cori.data
CORI's rural data ecosystem — a family of R packages providing unified access to employment, population, business, housing, and broadband data across rural America
R Packages
Open-source R packages for accessing rural data
cori.data.bds
Access and analyze Census Bureau Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) data covering establishment and job dynamics from 1978 to present. Provides tidy access to business dynamics — entries, exits, job creation, job destruction — by geography, industry, establishment age, and firm size.
cori.data.bfs
Access and analyze U.S. Census Bureau Business Formation Statistics (BFS) at the county, state, and national level from 2005 to present. Measures business applications — EIN filings — as a leading indicator of entrepreneurial activity in rural and nonrural communities.
cori.data.bps
Access and analyze U.S. Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) data covering new residential units authorized from 2000 to present. Tracks housing supply growth at the county, state, and national level as an indicator of local market conditions and development capacity.
cori.data.fcc
Access FCC National Broadband Map (NBM) and Form 477 data at the county and census block level. Includes CORI-processed S3-backed datasets and tools for analyzing broadband infrastructure availability across rural and nonrural geographies.
cori.data.hu
Access and analyze U.S. Census Bureau Housing Unit Estimates at the national, state, and county level from 2000 to present. Measures total housing stock — occupied and vacant — as part of CORI's housing supply data ecosystem.
cori.data.pep
Access and analyze U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) data at the county level from 2000 to present, including population totals and components of change (births, deaths, domestic and international migration).
cori.data.qcew
Access and analyze Bureau of Labor Statistics Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) data at the county, state, and national level from 1990 to present. Covers total employment, average annual pay, sector composition, and employment concentration using CORI's tradable goods / tradable services / local services classification.
cori.data.s3
CORI functions used by cori.data.* packages to connect to S3
ruraldefinitions
R package aggregating federal rural definitions and making them accessible to R programmers. County-level definitions are bundled as package data; tract-level definitions are loaded from S3 via get_definition(). Supports CBSA, RUCC, NCHS, UIC, RUCA, and CORI rural classifications across multiple vintages.