Have you ever wondered how many registered voters are in your
county? Or which county had the most farm acres planted this
season? Or how many children live in your county compared with a
neighboring county? Or how many miles of public roads are in your
community? CSAC has too! And now, updated answers to these
burning questions and much more are available in CSAC’s DataPile.
The DataPile is a compilation of
publicly available datapoints distilled to the county level. The
new version contains the most up-to-date information that is
currently available and updates the amazing data repository that
former CSAC Legislative Advocate and data guru Geoffrey Neill
originally built out. Available on CSAC’s website, this spreadsheet is
separated into seven separate sheets consolidating current
information about each county’s demographics, revenues and
expenditures, caseloads, and much more.
Links for the source data are available by clicking on the
headers of each dataset. These sources include, but are not
limited to, the United States Census Bureau, California
Department of Finance, the State Controller’s Office, California
Secretary of State, California Department of Justice, United
States Department of Agriculture, California Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation, California Department of Social
Services, plus many more. We recommend that you explore the
source data as many state and federal agencies include historical
data which may be useful.
While the DataPile spreadsheet is downloadable, we also recommend
checking the DataPile’s website to
ensure that you have the most current data available as we will
endeavor to keep the data updated and expand the datasets as more
information becomes available. We are anticipating a number of
refinements and additions to the DataPile in the immediate future
– stay tuned! For questions about the DataPile or to recommend
additional publicly available datasets for inclusion, please
contact Brian Cote.
