Downtown Austin Community Court FY 2024 Caseload

Downtown Austin Community Court provides data on violations charged throughout the City of Austin for Fiscal Year 2024. The dataset includes case status and detailed race categorization fields. It is maintained by the City of Austin and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze case closure rates by comparing Case Status (Y/N) across different Race categories.
• Investigate demographic patterns in violations by segmenting data using the detailed Race field (e.g., B, L, W, MR).
• Track case lifecycle by filtering on Case Status values like ACTIVE (ACT), INACTIVE (IN), TERMINATED (TERM), and TERMINATED ADMINISTRATIVELY (TERMA).

Strengths

• Data is provided directly by the authoritative City of Austin organization.
• Includes a detailed, standardized Race field with 14 distinct categories including specific codes for client refusal (CR) and multiple races (MR).
• Clear documentation for Case Status abbreviations (Y for closed, N for not closed) and specific termination statuses.

Limitations

• Core structural metadata like row count, column count, and sample data are unavailable, limiting initial assessment.
• Data may be limited to a single fiscal year (FY 2024), restricting longitudinal analysis.
• The 'notspecified' license status creates ambiguity for commercial or redistribution use cases.

Provenance

Source

City of Austin

Collection Method

Provided by the Downtown Austin Community Court (DACC).

Time Range

Fiscal Year 2024.

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

City of Austin, Texas, specifically the Downtown Community Court jurisdiction.