AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Homeownership Rate

The homeownership rate is defined as the number of owner-occupied housing units divided by the total number of occupied housing units. The householder refers to the person in whose name the housing unit is owned. If the house is owned jointly, the person designated as the householder is the "reference person" to whom the relationship of all other household members, if any, is recorded by the U.S. census. Data is from the 2019-2023 American Community Survey 5-year estimates. The homeownership rates for specific race and ethnicity groups have widely varying margins of error depending on the sample size.
Homeless prevention - exit destination for prevention households

This dataset describes where households who are enrolled in an FHPAP program report they are going to be staying after exiting the program. These include the five categories in HMIS: homeless (a place not meant for human habitation), institutional (an institutional setting), temporary (staying with friends or family in a temporary situation), permanent (staying with friends and family or their own permanent housing), and other (exit interview not completed or unknown destination).
Heading Home Ramsey Homeless Dashboard [Archived]

These are the measures adopted by the Heading Home Ramsey Governing Board for tracking top level changes in homeless population and outcomes in the homeless services system. This data is used in the Heading Home Ramsey Community Dashboard Measures https://data.ramseycounty.us/stories/s/wwpp-7i2j. Except for the total county population and housing bed counts, all of the data are derived from the homeless management information system, known as HMIS. Not all homeless persons are served by agencies that use HMIS and therefore these measures do not necessarily cover all homeless persons. Many of the measures separate housing project types (shelter, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing) because of the different lengths of service and types of interventions. For definitions of standard project types for homeless services and other terms, see these descriptions at https://www.unitedtoendhomelessness.org/blog/types-of-housing-support-for-the-homeless . For more information about other homeless data and special reports visit Heading Home Ramsey's visit https://www.headinghomeramsey.org/stats-data.
Food Security Summary Data

High-level information on Food Security Programs within Ramsey County and Minnesota. Data from several source was combined to create this dataset. Figure 1 - https://map.feedingamerica.org/county/2019/overall/minnesota/county/ramsey. Figure 2 - https://www.feedingamerica.org/research/map-the-meal-gap/by-county; Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility query. Minnesota Department of Health. https://data.web.health.state.mn.us/frpl-query#. Accessed March 2022. Figure 3 - Cash, Food and Medical Assistance Programs: SNAP. Ramsey County. https://data.ramseycounty.us/stories/s/tk4b-u54x. Accessed March 2022. Figure 4 - https://www.ramseycounty.us/your-government/open-government/research-data/community-health-assessment/babies-children-families.
Youth Arrest Rates

Youth arrest data are from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension special request and does not include youth arrests by ethnicity. The only options for race categories are American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black/African American, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (suppressed due to low numbers), and White. There is no ‘other’ or ‘mixed race’ option. Youth population data are from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s Easy Access to Juvenile Populations (https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/ezapop/). Since youth arrests are only of youth 10-17 years old, so is the youth population data.
Yard Waste Data

Annual volume summary of yard waste materials brought to the Ramsey County yard waste collection sites. Brush collection started in 2004 and is only accepted at four sites: Arden Hills, Frank & Sims, Midway and White Bear. Site visit counts were discontinued after 2015. Grass & Leaves measured in tons, not cubic yards, starting in 2019. The Maplewood site closed in 2001.
Weekly Rates of Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19 Hospitalizations from the COVID-NET Surveillance System

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Hospitalization Surveillance Network (COVID-NET) is designed to conduct population-based surveillance for laboratory-confirmed COVID-19-associated hospitalizations among children and adults. COVID-NET, along with the Respiratory Syncytial Virus Hospitalization Surveillance Network (RSV-NET) and the Influenza Hospitalization Surveillance Network (FluSurv-NET), comprise the Respiratory Virus Hospitalization Surveillance Network (RESP-NET). The RESP-NET platforms have overlapping surveillance areas and use similar methods to collect data. COVID-NET is CDC’s source for important data on rates of hospitalizations associated with COVID-19. Hospitalization rates show how many people in the surveillance area are hospitalized with COVID-19, compared to the total number of people residing in that area.
Unclaimed Money

