Data & methodology

Source data updates daily.

Everything on this site comes from one public dataset — here is exactly what it is, what it means, and where it is imperfect.

The source

The data is a public-domain rental housing inventory published by a major US city under the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL) — free to use for any purpose, including commercial, with no attribution required.

Licensing and attribution

Listing data on this site is published under the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL): it is public domain and may be used for any purpose, commercial or otherwise, with no attribution required. Map imagery is © OpenStreetMap contributors, used under the Open Database License (ODbL), which requires this attribution. All other site content — design, text, and analysis — is © 2026 Awestruck Innovations LLC.

What it actually measures

This is a rent census, not a listings feed. It records the rent currently paid by the occupant of each unit — not what a landlord is asking for a vacancy, and not what the unit would fetch today. A unit shown here is not necessarily available to rent.

Known limitations (read before quoting a number)

• Rents are banded. The City publishes rent in $250 bands ("$2,751–$3,000"). We show the midpoint, so any single price is approximate to within ~$125.
• ~13% of records are skipped, deliberately: units with no reported rent (owner-occupied, or "$0"), non-residential units, and records that cannot be parsed. The reasons and counts are reported on every data refresh.
• Addresses are block-level ("300 Block of Valencia St"), not exact street numbers — the City anonymizes them for privacy. The City's point coordinates are also block-level approximations, so map pins mark the block, not an individual unit.
• "5+ units" is a size proxy. The source has no "professionally managed" flag, so we label buildings of five or more units. It is a size label, not a claim about management.
• Low prices usually mean rent control. A $300 apartment is almost always a long-tenured, rent-controlled unit, not a bargain. Use the in-app market-rate floor to filter them out.

Location and maps

Addresses and map positions are block-level approximations ("300 Block of Valencia St"), not exact locations — the publishing agency anonymizes them for privacy. Listing cards show a static map preview of the block; opening a listing shows an interactive map of the same area.

Update cadence

The City updates the inventory daily. Our copy refreshes automatically every hour on the hour (UTC), plus immediately at startup when the database is empty.