Data & API
We turn official records from thousands of US cities into structured facts - with a source on every one. Some of it exists nowhere else in machine-readable form. It powers real-estate neighborhood pages, newsroom investigations, academic research, and AI assistants that need to be right about local government.
Roll-call votes parsed from minutes - member, direction, outcome, theme - including cities with no vote API. Exclusive.
Per-student spending from districts' own state filings, current school year, with size-cohort medians.
Spending per resident by category, from official annual filings, comparable across similar-size cities.
FBI UCR/NIBRS counts and rates with multi-year trend, per agency.
Upcoming meetings, hearings, agendas, permits and land-use records, nationwide.
The descriptive AreaMatter Score and its pillars (bands, never a ranking) - the existing partner scope.
Keys are approval-only and scoped to your use case, with a term and a daily quota. Tell us what you’re building -the contact on our About page.
Terms honor the product’s rules: facts carry their source, and nothing licensed may be used to rank or rate a place or an official. How the data is built →