Virginia

State programs

33

Local offices

1,780

Nonprofits

41

Food sites

102

Services by kind of help

• Education392
• Housing368
• Food291
• Money232
• Health229
• Work212
• Legal help158
• Care148
• Safety146
• Other85

• 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.

Each HSDS table, how many rows it has, and the fields we fill in. The free sample has the same fields.

• organizations1,921 rows, 221 in the sample

  id, name, alternate_name, description, website

• services2,261 rows, 227 in the sample

  id, organization_id, name, alternate_name, description, url, status, application_process, eligibility_description, assured_date

• locations1,777 rows, 203 in the sample

  id, location_type, organization_id, name, description, latitude, longitude

• service_at_locations2,076 rows, 207 in the sample

  id, service_id, location_id

• phones3,785 rows, 410 in the sample

  id, number, extension, service_id, location_id, organization_id

• schedules170 rows, 17 in the sample

  id, service_id, location_id, freq, byday, opens_at, closes_at, description, notes

• addresses1,757 rows, 201 in the sample

  id, location_id, address_1, city, state_province, postal_code, country, address_type

• service_areas2,855 rows, 300 in the sample

  id, service_id, name, description

• languages5 rows, 0 in the sample

  id, service_id, name

• taxonomies3 rows, 3 in the sample

  id, name, description, uri, version

• taxonomy_terms35 rows, 35 in the sample

  id, code, name, description, taxonomy, taxonomy_id

• attributes16,678 rows, 1,756 in the sample

  id, link_id, link_type, link_entity, taxonomy_term_id, value

• 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.

Please credit Front Door and say which release you used.

Front Door (localcarehub.org). Human services in Virginia, HSDS 3.3.1, release 2026-10-10. CC BY 4.0. https://localcarehub.org/open-data/virginia

@misc{frontdoor_hsds_va_20261010,
  author = {{Front Door}},
  title = {Human services in Virginia, 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/virginia}
}

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.