Witenai

A machine-readable enumeration of every US governmental entity, from the federal branches down to special districts, with the offices inside them.

DatasetPythonOpen data

93,590governments

15,886positions

Data source

US Gov Manual · Census · Federal Register

Witenai answers a question no single source does: what governmental entities exist in the United States, all of them, in one buildable dataset. Two cross-referenced layers, the governments themselves and the elected and appointed positions inside them, regenerate from primary sources with every row traceable to where it came from.

Highlights

▹93,590 governments: federal, state, tribal, territorial, and local
▹15,886 offices and roles in a separate cross-referenced layer
▹Built from the US Government Manual, Census of Governments, Federal Register, USAspending, and Wikidata
▹Documents its own limits: the ~500,000-office long tail of local positions is the mapped next phase

Built with

PythonCSV pipelinesPrimary-source ETL

Source in a private repo