Austin public and semi-public pool inspections
Texas · Health inspections
- Published by
- Austin Public Health (City of Austin)
- Official source
- What's covered
- Pool and spa inspections by Austin Public Health over the last three years, with the published result (compliant, non-compliant, closures).
- History
- From 2023-10
- How often we sync
- Daily at 07:10 Central; the City refreshes the dataset every two weeks.
- Last complete sync
- Records
- 2,501 establishments
- 5,408 inspections
- 2,886 results filed as items
- How we get it
- Public API (Socrata SODA), read in full each run with keyset paging; verified against the dataset's own row count.
- Terms
- Published on the City of Austin open data portal (datahub.austintexas.gov) as Public Domain, as listed on the dataset (checked 2026-10-01). robots.txt asks for a 1-second crawl delay, which we keep. No sign-up or app token used.
- Attribution
- Source: City of Austin, Austin Public Health (data.austintexas.gov).
Known gaps
- Results only, no itemised findings: each non-compliant result is filed as one item labelled as the result.
- Inspections published with no result are not loaded (counted in each run's coverage note).
- Rolling three-year window; history accrues here.
How violation severity is mapped
Every cited violation is filed as serious, non-serious or unknown. Unknown is never counted as a clean record.
| The source says | We file it as | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Result “non-compliant: self-closure” | serious | Closed by the operator after the inspection (closure) |
| Result “non-compliant: coa-closure” | serious | Closed by the City of Austin (closure) |
| Result “non-compliant: open” | non-serious | Non-compliant, allowed to stay open |
| Result “non-compliant” | unknown | Non-compliant with no stated outcome |
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