Live-verified open-data directory of 109,400 veteran resources across all 50 US states + territories. VA hospitals, clinics, vet centers, benefits offices, mental health, housing, employment, and VSO posts. Every record FIPS-tract geocoded, URL-health-monitored, and (for 501(c)(3) rows) ProPublica Form 990 cross-referenced. Default search returns veteran-focused only; include_general=1 for full corpus.
Distribution: 6 format(s) — JSON API, CSV, HSDS 3.0 · Keywords: veterans, VA hospitals, CVSO, mental health, 988
US Census Bureau ACS 5-year (2022) tract-level demographics for 84,365 tracts joined with our resource directory. Veteran count, veteran percentage, poverty count + percentage, unemployment, median household income — all keyed on FIPS state/county/tract. Used to identify "service deserts" — high-veteran-density tracts with no nearby resources.
Distribution: 3 format(s) — JSON API, CSV, HSDS 3.0 · Keywords: veterans, ACS, American Community Survey, Census Bureau, demographics
CDC PLACES 2023 BRFSS-modeled tract-level health prevalence estimates for 78,815 tracts. Eight measures relevant to veteran services: depression, poor mental health, no health insurance, any disability, current smoking, binge drinking, obesity, diabetes. Joined with veteran density and resource counts to surface tracts where vets face crisis-level health risk AND resource gaps simultaneously.
Distribution: 2 format(s) — JSON API, CSV, HSDS 3.0 · Keywords: CDC, PLACES, BRFSS, depression, veteran mental health
ACS 2022 housing cost data for 80,147 tracts: median gross rent, median home value, renter household count, share paying 30%+ of income on rent (HUD rent-burdened) and 50%+ (severely rent-burdened). Joined with veteran density to identify tracts where vets are most crushed by housing costs and most under-served by HUD-VASH/SSVF.
Distribution: 2 format(s) — JSON API, CSV, HSDS 3.0 · Keywords: veterans, housing, rent burden, HUD-VASH, SSVF
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Wounded Warriors (EIN 86-1336741, Texas 501(c)(3), d/b/a Warriors Fund). [Dataset Name]. Retrieved from https://warriorsfund.org/datasets/[slug] on [Access Date].