This data set tracks the number of established businesses, non-profits, and startups that the City of Austin Economic Development and Small and Minority Business Resources departments supported each year. The data set lists the programs each business was served through, the race or ethnicity of the CEO or Executive supported, and zipcode, if available. This data can be used to distinguish areas of Austin and around the globe that have received small business services as well as the racial makeup of the executives of these established businesses, non-profits, and startups.

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This is a listing of the currently certified small business enterprises registered with the City of Austin.

The dataset exists to observe the entrepreneurial activity of Austin over a long time period. The data comes from the U.S. Census County Business Pattern table and is capturing data at the Travis County level. It contains the cumulative count of firms by employee size and count of firms by employee size by industry. This data can be used to see changes of employer growth by industry; to project where workforce growth could be occurring; or to simply see how many small businesses there are in Austin. View more details and insights related to this data set on the story page: data.austintexas.gov/stories/s/ndb5-si22

The Economic Development Department routinely surveys clients who participate in programs or services within a fiscal year to see the impact of the services provided. To read more about the Economic Development Department and other important measures, visit the 2022 Annual Economic Development Department Report. https://data.austintexas.gov/stories/s/2022-Economic-Development-Annual-Report

The data set may include active and inactive credit access businesses.

This dataset contains all current and active business licenses issued by the Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection. This dataset contains a large number of records /rows of data and may not be viewed in full in Microsoft Excel. Therefore, when downloading the file, select CSV from the Export menu. Open the file in an ASCII text editor, such as Notepad or Wordpad, to view and search.

Data fields requiring description are detailed below.

APPLICATION TYPE: 'ISSUE' is the record associated with the initial license application. 'RENEW' is a subsequent renewal record. All renewal records are created with a term start date and term expiration date. 'C_LOC' is a change of location record. It means the business moved. 'C_CAPA' is a change of capacity record. Only a few license types my file this type of application. 'C_EXPA' only applies to businesses that have liquor licenses. It means the business location expanded.

LICENSE STATUS: 'AAI' means the license was issued.

Business license owners may be accessed at: http://data.cityofchicago.org/Community-Economic-Development/Business-Owners/ezma-pppn To identify the owner of a business, you will need the account number or legal name.

Data Owner: Business Affairs and Consumer Protection

Time Period: Current

Frequency: Data is updated daily

This dataset contains all current and active business licenses issued by the Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection. This dataset contains a large number of records /rows of data and may not be viewed in full in Microsoft Excel. Therefore, when downloading the file, select CSV from the Export menu. Open the file in an ASCII text editor, such as Notepad or Wordpad, to view and search.

Data fields requiring description are detailed below.

APPLICATION TYPE: 'ISSUE' is the record associated with the initial license application. 'RENEW' is a subsequent renewal record. All renewal records are created with a term start date and term expiration date. 'C_LOC' is a change of location record. It means the business moved. 'C_CAPA' is a change of capacity record. Only a few license types my file this type of application. 'C_EXPA' only applies to businesses that have liquor licenses. It means the business location expanded.

LICENSE STATUS: 'AAI' means the license was issued.

Business license owners may be accessed at: http://data.cityofchicago.org/Community-Economic-Development/Business-Owners/ezma-pppn To identify the owner of a business, you will need the account number or legal name.

Data Owner: Business Affairs and Consumer Protection

Time Period: Current

Frequency: Data is updated daily

The Austin Energy Regional Science Festival is one of the largest regional science festivals held in Texas and the nation. Middle and high school students who win at their respective schools compete at the regional festival to advance to the state science fair competition. Five senior level projects receive Best of Fair awards and the winners of those projects have the option to advance directly to the international competition. Central Texas middle and high school students have performed very well at past state and international competitions. Between 2004 and 2016, 100 students representing 71 projects advanced to the international level. Of those, 44 students representing 29 projects won 73 category and special awards. Since 2004, more than 1,225 students have advanced to the state level, where about 20% have won awards. In 2016, the Austin Energy Regional Science Festival showcased 755 middle and high school projects. Unlike most regional events, Austin Energy also hosts elementary school students. Nearly 4,000 students and their families turn out for the event which includes a public viewing of the science projects as well as educational booths and scientific demonstrations. Over 550 judges and 180 volunteers from the City of Austin, local businesses, colleges, and elementary/middle/high schools contribute annually to the event’s success. Revenues to fund the event come from fees paid by participating schools and companies that provide sponsorships.

Appointments are formal designations to represent regulated insurance companies. This data set includes a row for each active appointment between an agent or adjuster and an insurance company. To view a list of appointments for agencies and businesses, go to the Active insurance company appointments for agencies and businesses data set. To view a list of non-appointment relationships between agents, agencies, adjusters, and insurance companies, go to the Business relationships between agents, agencies, adjusters, and insurance companies data set.

