Instrument · Money
Your block
Type an address and get the city as it applies there: the district, the neighborhood council, the precinct, and what the city does when someone calls.
Interactives
Instruments rather than articles. Each one takes a dataset we built and hands you the controls, so the question you get to ask is your own: your block, your district, your line, your year.
All interactives
What Los Angeles cost
Forty-six years of housing, wages, gas, power and groceries, measured in the hours you had to work to pay for them.
The strongest neighborhood for each candidate
What Bass's, Raman's and Pratt's best ground actually looks like, from $60,300 a household to $202,400.
Where each campaign's votes came from
Every 2026 city contest, mapped precinct by precinct, with the neighborhood profile behind each coalition and an honest error bar on every profile share.
The property tax dollar
Where the city's property tax comes from, rebuilt from 806,127 parcels, including the share that belongs to no district at all.
Your Government
Every elected office that covers an address, who holds each seat, what each office handles, and how to reach them. Free for any site to embed.
Every transit line in Los Angeles County
All 114 Metro lines ranked by ridership, and every other operator in the county beside them. Metro is the only one that publishes a single route.
The 30-night line
Sixty-eight real observations of where Los Angeles Airbnb listings sit against the 30-night line its own ordinance draws.
VideosFilms drawn frame by frame out of the public record.GamesAsk what you actually know about the country you live in.EverythingFilms, games and instruments on one page.
8 interactives, all built from public records. Every dataset behind them is in Basin Data.