Trace every figure back to a release.

Inspect and download a place record

The public data explorer keeps each value beside its unit, period, definition and source key. The same bounded metro, county or city record can be downloaded as JSON or CSV without exposing internal tables or unpublished material.

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Release and published coverage catalog

This table is generated from the provenance stored with the current release. “Checked” says when RentMarker last revisited the publisher; it does not relabel an annual measure as monthly. Coverage counts only records that reached a published field.

County history retained as observations

Latest-value cards remain unchanged, while these source histories are stored as separate county-period observations. A blank disclosed by the publisher stays blank; it is counted in coverage but not converted to zero.

What the major source families contribute

• Zillow Research: repeatable home-value and observed-rent indexes across metro, county, city and ZIP geographies.
• HUD CHAS: direct county renter-household counts by HAMFI income band and housing cost-burden threshold, with HUD disclosure rounding preserved.
• US Census Bureau: population, household income, housing stock, permits, place relationships and official geography.
• Bureau of Labor Statistics: metro payroll or resident employment, county workplace jobs and wages, and direct OEWS metropolitan occupation employment and wage estimates.
• HUD: Fair Market Rents, Small Area Fair Market Rents and ZIP geography crosswalks.
• FEMA: hazard-specific and expected annual loss evidence normalized against exposed building value.
• IRS and HMDA: county migration flows and investor-purchase evidence from annual administrative records.
• Redfin and Realtor.com Research: downloadable market activity, inventory, listing and supply context where the geography is supported.
• FHFA and federal rate series: county price movement, mortgage-rate context and supporting historical measures.

How a dataset earns a place

A large brand name is not enough. A source must expose a reproducible release, useful geography, a stable definition and a lawful public research path. The pipeline keeps the publisher's measure distinct when another source answers a different question.

For example, CES payroll jobs, LAUS employed residents and QCEW county workplace jobs are all labor evidence, but they are not interchangeable. Zillow observed rent, HUD Fair Market Rent and Census contract rent are also labelled separately rather than collapsed into one unexplained value.

Freshness follows the publisher

Nightly checks can detect a new release; they cannot make an annual federal series monthly. Every displayed figure should be read with its release period. The pull date says when RentMarker fetched that release, not when the measured event happened.

Attribution, licensing and links

Census, BLS, HUD, FEMA, FHFA and other federal outputs are linked to their official publishers. Zillow, Redfin and Realtor.com Economic Research publish downloadable research datasets with their own attribution and use notices. Source names remain visible wherever their figures are discussed.

RentMarker publishes derived indicators, comparisons and small chart extracts; it does not present a copied bulk source file as its own product. A source link identifies provenance and does not imply that the publisher endorses RentMarker's score or interpretation.

Known coverage limits

• Observed rent coverage is thinner than price coverage and often starts later.
• Monthly metro labor and annual county labor measure different populations and workplaces.
• Federal agencies adopt geography vintages at different times, so codes require an official crosswalk.
• Annual income, migration, tax and hazard releases remain annual after a nightly rebuild.
• Private research downloads can revise history or retire a geography; previous published evidence is not silently used as if it were current.
• A missing or unsupported value remains n/a; another geography is not substituted merely to fill a card.

How to challenge a figure

First compare the page's source name, release period and pull date with the source publication. If the geography, period or transformation still appears wrong, send the page URL, exact figure and supporting release through the correction channel.

Reproducible errors are fixed in the shared pipeline so every affected location can be rebuilt. A one-off text edit is not a substitute for correcting the source relationship.