrated Areas of Poverty (R/ECAP)
US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

Statistics of Income (SOI)
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Every Month

Monthly Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS)
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
US Department of Commerce

Every Quarter

GoDaddy
Venture Forward

Irregular

The following do not update every year and the exact month of update varies. Some are also a one-time data source that will not update.

Decennial Census (DC)
US Census Bureau 1990, 2000, 2010, 2020

Eviction Lab National Database
Princeton University

Food Environment Atlas
Economic Research Service (ERS)
US Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Health Professional Storage Areas (HPSA)
Health Resources Service Administration (HRSA)
Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP)

Local Area Transportation Characteristics for Households (LATCH Survey)
Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
US Department of Transportation (USDOT)

Location Affordability Index (LAI)
US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
US Department of Transportation (USDOT)

National Air Toxics Assessment (NATA)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Parks by Census Tract; ZIP Code
National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA)
openICPSR

Primary Care Service Area Project (PCSA)
Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) Data Warehouse

Qualified Opportunity Zones
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
US Department of the Treasury (USDT)

Smart Location Database (SLD)
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI)
Hazards & Vulnerability Research Institute
Department of Geography, University of South Carolina

Transportation Noise
Tether Data

US Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project (USALEEP)
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Check out Data Releases to read about the data already updated in the mySidewalk data library this year!