City of Baton Rouge provides the City-Parish Expense Budget through its Open Budget BR platform. The dataset allows users to drill down into departmental and service-specific spending categories, comparing budgeted versus actual expenses incurred throughout the fiscal year. The data can be viewed in greater detail at checkbook.brla.gov.
Use Cases
- Analyze departmental spending patterns based on department-level budget categories.
- Compare budgeted versus actual expenses for municipal services based on the budget vs. actual data mentioned.
- Track revenue sources and expenditures across different government funds based on the fund-level browsing capability.
Strengths
- Data is provided in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, RDF, and XML.
- Platform metadata indicates a recent update timestamp of 2026-03-22.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and total dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- City of Baton Rouge
- Collection Method
- Likely extracted from official municipal budgeting systems.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-22 03:06:14.904688; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Baton Rouge City-Parish, Louisiana, USA