Open data
South Carolina
- HSDS 3.3.1
- CC BY 4.0
- Updated October 10, 2026
About this data
County and city offices, food banks, free legal help, community action agencies, food pantries and meal sites, and the programs the state runs, in South Carolina. It uses the Human Services Data Specification (HSDS 3.3.1) from Open Referral, so 211s and referral tools can load it as it is.
- Services
- 1,560
- Organizations
- 1,386
- Places with an address
- 1,262
- In the free sample
- 156
What is in it
- State programs
- 30
- Local offices
- 1,351
- Nonprofits
- 19
- Food sites
- 0
Services by kind of help
- Education344
- Housing342
- Legal help175
- Work122
- Money122
- Food118
- Health104
- Care102
- Safety81
- Other50
How it is built and checked
- We read official pages and trusted lists: county and city websites, state agencies, Feeding America, the Legal Services Corporation and community action networks.
- A research file counts only when it passes the same checks it must pass to reach Front Door. A file with a problem waits until it is fixed.
- Every service and organization names the page it came from and the day we read it.
- We rebuild the files with every release of Front Door. The API reads only these files, never our live database.
Fields
Each HSDS table, how many rows it has, and the fields we fill in. The free sample has the same fields.
organizations1,386 rows, 154 in the sample
id, name, alternate_name, description, website
services1,560 rows, 156 in the sample
id, organization_id, name, alternate_name, description, url, status, application_process, eligibility_description, assured_date
locations1,262 rows, 136 in the sample
id, location_type, organization_id, name, description, latitude, longitude
service_at_locations1,423 rows, 138 in the sample
id, service_id, location_id
phones2,796 rows, 300 in the sample
id, number, extension, service_id, location_id, organization_id
schedules0 rows, 0 in the sample
id, service_id, location_id, freq, byday, opens_at, closes_at, description, notes
addresses1,249 rows, 134 in the sample
id, location_id, address_1, city, state_province, postal_code, country, address_type
service_areas1,802 rows, 171 in the sample
id, service_id, name, description
languages0 rows, 0 in the sample
id, service_id, name
taxonomies3 rows, 3 in the sample
id, name, description, uri, version
taxonomy_terms32 rows, 32 in the sample
id, code, name, description, taxonomy, taxonomy_id
attributes11,509 rows, 1,193 in the sample
id, link_id, link_type, link_entity, taxonomy_term_id, value
| Table | Rows | In the sample | Fields |
|---|---|---|---|
| organizations | 1,386 | 154 | id, name, alternate_name, description, website |
| services | 1,560 | 156 | id, organization_id, name, alternate_name, description, url, status, application_process, eligibility_description, assured_date |
| locations | 1,262 | 136 | id, location_type, organization_id, name, description, latitude, longitude |
| service_at_locations | 1,423 | 138 | id, service_id, location_id |
| phones | 2,796 | 300 | id, number, extension, service_id, location_id, organization_id |
| schedules | 0 | 0 | id, service_id, location_id, freq, byday, opens_at, closes_at, description, notes |
| addresses | 1,249 | 134 | id, location_id, address_1, city, state_province, postal_code, country, address_type |
| service_areas | 1,802 | 171 | id, service_id, name, description |
| languages | 0 | 0 | id, service_id, name |
| taxonomies | 3 | 3 | id, name, description, uri, version |
| taxonomy_terms | 32 | 32 | id, code, name, description, taxonomy, taxonomy_id |
| attributes | 11,509 | 1,193 | id, link_id, link_type, link_entity, taxonomy_term_id, value |
Known gaps
- No food pantries or meal sites for South Carolina yet.
- Changes made by organizations that claimed their listing, and links we fixed after a check, reach these files later.
- Hours are listed for food sites. For offices and programs, call or check the source page.
- The API has no full-text search, ZIP code or distance filters yet. The files cover bulk use.
How to cite
Please credit Front Door and say which release you used.
Front Door (localcarehub.org). Human services in South Carolina, HSDS 3.3.1, release 2026-10-10. CC BY 4.0. https://localcarehub.org/open-data/south-carolina@misc{frontdoor_hsds_sc_20261010,
author = {{Front Door}},
title = {Human services in South Carolina, HSDS 3.3.1, release 2026-10-10},
year = {2026},
note = {HSDS 3.3.1. CC BY 4.0},
url = {https://localcarehub.org/open-data/south-carolina}
}License
Our own research is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0: the offices, the state programs, the descriptions we write and how we match records to kinds of help. Records from public sources keep their source's terms, and each one names its source. Check the source before you rely on a record.
Front Door is an independent service, not a government website.