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Money18 datasets

LA 2028 Games Cost Ledger

Every published figure that bears on what the 2028 Games will cost the City of Los Angeles, typed so only city costs sum, plus the venue list attached to the city's reimbursement agreement with LA28.

24 ledger rows, 20 venues
Updated 6 files, 28 KB

LA 2028 Games Policing

Officer requirements for the 2028 Games set against regional sworn strength from 1991 to 2025, the 107-vehicle salvage schedule behind the Council's September 2026 borrowing, and a fact sheet.

107 vehicles, 51 facts
Updated 8 files, 31 KB

LA Income Inequality Panel, 1979-2024

Los Angeles County income inequality from 1979–2024: reconstructed Gini estimates, quintile shares, real medians, homeownership and wealth data.

51 geography-years
Updated 8 files, 92 KB

LA Candidate Donor Base Panel

Los Angeles city candidacies since 2000, with donor counts, gift patterns, repeat donors, self-funding and donor-base ranks.

632 candidacies
Updated 5 files, 0.1 MB

LA Committee Money Structure

Ethics Commission committee-cycle filings, with receipts, donor counts, top-donor concentration, committee type and coverage notes.

868 rows
Updated 6 files, 0.2 MB

LA Council District Money Origins

Money raised by 147 council campaigns, split between the district, the rest of Los Angeles and outside the city, with ZIP-to-district flows.

15,651 rows
Updated 8 files, 0.4 MB

LA Lobbying Tied to Council Files

$1.159 billion in lobbying payments linked to reported council files, with confidence scores, split factors and upper bounds.

24,334 rows
Updated 8 files, 3.2 MB

LA Behested Payments, Cleaned

Behested-payment reports with parsed dates, industry and foreign-government flags, plus each payor's lobbying and campaign totals.

3,096 reports
Updated 6 files, 1.2 MB

The Oak Pass File

Lobbying payments and project records for the LLC behind 9712 Oak Pass Road, with ambiguity flags, opposition filings and a citywide rank.

271 payment rows
Updated 12 files, 0.2 MB

LA Cost of Living, 1940 to 2026

Los Angeles home values, rents, household income and minimum wage at six benchmarks from 1940 to 2026, in 2026 dollars.

6 benchmark years
Updated 10 files, 0.1 MB

LA Mayor's Race Money Tally

Weekly donor, public-match and independent-expenditure totals for both mayoral runoff candidates, with disclosure dates and transaction-date coverage.

weekly, both candidates
Updated 1 file, 5 KB

LA Lobbying Client Leaderboard

Los Angeles lobbying clients resolved and ranked across $1.159 billion in payments, with the top 200 and the rules used to merge client names.

$1.159B tracked
Updated 9 files, 1.4 MB

LAUSD Outside Money

The complete 2024 LAUSD board cycle: candidate and independent committees, outside-spending communications, duplicates and certified results.

513 IE records
Updated 10 files, 0.2 MB

LA Donor Breadth Panel

Los Angeles donors scored for reach across 25 elected offices, contribution caps, opposing sides and committee concentration.

172,374 donors
Updated 9 files, 30.8 MB

LA Campaign Vendor Panel

Every dollar Los Angeles campaign committees reported paying out since 1998, resolved to the firm or person paid, sliceable by payee, client, office, cycle and service category.

1,468,657 payment rows
Updated 9 files, 782.1 MB

LA Golf Club Assessments

Every golf-coded parcel in Los Angeles County against the assessment roll, with land and improvement values, base years, reassessment reason codes, ownership form and independently measured acreage.

526 parcels, 29 city courses
Updated 7 files, 0.3 MB

LA City Payroll Panel

Person-level City of Los Angeles pay 2017-2026 with an aggregate extension to 2013: department-year panels, overtime leaderboards, above-the-mayor counts and DWP pay comparisons, in nominal and constant 2025 dollars.

51 departments, 13 years
Updated 10 files, 0.1 MB

LA Total Cost of Programs

Published and fully allocated costs for every Los Angeles department, including pensions, benefits, liability, utilities and capital.

39 departments
Updated 5 files, 13 KB

Politics28 datasets

LA County Population Projection, 2025-2125

Los Angeles County population scenarios for 2025–2125, with age structure, fertility, migration assumptions and comparison to the state projection.

