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6	Question	Requested By	Category	Last researched	Status	Researcher	Data investigation

7	How do we get an up-to-date estimate for how many families in Travis County are seeking childcare for their young children? Looking for methodology advice, not actually getting the data.	Child Care Quality Initiatives @ Workforce Solutions	General		in-progress	Megha Panth; Alex Burnet-Hayes	In-progress
8	Can we use data to provide insight on how population density and fire department resources interplay with each other? Context: There have been conversations about the Fire Department’s need to add more aerial trucks to respond to Austin’s growing population, plus the needs of the Fire Department in general. Context: This question stems from conversations during City Counsel meetings and amongst City gov staff around single stair building reform, fire department staffing models, fire response times, and street design.	City of Austin	Housing		in-progress	Eric Kylberg; Chase Easterling	In-progress
9	I want to understand how structural inequities impact belonging across austin. I'm seeking data on: poverty, income inequality, and demographic change, housing instability, COVID-19, Health disparities, and Education access and engagement indicators.	Equity Ignite	General	2026-06-28	in-progress	Umberto Fasci	In-progress
13	Who owns the properties in Austin? How many of those owners are corporations, individuals, etc?	Greater Austin Tenant Organizing (GATO)	Housing		in-progress	Kevin Ouyang, Tingting Lin, Salih Horozovic, Aslan French	(in-progress) Handled by our Landlord Mapper product team
14	How many professional Musicians live in Austin? The last data we have estimates it at 6000 in 2016. We would love some more current data.	Healthcare for Austin Musicians	Health		needs data researcher	Searching for data researcher.	Searching for data researcher.
15	Where is the most trash generated, and what are its sources? Context: Keep Austin Beautiful is working at the "end of the supply chain" so to speak (because we organize trash pickups) but can we do anything to prevent trash from being generated upstream? I know the City is doing an art project by beautifying trash cans downtown; maybe we can plug in there?	Keep Austin Beautiful	General		needs data researcher	Searching for data researcher.	Searching for data researcher.
17	We'd like to have a dataset of "POIs" (points of interest) in Austin. For example, a POI could be a popular restaurant, a museum, a place of worship, etc. Each POI should have a name, a category ("restaurant", etc), and geographic coordinates (latitude/longitude). We would use this to power our OneBus application and display POIs near bus stops.	Open Austin OneBus product team	General		needs data researcher	Searching for data researcher.	Searching for data researcher.
18	What is the income level for any given neighborhood, and how does that correlate with the presence of our recruiting partners? Our vision at Shield Ranch is to connect people -- particularly BIPOC youth -- more deeply to the natural world and thus to themselves and to their community.	Shield Ranch	General		in-progress	Giovanni Govert	Searching for data researcher.
19	Across the board, we're seeing a decline in the number of foster care cases, yet simultaneously an increase in each case's severity. Can this be validated? We think this is related to the state of Texas moving to privatize foster care, but we aren't able to find a lot of public data, which means we can't effectively tell a story and advocate.	Texas CASA	General		on ice	Eric Kylberg	Searching for data researcher.
20	Identify jurisdictions (counties, school boards, cities, etcetera) across the state of Texas that would be likely to redistrict in the wake of the Supreme Court decision Louisiana v. Callais	Texas Civil Rights Project	Justice		needs data researcher	Searching for data researcher.	Searching for data researcher.
28	How have the demographics of Austin changed over time?	 resident	General		in-progress	Giovanni Govert	In-progress
29	Call volume and topics for 311	 resident	General		in-progress	Faraaz Ismail	In-progress
30	What/where are all the private and public schools in the Austin area? What are their enrollment numbers?	 resident	Education		in-progress	Nicola Rowe	In-progress
31	Are there more stray animals now than before?	 resident	General		needs data researcher	Searching for data researcher.	Searching for data researcher.
32	How many people are coming and going, moving in and out of Austin?	 resident	General		needs data researcher	Searching for data researcher.	Searching for data researcher.
33	Aggregate all city works projects onto a map	 resident	General		in-progress	Martin Liu	In-progress
34	Breakdown of professions and their rate of growth and decline	 resident	General		needs data researcher	Searching for data researcher.	Searching for data researcher.
35	What is the success rate of using an enhanced ID from the Austin Public Library at the approved locations? And also what training is provided to the people who are to accept it?	 resident	Justice		needs data researcher	Searching for data researcher.	Searching for data researcher.
44	Why are there so many types of bike Lanes? Protected, bollards, armadillos, etc. How many of each are there?	 resident	Transportation		in-progress	Martin Liu	https://austin.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=c7fecf32a2d946fabdf062285d58d40c
45	How many speed bumps are there in Austin, where are they, and are they effective? It seems like people can just drive around them if they Center the bump in their wheels	 resident	Transportation		needs data researcher	Searching for data researcher.	Searching for data researcher.
46	Map of ISPs in city of Austin	 resident	Digital equity		needs data researcher	Searching for data researcher.	Searching for data researcher.
47	What is the GDP of Austin?	 resident	General		needs data researcher	Searching for data researcher.	Searching for data researcher.
48	Where in Austin are residents experiencing the greatest barriers to meaningful digital participation, what populations are most affected, what are the primary barriers they experience, and where are existing services insufficient to meet those needs?	Austin Free-Net	Digital equity		needs data researcher	Searching for data researcher.	Searching for data researcher.
49	Hi — I’m Adam Werbach from Transparent City (transparent.city). We build public dashboards on top of city open data portals, and Austin is one of our live cities. This isn’t a one-off dataset request. We already pull from data.austintexas.gov, and we’d like to work with Open Austin / Data Austin on making our Austin dashboard better. We’re happy to share anything useful we’ve already made (queries, findings, tools) and to partner however helps your team. We’re big fans of your work and mostly want to be helpful. Open to whatever intake process you prefer.	Transparent City	General		needs data researcher	Searching for data researcher.	Searching for data researcher.
50	How can we create a data set that shows which bus stops have shade?	Bishop Zareh	General		in-progress	OA Data CoP	Martin Liu located the following map data: CapMetro Map Data. Assigning Yuxuan Liu to validate.
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