Austin puts its dashboards, maps and datasets in one place with a new Data and Insights Hub
The city manager promised a single data hub after the 2025 tax election. Here is what it has, what it does not change, and where else to look.
Austin has launched a single website that gathers the city's public dashboards, datasets, maps and reports. For residents, it is meant to answer a common complaint: city data exists, but it is scattered across dozens of department pages.
KXAN reported the launch Oct. 26, citing an Oct. 23 memo to the council from Kerri Lang, director of Austin Budget and Organizational Excellence.
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What the hub is
According to Lang's memo, the Data and Insights Hub sits on Performance ATX, the city's existing site for tracking its strategic plan, the city manager's yearly goals and department measures. The hub:
- organizes data products under the city's six strategic priorities, each with its own tab;
- gives each priority a description, featured resources and a searchable list of every related data product;
- pulls from the city's Open Data Portal, the Austin GeoHub map site, and other department pages and outside sites found through a digital accessibility inventory.
The memo is clear about what does not change. Departments remain responsible for keeping their own data accurate, through the same open data liaisons and GIS staff as before. The hub collects links to existing products; it does not create new data or add a new accuracy check.
The city's Data and Insights page also lists related tools: a community survey dashboard, a capital projects explorer, a searchable database of council budget questions, a staff vacancy dashboard and quarterly financial reports.
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What our records add
Where the idea came from. The hub was a goal the city manager set for himself in public. At a Nov. 19, 2025 budget meeting, Council Member Ryan Alter asked for a dashboard tracking city efficiency studies. Mayor Kirk Watson then said one lesson of Proposition Q, the tax rate increase voters rejected that month, was that the public wants more information. City Manager T.C. Broadnax answered that one of his goals for the next year was a city data hub that would put many dashboards in one searchable place, rather than 25 separate ones that people cannot find. Lang's memo ties the launch to that goal.
More dashboards this month. The hub arrives alongside other new reporting tools. On Oct. 20, Capital Delivery Services staff told the council they had launched an Austin bond dashboard and a new quarterly bond report, and were planning a broader capital projects dashboard. Our story on the first quarterly bond report looks at what it shows.
Our own records. Austin Politics publishes the council's votes, sponsors and meeting transcripts in its own form. Each council member's page lists their votes, and every meeting we cover has a searchable transcript, such as the Oct. 22 council meeting. These are separate from the city's hub.
What's next
Questions about the hub go to Megan Bell, chief administrative officer of Austin Budget and Organizational Excellence, according to the memo. The city's Performance ATX site hosts it.