101 projected years, 4 scenarios
Updated 19 files, 1.5 MB

LA Neighborhood Transit Use

Transit use, commute modes, car access, income and Metro service for 272 county neighborhoods, with reliability and uncertainty measures.

272 neighborhoods, 45 columns
Updated 5 files, 76 KB

LA Downtown Jobs Extract

Jobs at workplaces in all 114 Los Angeles neighborhoods and 143 LA County places, with block-concentration measures, a 2019–2023 series and six stress tests of the ranking.

114 neighborhoods, 28 columns
Updated 8 files, 59 KB

LA Housing by Member Tenure

Housing permits by sitting councilmember tenure, including annual rates, completions, ADU share and existing-stock share.

15 members
Updated 1 file, 2 KB

LA Affordable Housing Panel

Affordable, federally assisted, rent-stabilized and HHH housing by district and available neighborhood, with program dates and location limits.

34,017 covenanted units
Updated 38 files, 0.9 MB

LA Neighborhood Affordability Panel

Rent, renter income and rent burden for every Los Angeles neighborhood and district, using pooled Census estimates with uncertainty flags.

114 neighborhoods, 15 districts
Updated 4 files, 0.1 MB

LA Eviction Notice Registry

Every eviction notice in the city's public registry extract, placed on the 114 neighborhoods, with filing-event and parcel counts, rates per 100 renter households, and the open-data series set against LAHD's own monthly counts. A notice doesn't mean the tenant was evicted.

99,832 notices
Updated 9 files, 15.5 MB

LA Rent-Stabilized Housing Panel

Rent-stabilized units by council district, compared with covenanted affordable housing and building types. One building can fall under more than one program, so the counts can't be added together.

661,851 units
Updated 15 files, 50 KB

LA Vacancy Panel

Vacant homes and the Census Bureau's seven vacancy categories for the city, the county, 15 council districts, 114 neighborhoods and 99 neighborhood councils, each with margins and a reliability flag, plus the 30 largest U.S. cities for comparison and an audit of the vacant-homes-per-homeless-person claim.

234,017 vacant homes
Updated 13 files, 3.0 MB

LA Council Websites Corpus

Full text and dates from all 15 council district websites, with posting cadence, distinctive vocabulary and topic categories.

1,392 posts
Updated 14 files, 5.2 MB

LA Work, Commute and Education

Work, commute, education, employment and rent-burden measures for 2,498 county tracts, aggregated to council districts.

143 columns
Updated 10 files, 1.9 MB

LA Council Roll-Call Database

Every recorded Los Angeles City Council roll call from July 2003 through August 2026: 124,331 roll calls and 1.86 million member-votes. Compare recorded votes and absences by councilmember, meeting date and council item.

1.86M member-votes
Updated 11 files, 140.2 MB

LA Council Attendance

Council attendance derived from recorded votes, by member, year, month, meeting day and agenda length.

40,583 member-days
Updated 11 files, 10.0 MB

LA Metro Board Attendance

Metro director attendance and votes since 2015, verified against official minutes and Legistar with date-specific seat eligibility.

47,868 director positions
Updated 15 files, 7.5 MB

LA Board of Public Works Attendance

Board of Public Works votes and attendance since 2016, plus meeting calendars and commissioner rosters back to 2001.

41,362 commissioner positions
Updated 14 files, 6.2 MB

LA Commission Appointees and Their Donations

Everyone appointed to the seven boards that run city departments since 2013, joined to their campaign contributions to the appointing mayor, with per-match verdicts.

235 appointment cycles
Updated 10 files, 0.3 MB

LA Council Member Scorecard

Attendance, peer-adjusted dissent, annual trends and voting blocs for all 46 councilmembers since 2003.

46 members
Updated 9 files, 5.7 MB

LA Officials Form 700

Disclosed holdings for 29 Los Angeles city and county officials, parsed from amended Form 700 schedules.

347 holdings
Updated 10 files, 0.3 MB

LA Special Fund Subsidy Panel

Five years of Los Angeles special-fund subsidies, joined to fund receipts and General Fund support.

169 fund-years
Updated 12 files, 0.4 MB

LA Parks by District

All 493 city parks by district and neighborhood, with unioned acreage, size, population rates and half-mile access, with and without Griffith Park.

493 park sites
Updated 11 files, 0.5 MB

LA Transit Access by District

Metro stations, stops, weekday service and nearby population by district, neighborhood council and Los Angeles neighborhood.

