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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

TableRowsIn the sampleFields
organizations1,386154id, name, alternate_name, description, website
services1,560156id, organization_id, name, alternate_name, description, url, status, application_process, eligibility_description, assured_date
locations1,262136id, location_type, organization_id, name, description, latitude, longitude
service_at_locations1,423138id, service_id, location_id
phones2,796300id, number, extension, service_id, location_id, organization_id
schedules00id, service_id, location_id, freq, byday, opens_at, closes_at, description, notes
addresses1,249134id, location_id, address_1, city, state_province, postal_code, country, address_type
service_areas1,802171id, service_id, name, description
languages00id, service_id, name
taxonomies33id, name, description, uri, version
taxonomy_terms3232id, code, name, description, taxonomy, taxonomy_id
attributes11,5091,193id, 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
BibTeX
@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.