Journalist Data Packs

Downloadable packs for journalists and researchers: every published dashboard's headline figures with vintages and citations, plus livability rankings where a rankings page exists. Figures are published exactly as shown on the dashboards; the generator never guesses, estimates, or substitutes a figure. A dashboard with no extractable headline section is listed in its state's coverage file with a reason — never filled from another dashboard or year.

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603 dashboards across 8 states. 521 carry headline figures (2959 figure rows in total); 82 are recorded as missing in their coverage files, with reasons.

Georgia

125 dashboards scanned: 52 with figures, 73 missing (58 with no headline section, 15 with a section but no extractable figures). Livability rankings: 159 rows.

Kansas

180 dashboards scanned: 171 with figures, 9 missing (9 with no headline section, 0 with a section but no extractable figures). Livability rankings: 79 rows.

California

82 dashboards scanned: 82 with figures, 0 missing. Livability rankings: 58 rows.

New York

84 dashboards scanned: 84 with figures, 0 missing. Livability rankings: no rankings page published for this state yet, so no rankings file.

Florida

88 dashboards scanned: 88 with figures, 0 missing. Livability rankings: no rankings page published for this state yet, so no rankings file.

District of Columbia

1 dashboards scanned: 1 with figures, 0 missing. Livability rankings: no rankings page published for this state yet, so no rankings file.

Alabama

23 dashboards scanned: 23 with figures, 0 missing. Livability rankings: no rankings page published for this state yet, so no rankings file.

Alaska

20 dashboards scanned: 20 with figures, 0 missing. Livability rankings: no rankings page published for this state yet, so no rankings file.

How to cite

If you use this data, please cite Hometown Numbers (hometownnumbers.com) and the source document named in the source_citation column for each figure you use. Figures are published as shown on the dashboards; please check any figure against its cited source document before republication.

How these packs are made

Each pack is generated from the dashboard files themselves at deploy time, and regenerated fresh with every deploy — no pack file is ever hand-edited. When a new pack differs from the previous one, changed figures are review flags, not auto-accepts: a changed headline figure means the dashboard changed, and the dashboard's own verification must have covered it. Each state's methodology note carries the full schema, provenance rules, and regeneration design.