Data sources and refresh log

Datasets

• Electricity retail sales, revenue, price, and customers (annual, residential sector)

  U.S. Energy Information Administration

  Retail electricity data are published at the state level. County profiles display the statewide value and label it as such.

  Geographic resolution

  State

  Used for

  Residential electricity price in cents per kilowatt-hour, Residential sales, revenue, and customer counts, Calculated average monthly residential consumption, Calculated average monthly residential electricity cost

  Last refreshed here

  Not available

  DatasetDocumentation

• Natural gas prices, residential sector

  U.S. Energy Information Administration

  Geographic resolution

  State

  Used for

  Residential natural gas price

  Last refreshed here

  Not available

  DatasetDocumentation

• American Community Survey 5-year estimates

  U.S. Census Bureau

  Five-year estimates are used so every county has coverage. Estimates carry margins of error.

  Geographic resolution

  State and county

  Used for

  Median household income and per capita income, Median gross rent, median home value, median owner costs, Housing-cost burden and rent burden, Real-estate taxes paid, used for the effective property-tax measure, Mean commute time and vehicle availability

  Last refreshed here

  Not available

  DatasetDocumentation

• Cartographic boundary files

  U.S. Census Bureau

  Geographic resolution

  State and county

  Used for

  State, county, and county-equivalent map boundaries, Five-digit county FIPS identifiers

  Last refreshed here

  Not available

  Dataset

• Regional Price Parities

  Bureau of Economic Analysis

  Metropolitan-area values are not county values and are never presented as directly reported county data.

  Geographic resolution

  State and metropolitan area

  Used for

  Purchasing-power context, Goods, housing, utilities, and services price levels

  Last refreshed here

  Not available

  Dataset

• State and local tax rate import

  MustWants administrative import

  No freely reusable nationwide tax-rate API exists, so these values are loaded through an administrator-controlled import and each row carries its own citation.

  Geographic resolution

  State

  Used for

  State general sales tax rate, Average local sales tax rate, State individual income tax top marginal rate

  Last refreshed here

  Not available

EIA provider records

The exact records returned by the EIA v2 API, kept for audit: period, state code, sector code, price, sales, revenue, customers, the reported units, retrieval time, frequency, and whether the release is preliminary or final.

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