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Changelog
Download the county food-access extract cited on this page: plainfoodaccess-food-access.csv (USDA ERS Food Access Research Atlas + Census ACS · public domain sources).
A dated record of real changes to PlainFoodAccess: corrections, data refreshes, and features. See the editorial & corrections policy for how reports are verified. We never backfill or invent an entry; a gap between dates means nothing changed on our side.
- Feature
Added USDA ERS According-to ledes on all six guides, a personal county watchlist RSS feed at /tools/county-watchlist-feed.xml, and a Subscribe button on /saved for return visits.
- Feature
Wired Statistics and Research into primary navigation and county “Read with this county” discovery grids; surfaced the device-local saved-county list from the homepage.
- Correction
Bound national summary totals and SNAP retailer counts to a single database query so homepage and statistics figures cannot drift from the county corpus.
- Correction
Counties with ACS data but no 2019 Food Access Research Atlas row (chiefly Connecticut planning regions and two Alaska redraws) now show “not available” instead of false zero low-access percentages.
- Feature
Every data page now shows the dataset vintage (“reviewed” date) from the live ETL metadata instead of the page render time.
- Feature
Published a downloadable open CSV covering all counties and wired Dataset schema on methodology and trust pages.
- Data refresh
Rebuilt the county database from the USDA Food Access Research Atlas (2019) and Census ACS 2024 5-year extracts.
- Launch
PlainFoodAccess launched with county-level food access profiles from USDA and Census public data.
See the methodology for how the dataset is built, or contact us to report a figure that looks wrong.