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Videos, games and interactive tools, all made from the same public records as the reporting.

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Where Los Angeles flies

Thirty-five years of international traffic at LAX, one month at a time: monthly passenger rankings for 244 destinations, 1990 to 2026.

Videos

24 hours of LAX operations

Every aircraft that moved on the ground at Los Angeles International in one ordinary Wednesday: 1,473 movements, drawn from the aircraft’s own position broadcasts.

Where Los Angeles builds

The neighborhoods finishing the most homes, month by month: a rolling twelve-month count for every part of the city, 2016 to 2026.

The homes Los Angeles built

Every home the city finished since 2016, added up neighborhood by neighborhood: 97,914 in all, a fifth of them downtown.

Games

Bigger

Did you know that LA County has more people living in it than Austria?

Interactives

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.

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.

Roll Call

How often all fifteen councilmembers and the Mayor are actually in the room, across the floor, their committees, the Metro board, the LAHSA commission and the South Coast AQMD board.