WATCH FY2017: Wake County, NC Fiscal Year 2017 Budget and Expenditure Data

Fiscal year 2017 budget information for Wake County, North Carolina. The data is used in the WATCH (Wake Accountability Tax Check) application to review tax dollar spending and fiscal responsibility. It is provided by Wake County and was last updated on March 22, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze county government expenditure patterns based on budget and actual expense data.
• Review vendor transactions and procurement details based on the description of vendor data.
• Compare budgeted amounts to actual spending for fiscal oversight based on the comparison feature mentioned.
• Map geospatial budget allocations based on the availability of geospatial file formats.

Strengths

• Data is provided under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Available in multiple formats including CSV, XLS, and geospatial formats (GEOJSON, GPKG).
• Last updated on March 22, 2026, suggesting potential maintenance.

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.

Provenance

Source

Wake County

Collection Method

Likely extracted from official county budget and financial systems.

Time Range

Fiscal Year 2017

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-22 02:55:17.855926; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Wake County, North Carolina, USA