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
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)
February
Racially or Ethnically Concentrated Areas of Poverty (R/ECAP)
US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
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
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 CommerceSmall Business Administration (SBA)
Small Business Loans (SBL)
July
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
National Risk Index (NRI)Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC)
US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)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 BureauSchool Proficiency Index
US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)EDFacts
US Department of Education (ED)
September
Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA)
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC)
Loan/Application RegisterLongitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD)
US Department of Housing and Urban Development (USDOT)
October
Access Across America
University of MinnesotaCivil 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)Mapping Medicare Disparities (MMD) by Population
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 BureauBureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
US Department of CommercePLACES (formerly 500 Cities): Local Data for Better Health Project
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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, 2020Eviction 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 WarehouseQualified 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 DataUS 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!