# Community

Community profiles, boundaries, demographics, health, environmental, risk, and food-access indicators.

## Access

- Kind: api
- Audience: public
- Access: open
- Authentication: No authentication is required for documented public read operations.
- Lifecycle: active
- Observed health: operational

## Integration links

- Base URL: https://community.datasourceapi.com
- Documentation: https://community.datasourceapi.com/docs
- OpenAPI: https://community.datasourceapi.com/api/v1/openapi.json
- Status: https://community.datasourceapi.com/api/v1/status
- Repository: https://github.com/coopalliance/cca-community
- Catalog metadata: https://services.datasourceapi.com/api/v1/services/community

## Capabilities

- boundaries
- community-profiles
- demographics
- environment
- public-health

## Provenance and freshness

- U.S. Census Bureau: ACS and TIGERweb demographics and boundaries. (https://www.census.gov/)
- Public risk and health programs: CDC PLACES and SVI, EPA EJScreen, FEMA NRI, and USDA Food Access datasets.

Update cadence: Daily and six-hour checks with source freshness windows ranging from 7 to 90 days.. Metadata last verified: 2026-09-03.


## Agent readiness

partial (70/100): Machine-readable documentation is available, with incomplete operation identifiers and examples in the wider fleet audit.

## Examples

### Service status

Inspect current community source coverage and health.

```http
GET https://community.datasourceapi.com/api/v1/status
```