This is a list of unclaimed checks issued by Ramsey County. An unclaimed check, for the purposes of this dataset, is a check which has not been cashed or deposited by the payee within six months of being issued. If you are the payee and your check has been lost or destroyed please fill out this form (https://bit.ly/3i4PinM) and follow the included instructions to obtain a replacement check. If you have the check and need additional information prior to deposit, please e-mail askba@ramseycounty.us.
Share of Residents with Debt in Collections and Share of Student Loan Debt in Default

Data on County-Level Overall Debt from the Urban Institute's Data catalog (https://apps.urban.org/features/debt-interactive-map/?type=overall&variable=totcoll&state=27&county=27123). This dataset contains information derived from a random sample of deidentified, consumer-level records from a major credit bureau. The credit bureau data do not include information about race, so the white and people of color metrics are based on the racial makeup of zip codes within the geographic area (nation, state, county). Student loan debt is considered to be in default when required payments have not been made for a specified period – usually 270 days for federal loans. This indicator is published by Urban Institute for their Debt in America project. Previous indicator data from 2019 was for student loan debt in collections, but no federal student loans were referred for collection from March 2020 until May 2025, including those in default, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Share of Households Experiencing Severe Rent Burden

Severe rent burden is defined as households that spend more than half of their household income on rent. The National Equity Atlas publishes this indicator based on data from IPUMS. This indicator shows the share of households experiencing severe rent burden both below and above 200% of the federal poverty level (FPL), which was $55,500 for a family of 4 in 2022 (the year of this data sample), by race and ethnicity.
SARS-CoV-2 Variant Proportions

Data is from Health and Human Services Region 5 (MN, WI, IL, IN, MI, OH) To identify and track SARS-CoV-2 variants, CDC uses genomic surveillance. CDC's national genomic surveillance system collects SARS-CoV-2 specimens for sequencing through the National SARS-CoV-2 Strain Surveillance (NS3) program, as well as SARS-CoV-2 sequences generated by commercial or academic laboratories contracted by CDC and state or local public health laboratories. Viral genomic sequences are analyzed and classified as a particular variant. The proportions of variants in a population are estimated nationally, by HHS region, and by jurisdiction. The thousands of sequences analyzed every week through CDC’s national genomic sequencing and bioinformatics efforts fuel this comprehensive and population-based U.S. surveillance system established to identify and monitor the spread of variants. These data appear on the CDC COVID Data Tracker at the following URL: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions For more information on how these data are generated and used to provide estimates of variant proportions, please see the following references: Paul P, France AM, Aoki Y, et al. Genomic Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 Variants Circulating in the United States, December 2020–May 2021. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2021;70:846–850. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7023a3 Lambrou AS, Shirk P, Steele MK, et al. Genomic Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 Variants: Predominance of the Delta (B.1.617.2) and Omicron (B.1.1.529) Variants — United States, June 2021–January 2022. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2022;71:206–211. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7106a4
Saint Paul Redlining Parcels

Data provided by Mapping Inequality : Redlining in New Deal America. Robert K. Nelson, LaDale Winling, Richard Marciano, Nathan Connolly, et al., “Mapping Inequality,” American Panorama, ed. Robert K. Nelson and Edward L. Ayers, accessed December 14, 2020. Visit https://s3.amazonaws.com/holc/tiles/MN/StPaul/19XX/holc-scan.jpg for an image of this data.
RCAO Historical Charging Rate

Historical charging rate from 2009-2023, based on data available contemporaneous to the time of collection. Law enforcement refers cases to the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office (RCAO) based on the charge they believe is supported by the evidence they have gathered. These cases are reviewed by RCAO to determine if the charges are supported and appropriate. A charging rate is the percentage of files referred by law enforcement in a specific year that were charged with a crime through the justice system by RCAO.
Ramsey County Correctional Facility Populations

