Municipal Financial Health via Uniform Assessment in Nova Scotia

Uniform Assessment is a measure of a municipality's own-source revenue base, representing the value of taxable property assessment plus capitalized payments in lieu of taxes. The dataset is provided by the Government of Nova Scotia and was last updated on March 18, 2026. It is available in multiple formats including CSV, XML, and RDF under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Use Cases

• Assess municipal financial health based on the uniform assessment revenue metric.
• Compare own-source revenue bases across different municipalities.
• Model the impact of property assessment values on local government budgets.

Strengths

• Data is provided by a provincial government authority (Government of Nova Scotia).
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats (CSV, XML, RDF).
• Last update timestamp is precisely recorded (2026-03-18 15:00:48.941383).

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Government of Nova Scotia

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 15:00:48.941383; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Nova Scotia, Canada