The dataset supports measure S.D.4.a of SD23. The Austin Municipal Court offers services via in person, phone, mail, email, online, in the community, in multiple locations, and during non-traditional hours to make it easier and more convenient for individuals to handle court business. This measure tracks the percentage of customers that utilize court services outside of normal business hours, defined as 8am-5pm Monday-Friday, and how many payments were made by methods other than in person. This measure helps determine how Court services are being used and enables the Court to allocate its resources to best meet the needs of the public. Historically, almost 30% of the operational hours are outside of traditional hours and the average percentage of payments made by mail and online has been over 59%. View more details and insights related to this measure on the story page: https://data.austintexas.gov/stories/s/c7z3-geii Data source: electronic case management system and manual tracking of payments received via mail. Calculation: Business hours are manually calculated annually. - A query is run from the court’s case management system to calculate how many monetary transactions were posted. S.D.4.a: Numerator: Number of payments received by mail is entered manually by the Customer Service unit that processes all incoming mail. S.D.4.a Denominator: Total number of web payments is calculated using a query to calculate a total number of payments with a payment type ‘web’ in the case management system. Measure time period: Annual (Fiscal Year) Automated: No Date of last description update: 4/10/2020

This directory was compiled through a 2016 community mapping process as part of The City of Austin Cultural Arts Division's Cultural Asset Mapping Project (CAMP) and updated through Cultural Arts Division staff research in 2018. The directory is a comprehensive list of arts and cultural facilities, creative businesses and organizations, public art, and any other cultural or creative resources submitted by CAMP participants as cultural assets. For more information on CAMP and how you can use this directory, visit www.austintexas.gov/culturemapping. This dataset was created by the City of Austin Economic Development Department for the sole purpose of informational reference and does not reflect an on the ground survey. No warranty is made by the City of Austin regarding specific accuracy of completeness.

This dataset supports measure S.D.4.b, S.D.6 of SD23. The Downtown Austin Community Court (DACC) was established to address quality of life and public order offenses occurring in the downtown Austin area utilizing a restorative justice court model. DACC offers alternatives to fines and fees for defendants to handle their cases such as community service restitution and participation in rehabilitation services. Defendants who reside outside of a 40-mile radius from DACC are offered an opportunity to handle their case through correspondence action, meaning the entire judicial process can be handled through email or postal mail. Correspondence action eliminates an undue burden requiring a defendant to travel back to Austin to appear for their case and it allows for quicker access to court services of Austin residents by reducing the number of individuals required to appear for their case. This measure tracks how many cases involving non-homeless individuals have been handled through correspondence action recorded in the court's case management system. The data source for number and percentage of instances where people access court services other than in person for DACC has a annual range based on fiscal year 2015- first quarter fiscal year 2020. View more details and insights related to this measure on the story page: https://data.austintexas.gov/stories/s/vxci-zmm3

Data source: Data for this measure is collected by DACC staff inputting information from citations issued in DACC’s jurisdiction and from court processes. All data is entered in DACC’s electronic court case management platform.

Calculation S.D.4.b Numerator= number of cases with the correspondence action/Denominator= total number of cases involving non-homeless individuals.

Measure Time Period: Annually (Fiscal Year)

Automated: no

Date of last description update: 4/1/2020

This dataset is comprised of arts organizations and businesses’ responses to the 2017 Creative Space Survey. This survey, conducted annually, provides a platform for Austin creatives to keep the City up-to-date on current space needs provides data to inform the Economic Development Department’s creative space development efforts and includes data on current costs, sizes, and ideal specifications for creative workspaces. The results captured here were collected over the course of 2018. The Creative Space Survey is comprised of two surveys- one for individual artists and one for arts organizations and businesses. For more information or to view the other survey results, visit www.austintexas.gov/creativespacesurvey. This survey is also used to capture Strategic Direction Metric CLL.B.6: Number and percentage of creatives who report having access to affordable creative space. This product has been produced by the Economic development Department of the City of Austin for the sole purpose of informational reference. No warranty is made by the City of Austin regarding specific accuracy or completeness.

The Austin Energy Regional Science Festival is one of the largest regional science festivals held in Texas and the nation. Middle and high school students who win at their respective schools compete at the regional festival to advance to the state science fair competition. Five senior level projects receive Best of Fair awards and the winners of those projects have the option to advance directly to the international competition.

Central Texas middle and high school students have performed very well at past state and international competitions. Between 2004 and 2016, 100 students representing 71 projects advanced to the international level. Of those, 44 students representing 29 projects won 73 category and special awards. Since 2004, more than 1,225 students have advanced to the state level, where about 20% have won awards.

In 2016, the Austin Energy Regional Science Festival showcased 755 middle and high school projects. Unlike most regional events, Austin Energy also hosts elementary school students. Nearly 4,000 students and their families turn out for the event which includes a public viewing of the science projects as well as educational booths and scientific demonstrations.

Over 550 judges and 180 volunteers from the City of Austin, local businesses, colleges, and elementary/middle/high schools contribute annually to the event’s success. Revenues to fund the event come from fees paid by participating schools and companies that provide sponsorships.

The Residential Water Meter Inspections/Installs Listing: Check on the status of your residential water meter inspections and installations. The list below shows which service requests have been assigned to a Meter Services Inspector. Meter inspections are generally completed within ten business days of the initiation of the Service Request. An address with an “Assigned” service request may have an inspection completed within three business days, barring unforeseen circumstances. Please make sure the meter box is clean, the wooden dowel spacer is sized properly and marked with the service address, and the angle stop and ball valves are in alignment for a successful meter installation.