15 districts, 99 councils, 114 neighborhoods
Updated 14 files, 1.4 MB

LA County Transit Ridership

Metro line ridership since 2009 and monthly service and productivity for all 17 fixed-route county operators.

114 lines, 17 operators
Updated 5 files, 1.2 MB

US Microtransit Cost Comparison

Federally reporting U.S. public microtransit programs for 2023–24, separated from ADA paratransit, with the fields used to classify each program.

143 programs, 4,081 universe rows
Updated 7 files, 1.1 MB

LA 311 Bulky Pickup Panel

Los Angeles bulky-item pickup performance by district from 2023–26, including standardized medians, cycle shares and six correlation tests.

674,480 requests (2024)
Updated 8 files, 0.2 MB

LA Observed Airbnb Listings, 2015-2026

Sixty-three Los Angeles Airbnb snapshots from 2015–26, with neighborhood trends, listing changes, stay rules, density and pricing. Prices aren't comparable over time.

2.35M listing-observations
Updated 22 files, 1.5 MB

Metro Bike Share Trips, 2016-2026

Metro Bike Share trips through June 2026, with standardized trips, stations, flows, routes, detours, speeds and documented coordinate defects.

3.24M rides
Updated 20 files, 123.4 MB

LA County Contract Services

Los Angeles County services sold to cities, including Sheriff patrol contracts and department-level cost-recovery revenue.

42 cities, 16 revenue lines
Updated 5 files, 9 KB

Elections6 datasets

LA Precinct Model Panel

Five elections of crosswalked precinct turnout, demographics, registration and correlations.

739 precincts
Updated 29 files, 24.9 MB

LA Coalition Profiles

Vote-weighted neighborhood profiles for 77 campaigns across five elections, with demographics, turnout, voting method and uncertainty, describing the neighborhoods that backed each campaign rather than individual voters.

77 contests
Updated 16 files, 3.1 MB

LA Precinct Election Panel

Clean precinct results for 97 Los Angeles contests from 2020–26, aggregated to neighborhoods and districts and reconciled to certified totals.

97 contests
Updated 44 files, 85.7 MB

Every LA Mayoral Election

Results for all 62 rounds of 41 Los Angeles mayoral elections since 1896, with turnout, margins, undervotes and source corrections.

396 candidacies
Updated 9 files, 95 KB

Every LA Council Election

Every Los Angeles City Council contest since the 1925 charter seated 15 districts: incumbents, outcomes, entry and exit methods, tenure, certified votes from 2001, and source corrections.

101 years, 15 districts
Updated 11 files, 0.2 MB

LA Turnout by Neighborhood

Certified June 2026 turnout for 99 neighborhood councils and 739 precincts, with registration, rolloff and a counterfactual with equal turnout everywhere.

739 precincts
Updated 10 files, 0.8 MB

Crime7 datasets

LA Crime Incident Series, 2010 to 2026

LAPD incidents from 2010–26 on one offense hierarchy, with transition flags, rates and district and neighborhood geography.

3.48M incidents
Updated 35 files, 158.7 MB

LA Freeway Crashes

CHP-recorded freeway crashes in Los Angeles from 2017 through August 2026, with location, time, direction, cause and tow-away status.

153,305 crashes
Updated 1 file, 23.4 MB

LA Calls for Service by District

LAPD calls for service since 2024 by reporting district, initiation source and call family, with unmapped records excluded.

3.03M mapped calls
Updated 2 files, 0.1 MB

LAPD Air Support Flights

Community-received LAPD helicopter positions from August 2025–26, with flights, orbit sensitivity and dwell time by geography. Receivers miss some flights, and they miss more in some areas than others.

20.9M positions
Updated 45 files, 642.5 MB

LA County Mapped License Plate Readers

OpenStreetMap license-plate readers by Los Angeles County city, with per-area and per-capita rates. Only cameras someone has mapped are counted, so these are minimums.

88 cities, 3,127 readers
Updated 4 files, 0.3 MB

US Police Department Comparison Panel

Comparable budgets, staffing, crime and clearance measures for 15 agencies, including pension accounting and crime-reporting changes.

15 agencies, 225 agency-years
Updated 10 files, 0.2 MB

US Fire Department Comparison Panel

Budgets, staffing, stations, calls and medical-response shares for fire departments in 15 jurisdictions, including patient-transport responsibility.

15 departments
Updated 7 files, 0.2 MB

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