Santa Clara County Medical Examiner Records from 2018 to Present

Santa Clara County's Medical Examiner-Coroner records from January 1, 2018 onward, covering deaths under its jurisdiction and reportable non-jurisdictional cases. The dataset includes columns for cause and manner of death, demographics, and incident location. It is updated nightly and hosted by data.sccgov.org.

Use Cases

• Analyzing demographic disparities in mortality using Age, Gender, and Race columns.
• Mapping incident locations for spatial analysis of deaths using Latitude, Longitude, and Incident Location.
• Classifying causes and manners of death using Cause of Death and Manner of Death columns.
• Tracking case status and temporal trends using Case Status and Death Date columns.

Strengths

• Contains records from January 1, 2018 to the present, providing multi-year coverage.
• Includes 18 columns per record, such as demographic, geographic, and cause-of-death variables.
• Updated nightly, suggesting regular data refreshes.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The data provider states it will not be responsible for verification or interpretation after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner's Office via data.sccgov.org.

Collection Method

Likely contains official case records compiled by the Medical Examiner-Coroner's Office.

Time Range

January 1, 2018 to present.

Freshness

Updated nightly; last recorded update was 2026-04-03 13:19:02.

Geography

Deaths occurring in Santa Clara County, California, USA.