| Source | Granularity | Update Cadence | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|
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Census County Business Patterns
Establishments, employment, and payroll by county x industry (NAICS).
|
County | Annual | 2026-07-20 |
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BLS QCEW
Employment and wages by county x industry x quarter.
|
County | Quarterly | 2026-07-19 |
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NCEI Climate (GSOM)
Monthly temperature, precipitation, and snow summaries by county.
|
County | Monthly | 2026-07-19 |
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FBI Agency Directory
Nationwide law-enforcement agency roster (ORI). County crosswalk not yet built.
|
Agency | As needed | 2026-07-18 |
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Indeed Hiring Lab (Metro)
Job postings index by metro area (CBSA).
|
Metro (CBSA) | Weekly | 2026-07-18 |
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Indeed Hiring Lab (State)
Job postings index by state.
|
State | Weekly | 2026-07-18 |
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FRED State Unemployment
State-level unemployment rate.
|
State | Monthly | never |
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EIA State Electricity
State-level retail electricity prices.
|
State | Monthly | never |
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FEMA National Risk Index
Composite natural-hazard risk score by county.
|
County | Periodic (FEMA release cycle) | 2026-07-19 |
|
County Election Returns
Presidential election results by county.
|
County | Every election cycle (~2 years) | 2026-07-18 |
|
Fed Beige Book (full text)
Regional economic conditions narrative, one report per Fed district.
|
Fed district (12) | ~8x/year | 2026-07-30 |
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Fed Beige Book (sentiment)
Extracted tone + per-sector direction/evidence from the Beige Book text.
|
Fed district (12) | ~8x/year | 2026-07-30 |
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FRED Fed Funds Target Range
FOMC target range, upper (DFEDTARU) and lower (DFEDTARL) bound. 12-month lookback, not full history.
|
National | Daily (changes only on FOMC decisions) | 2026-07-30 |
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Census ACS: Language
Language spoken at home (S1601) by county.
|
County | Annual | 2026-07-18 |
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Census ACS: Population
Total population (B01003) by county, all 50 states + DC + PR -- the per-capita denominator for other sources. Independent of metro/edition coverage.
|
County | Annual | 2026-07-20 |
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Census Island Areas: Population
2020 Island Areas Census population for Guam/American Samoa/N. Mariana Islands/USVI -- the 4 territories ACS5 doesn't cover at all. One-time vintage, not annual.
|
County-equivalent (district/municipality/island) | Decennial (2020) | 2026-07-20 |
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FHFA House Price Index
Home price index by metro area (CBSA). County file is XLSX-only, not ingested.
|
Metro (CBSA) | Quarterly | 2026-07-18 |
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CDC PLACES
County-level health measure estimates (crude + age-adjusted prevalence).
|
County | Annual | 2026-07-18 |
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County Boundary Geometries
Reference polygons every spatial join (BLM, etc.) runs through. Rarely changes.
|
County | As needed | 2026-07-20 |
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BLM Mining Claims
Active mining claims by county (spatial join against county geometries).
|
County | As needed | never |
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Census Business Formation Statistics
County-level file is XLSX-only; the clean API is national-only. Not built.
|
National (blocked at county) | — | never |
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Patents (PatentsView/PEDS)
Schema and company/person resolution columns exist; no ingest service built yet.
|
Company/person | — | never |
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Housing Starts
New residential construction (starts/permits/completions) by unit type. Census's clean API is national-only -- not even Census region is exposed, despite general docs implying region-level exists.
|
National only | Monthly | 2026-07-19 |
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New Home Sales
New single-family houses sold, for-sale inventory, median/average price. Same national-only API restriction as Housing Starts.
|
National only | Monthly | 2026-07-19 |
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Building Permits (BPS)
Permits authorized by county -- a different metric from Housing Starts (authorized, not confirmed started), used as the county/metro/jurisdiction substitute since Starts/Sales don't go below national.
|
County | Monthly | 2026-07-19 |
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US Airports (OurAirports)
25,104 active US airports, all types (major hubs through small GA/private-jet fields) -- excludes closed airports.
|
Airport | As needed | never |
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DOE National Laboratories
The 17-lab DOE national laboratory system plus PNNL, JPL, and Frederick National Laboratory -- major federal R&D anchor institutions.
|
Company | As needed | never |
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Multi-State Regional Authorities
43 verified interstate compacts and joint authorities (transportation, river-basin/water, federal-state economic development, bi-state transit, natural-resource compacts) -- institutional evidence of functional regions that cross state lines.
|
Company | As needed | never |
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Convening Institutes
Aspen Institute and 14 peer convening/leadership institutes (CFR, Milken Institute, Wilson Center, Atlantic Council, etc.).
|
Company | As needed | never |
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Policy Think Tanks
12 major US policy think tanks spanning the ideological spectrum (Heritage, Cato, AEI, Brookings, CAP, RAND, etc.). Not useful for Oluwadi/Osparna venture-intelligence surfacing in most cases -- primarily relevant here, to DoAyni's civic-influence layer.
|
Company | As needed | never |
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Civil Society / Advocacy Organizations
14 major US advocacy/civil-society organizations across causes (ACLU, NAACP, AIPAC, NRA, Sierra Club, etc.). Not useful for Oluwadi/Osparna venture-intelligence surfacing in most cases -- primarily relevant here, to DoAyni's civic-influence layer.
|
Company | As needed | never |
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Census LODES: Residence Area Characteristics (RAC)
County-level workforce profile of RESIDENTS regardless of workplace -- age, earnings, NAICS sector, race, ethnicity, education, sex. All 51 states + DC.
|
County | Annual (per-state publish lag; most recent available per state) | never |
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Census LODES: Workplace Area Characteristics (WAC)
County-level workforce profile of JOBS regardless of residence -- same breakdown as RAC, plus firm age/size (only populated for All-Private-Jobs job type, zero here since this build uses All Jobs for OD-loader consistency). All 51 states + DC.
|
County | Annual (per-state publish lag; most recent available per state) | never |