The Ramsey County Correctional Facility (RCCF) houses male and female adult residents who have been sentenced and who are committed by the Ramsey County Second Judicial District Court for up to one year. Prior to 2022, RCCF also contracted with Dakota County to board its sentenced and pre-sentenced female residents. However, in 2022, RCCF stopped housing Dakota women.
Ramsey County Attorney's Office Adult and Youth Referral and Charging Data

This data set includes adult and youth referrals from law enforcement, and charging data from the Ramsey County Attorney's Office. • Some referred cases are still pending review. • There may be multiple charges per case, and the lead charge is “Count 1”. • For adults, data primarily includes felony-level cases. With a few exceptions, misdemeanor and gross misdemeanor cases are prosecuted by city attorney offices. • For youth, data includes all levels of cases. • Data is based on the lead alleged violation in the case, both for referrals and petitions. • Age data is based on age at date of incident. • Race data is based on information provided in the referral and may be updated if we receive new information. There is a second data set for youth school attendance matters diversion; located here https://data.ramseycounty.us/Public-Safety-and-Justice/RCAO-Youth-SAM-Data/hqh4-qxri
Premature Death Rate Data

Premature death rate measures mortality by counting deaths at earlier ages more than deaths at later ages. For example, when a person dies at 20, this death contributes 55 years of potential life lost. In contrast, when a person dies at age 70, this death contributes only five years of potential life lost to a county. For our purposes, premature deaths occur before age 75. Counties with older populations are more likely to have higher crude premature death rates than counties with younger populations. Therefore, when age-adjusted, we remove the effect of differently aged populations as a risk factor for premature death. This allows us to make a fair comparison of premature death rates across counties.
Opioid nonfatal emergency/hospital visits by year

MDH receives approximately 95% of hospital discharge data from the Minnesota Hospital Association for all hospitals/emergency departments in Minnesota and North Dakota. The data consists of Ramsey County residents treated for nonfatal drug overdose of unintentional or undetermined intent. Nonfatal overdoses determined to be intentional (i.e., self-harm) are excluded unless explicitly noted. Data does not include nonfatal overdoses occurring out in the community; those treated by EMS and not transferred to a hospital; or visits at federal facilities (e.g., VA, IHS), tribally operated facilities, or other out-of-state facilities.
Opioid Deaths by Year (Drug Overdose Deaths)

Data come from Minnesota death certificates, with cause and manner of death information provided by a medical examiner or coroner. A drug overdose death is defined as having an underlying cause of death within the following range of ICD-10 codes: X40-X44, X60-X64, X85, Y10-Y14. Note that an opioid-involved death may also be counted as a cocaine-involved death if both drugs were listed on the death certificate as contributory causes. The seven non-exclusive categories of drug overdose deaths are defined as having a contributory cause of death: All opioid-involved deaths, Prescription opioids, Synthetic opioids, Heroin, Cocaine, Benzodiazepines, and Psychostimulants with abuse potential (includes methamphetamine).
Operating Budget Revenue Data

The county’s estimated revenue sources for the current budget, including property tax levy, intergovernmental revenue, charges for services and other sources. Ramsey County uses a two-year (biennial) operating budget. An operating budget is created for the first year of the budget cycle and is monitored to continually improve the county’s financial management and strategic planning efforts. Additional resolutions and amendments may increase or decrease certain funding sources, so a supplemental budget for the second year is submitted to the Ramsey County Board of Commissioners for approval. You can view the county’s financial reports and additional resources at ramseycounty.us/budget.
Open Data Tag and Data Domain Library Data

This table represents the tags and Data Domains used in the Ramsey County Open Data site. If new tags are needed, they can be added, but all publishers should check with this list and use existing tags, rather than creating their own versions. For instance, if "Voter" is an existing tag, do not create your own "Voters" tag. Maintaining a consistent tag inventory will simplify the user experience when searching for items on this site.
Missing Heirs

