The State

High school coach salaries

Database of high school coaching salaries in public school districts of South Carolina.

Midlands property transfers

Searchable database of property transfers in Richland, Lexington and Kershaw counties.

Richland Co. crime

Searchable database of summary crime data from the Richland County Sheriff's Department.

SC real-time wildfire updates

Map and data on wildfires across South Carolina. Outdoor-burning guide.

Latinos in the US

Pew Research data on Latino population distribution and changes in the US

SC railroad crossings

Listings of SC railroad crossings by county and current signal projects.

Midlands gas prices

Explore real-time maps and lists of area gas prices, fuel tips, trends and more.

South Carolina Salaries

See the salaries of employees for the State of South Carolina who make at least $50,000 a year.

Midlands Salaries

See the salaries of local government and school employees who make more than $50,000 a year.

Highway fatalities

Fatalities by S.C. county by year, 2008-2011

Collisions data

Explore interstate collisions data for interstates 20, 26 and 77 in the Midlands.

Restaurant Inspections

How do your local eateries stack up when it comes to health inspections? Click here to find out!

SC agency spending

From the SC Transparency website, links to monthly charge card expenses.

Influence Explorer

Find campaigin contributions by politician, industry or organization.

Columbia Municipal Court docket

Columbia Municipal Court's jury trial docket

Columbia and USC crime

Crime maps from the Columbia Police Department.

Richland County crime

Daily crime report from the Richland County Sheriff's Department (pdf).

Town of Lexington crime

Track crime as reported by the Town of Lexington Police Department.

West Columbia crime

Track crime as reported by West Columbia Police Dept.

Pesticides for bed bugs

EPA database of pesticides effective on bed bugs. Also: Bed bug tips

Midlands stream data

View live USGS charts on area streamflow data.

Census Data

Census data at the national, state and local levels for population and apportionment changes and other basic facts. +Data visualization gallery

S.C.'s War Dead

Information about soldiers with an association to South Carolina who have died in Iraq or Afghanistan.

countyhealthrankings.org

Assessing health of county populations nationwide based on a variety of factors. Link goes to SC page.

Data.gov: Federal data clearinghouse

Growing portal to machine-readable data sets generated by the executive branch of the federal government.

Dept. of Justice statistics

Find statistics maintained by the US Dept. of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Fatal wreck clusters in SC

Track locations where fatal wrecks occur most often in South Carolina and other locations.

SC hotel prices

Check hotel prices across South Carolina at a glance.

Federal stimulus spending

Watch how federal money allocated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is spent.

State spending

Monthly and yearly summaries of agency spending, plus other resources. Managed by the S.C. Comptroller General's office.

Hospital acquired infections

Federally required reporting by S.C. DHEC on rates of infections acquired by patients in hospitals

Education Lottery distributions

County-by-county appropriations of S.C. Education Lottery proceeds since January 2002 (from educationlottery.com).

Compare nursing homes

Medicare's tool to compare nursing homes in your area.

Track sex offenders

Richland County and other sheriff's agencies offer "OffenderWatch", an online tool to check the status and location of registered sex offenders