This dataset contains information on unclaimed assets left to named individuals. Per MN Statute 524.3-914 , "If any asset of the estate has not been distributed because the person entitled thereto cannot be found or refuses to accept the same, or for any other good and sufficient reason the same has not been paid over, the court may direct the personal representative to deposit the same with the county treasurer, taking duplicate receipts therefor, one of which the personal representative shall file with the county auditor and the other in the court. If the money on hand exceeds the sum of $5,000, the court may direct the county treasurer to invest the funds, and the county treasurer shall collect the interest on these investments as it becomes due, and the money so collected or deposited shall be credited to the county revenue fund. Upon petition to the court within 21 years after such deposit, and upon notice to the county attorney and county treasurer, the court may direct the county auditor to issue to the person entitled thereto the county auditor's warrant for the amount of the money so on deposit including the interest collected. No interest shall be allowed or paid thereon, except as herein provided, and if not claimed within such time no recovery thereof shall be had. The county treasurer, with the approval of the court, may make necessary sales, exchanges, substitutions, and transfers of investments and may present the same for redemption and invest the proceeds."
Met Council - Metropolitan WWTP Data

The "Met Council - Metropolitan WWTP Data" dataset provides weekly measurements of virus copies per liter at metropolitan wastewater treatment plants (WWTP). This data is essential for monitoring and analyzing trends in viral load within the wastewater system, offering insights into public health and environmental factors. Researchers, public health officials, and environmental analysts can leverage this dataset for various analytical purposes. N1 copies/liter refers to copies of the nucleocapsid protein found on the surface of the SARS CoV 2 virus, which show up in wastewater. The Mean Weighted Average Data comes to the University of Minnesota for analysis on various schedules from the 38 wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in Minnesota. Data analysts calculate averages across dates, going back exactly 5 sample dates, which is generally about 2.5 weeks. The 3 most recent sample dates are the most heavily weighted.
Juvenile Detention Center Admissions (2005-2024)

This dataset outlines the juvenile detention center admissions. The Ramsey County Juvenile Detention Center (JDC) is a 44-bed facility that provides secure detention for youth. The JDC provides a safe, secure, and structured setting for males and females aged 10 through 17 who are charged with committing offenses, are arrested on warrants, or are in violation of their probation for a previous offense.
Infectious Disease Summary Data

Annual summary of mandatory reportable infectious diseases provided by the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH). The dataset includes counts of reportable infectious diseases confirmed for residents of the designated geographic area (e.g. Ramsey County, Minnesota, or Metro Region). The Metro Region includes the following counties: Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott and Washington Data notes: 1. Beginning in 2010, typhoid fever cases are included in the Salmonellosis category 2. Human Ehrlichiosis E. muris-like was renamed to E. muriseauclairensis in 2018. Reports prior to 2018 use E. muris-like 3. Due to staff being redeployed to the COVID response, no vectorborne disease data is available and only some zoonotic disease data is available for 2020. This includes: Anaplasmosis-Ehrlichiosis, undetermined, Babesiosis, Chikungunya, Dengue, Human Anaplasmosis, Human Ehrlichiosis (2 species), Jamestown Canyon, La Crosse, Lyme Disease, Malaria, Novel Influenza A, Powassan, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Toxoplasmosis, West Nile Virus, Zika Virus 4. Hospitalized influenza cases reported by flu season. For example, 2017 count is from the 2016-17 flu season.
Denial Rate for Home Purchase Loans

The Home Mortgage Disclosure Act requires most financial institutions to maintain, report and publicly disclose loan-level information about mortgages including actions taken on home purchase loan applications, and this data is published by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Actions include when the loan application was originated (approved), approved but not accepted, denied, withdrawn, or closed for incompleteness; and when the preapproval was denied or approved but not accepted. Loans purchased by another financial institution were removed from the dataset since that is not an application outcome. Data on race and/or ethnicity was not available for 20% of the remaining dataset. This indicator shows the denial rate of home purchase loan applications by race and ethnicity in Ramsey County in 2023.
COVID Hotels and Respite Homeless Shelters and General County Populations Demographics

Compares demographic characteristics of COVID respite and hotel shelters operating March 2020 to June 2022 with all single adults in shelters and total homeless population from the point-in-time count on 1/23/2020 and total county population from the US Census American Community Survey for 2018. Multiracial American Indians are counted in "American Indian" for the respite and hotel shelters and singles shelters whereas all multiracial persons in other data sets are counted in the category "Multiracial".
COVID-19 Variant Prevalence in Waste Water

SARS-CoV-2 prevalence in wastewater influent is determined from multiple samples of wastewater each day. Units are in millions of copies of N1 and N2 genes, per person in the sewage treatment area, per day. Viral load data are from Metropolitan Council and the University of Minnesota Genomics Center. Variant presence and frequency are inferred from the N501Y mutation (Alpha, Beta and Gamma); the L452R mutation (Delta); and the K417N mutation (Omicron). K417N mutations present before November 18, 2020 are assumed to be Beta variants, and are marked as Other in the variant column.
COVID-19 Prevalence in Waste Water

SARS-CoV-2 prevalence in wastewater influent is determined from multiple samples of wastewater each day. Units are in millions of copies of N1 and N2 genes, per person in the sewage treatment area, per day. Viral load data are from Metropolitan Council and the University of Minnesota Genomics Center. Variant presence and frequency are inferred from the N501Y mutation (Alpha, Beta and Gamma); the L452R mutation (Delta); and the K417N mutation (Omicron). K417N mutations present before November 18, 2020 are assumed to be Beta variants, and are marked as Other in the variant column.
COVID-19 Nursing Home Data

The Nursing Home COVID-19 Public File includes data reported by nursing homes to the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Long Term Care Facility (LTCF) COVID-19 Module: Surveillance Reporting Pathways and COVID-19 Vaccinations. On September 15, 2023, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) updated its recommendation regarding what is required for individuals to be up to date with their COVID-19 vaccine. The COVID-19 vaccination rates now reflect the new definition of up to date. Initial findings should be interpreted with caution while providers are learning how to report COVID-19 vaccination status based on the new up to date definition. The data may initially show that few long-term care residents and staff have up to date vaccination status; these percentages will increase over time as residents and staff receive the updated COVID-19 vaccine.
County Health Rankings - Community Indicators Low Birth Weight & Preventable Hospital Stays

Low Birth Weight: A child born weighing less than 5 pounds 8 ounces is considered to have a low birthweight by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Children born below that threshold are at elevated risk for adverse health conditions and infant mortality. This indicator is the percentage rate of births with low birth weight out of all births, disaggregated by race and ethnicity. Preventable Hospital Stays: This indicator reports the rate of preventable hospital stays, defined as the number of discharges for ambulatory-care sensitive conditions per 100,000 Medicare enrollees. Data is from the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (CHR&R), a program of the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
Comprehensive Beach Water Quality Data

Ramsey County regularly tests beaches for water quality during beach season, from June through August each year. Ramsey County uses the state E. coli water quality standard to identify water bodies that may be contaminated with fecal waste. Higher levels of E. coli in the water may or may not be accompanied by higher levels and an increased risk of harmful bacteria; varying survival rates of bacteria make is impossible to definitively state when these harmful bacteria are present. Two samples are taken from each Ramsey County beach weekly to test E. coli levels.
Community Indicators 2020 [Archived]

Indicators are selected to set the long-term direction for the county’s strategic planning and budget. Measures are chosen based on the quality of the data source, the measure’s comparability with the seven-county metro region and the availability of trend data. No single indicator can capture all progress toward a goal, but together these measures provide metrics on the overall health of our community in the areas of well-being, prosperity, opportunity and accountability. The indicators selected are organized by their relevance to Ramsey County's goals to further operationalize these commitments.