| Source | What it feeds | Frequency | Access | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DWR Groundwater Data Viewer | Unconfined aquifer vs. 1976 baseline (−1.2M AF) | Monthly | Manual | Not recorded |
| NRCS SNOTEL | Snowpack % of average, Upper Rio Grande basin, peaked near 8%, worst in the basin's recorded history | Daily (season) | Live | 082626 |
| RGWCD annual reports | Annual deficit, over-pumping fee ($500/AF → $1,000) | Annual | Manual | Not recorded |
| Colorado School of Public Health, 1,000-Well Study | SLV. Arsenic in private wells, roughly 1 in 4 tested exceed the EPA 10 ppb limit (SDC Laboratory, the Valley's only water lab). Study led by Kathy James. Testing delivered by CDPHE, CSPH and the SLV Public Health Partnership. | Study-based | Manual | 081126 |
| Colorado Open Lands, PARA | Conservation easement acres / pipeline | Quarterly | Manual | Not recorded |
| DWR station RIODELCO, Rio Grande at Del Norte | Streamflow % of average. USGS stopped publishing gauge 08220000 on Jan 1, 2025; DWR is the primary record. The station page is JavaScript-rendered, so this needs a browser read. | Daily (real-time) | Manual | Not recorded |
| Colorado Water Court, Div. 3, Subdistrict 1 | SLV. Fourth Amended Plan trial status, closing arguments ended July 27, 2026; no ruling as of August 11, 2026; appeal expected either way | As filed | Manual | 081126 |
| Rio Grande Compact Commission / CWCB | SLV. Colorado held an accrued delivery credit of 7,200 AF as of January 1, 2025. Added to head off the common assumption that the 2031 deadline is a compact-violation problem, it is not. Colorado is meeting its interstate obligation; the aquifer deficit is internal to the Valley. | Annual | Manual | 081226B |
| Saguache County Firewise / USFS Title III | SAG. County wildfire mitigation runs on roughly $45,000/yr of USFS Title III money, tied to the same federal-land base as PILT, and therefore exposed to the same reauthorization risk. Stage 1 fire restrictions took effect June 18, 2026. | Annual | Manual | 081226B |
| U.S. Drought Monitor; groundwater governance timeline (SB 04-222, Subdistrict 1, pumping fees) | SLV. Current drought classification (D3 to D4, Aug 25, 2026) and a dated timeline of SLV groundwater governance milestones, both shown on Brian Lewandowski's (CU Leeds Business Research Division) San Luis Valley Economic Summit presentation, Sep 2, 2026. | Weekly / historical | Live | 090226 |
| Source | What it feeds | Frequency | Access | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Census Bureau ACS | Median income, poverty, child poverty, vacancy | Annual (Sept) | Live | Not recorded |
| DOLA State Demography Office | Population, net migration, growth | Quarterly/Annual | Live | Not recorded |
| BLS QCEW | Average weekly wage; sector employment | Quarterly | Live | Not recorded |
| Colorado CDLE LAUS | Unemployment rate | Monthly | Live | Not recorded |
| Placer.AI (ScSEED license) | Visitor foot-traffic & origin markets | Quarterly | Manual | Not recorded |
| U.S. Dept. of the Interior, FY2026 PILT county payments | SAG + SLV. DOI's own table lists Saguache at $755,329 on 1,396,548 eligible federal acres (six-county total ≈$3.05M: Conejos $1,150,671 · Rio Grande $812,971 · Saguache $755,329 · Alamosa $200,029 · Mineral $129,691 · Costilla $876). Saguache's own FY2026 Adopted Budget books PILT at $1,397,550 for the same year, consistent with three straight fiscal years in the county's signed budget resolutions. The dashboard now reports the county's own figure; this table is kept for comparison, and the gap between the two remains unresolved. | Annual | Live | 090326 |
| Saguache County FY2025 and FY2026 Adopted Budget resolutions and worksheets, County Clerk's office | SAG. Gives PILT and SRS as two separate figures, retiring the placeholder ≈$5.2M combined figure the Talk/Outline/Stage Reference had been carrying. PILT: $1,139,486 (2023 actual), $1,330,837 (2025 actual through Sept.), $1,397,550 (2026 Adopted Budget). SRS: $1,191,828 (2024), $1,200,000 (2025), not yet budgeted for 2026. LeRoy reviewed the source budget resolutions directly and confirmed this is now the reporting figure for PILT, replacing the DOI FY2026 table used previously. | Annual | Manual | 090326 |
| USDA NASS, 2022 Census of Agriculture, county profiles | SAG + SLV. Producer age. SLV: 1,060 of 2,827 are 65 or older (37%); 330 under 35. Saguache 211 of 520 (4.8:1); Alamosa 216 of 523 (5.5:1); Conejos 271 of 802; Rio Grande 220 of 654; Costilla 142 of 328. Mineral negligible. | 5-year | Live | 081126 |
| Urban Rural Continuum LLC, Casita Park For-Sale Market Snapshot (Mar 2026) | SAG. Prepared for the Saguache County Housing Authority. $300/sq ft build cost producing a $110,000 capital gap on a 1,200 sq ft home at $250K. Household growth 0.4% CAGR; job growth −0.2% CAGR through 2028; only 65+ growing. 64% out-commuting, ~50% in-commuting. ScSEED has no formal role in this project. Contested, capital gap: the $300/sq ft build cost here conflicts with the board strategy's below-$200/sq ft delivery target and a separate internal $350/sq ft ScSEED estimate; not reconciled, both shown on the dashboard. Contested, out-commuting: the 64% here is more than double ACS Table B08007's 29.9% for Saguache, almost certainly different denominators; not reconciled, both shown on the dashboard. | One-time | Live | 090326 |
| SLV Housing Affordability v3a (Jun 2026) · SLV Housing Needs Assessment 2021 | SLV. ~1,885 homes needed. 47% of renters and 26% of owners cost-burdened. 31% of households have no worker at all vs 18% statewide. ~900 jobs unfilled against ~900 workers reaching retirement. Vacancy 30% vs 10% statewide, largely dilapidation, 35%+ of stock over 50 years old. Contested: vacancy also appears as 31.4% valley-wide (2026 CEDS, ACS 2023), 25.2% valley-wide and 24.6% Saguache (2025 Statistical Profile), and 16.3% Saguache (ACS 2024) -- different geographies, years and definitions; none of these are averaged together, see the dashboard's Housing pillar for all figures side by side. | Periodic | Live | 090326 |
| USFS PILT / Secure Rural Schools | SAG + SLV. Federal transfers stand in for an untaxable base, ~$6.4M/yr across six counties. P.L. 119-58 (Dec 2025) reauthorized SRS through FY2026 only; final FY2024-FY2025 payments arrive 2027. FY2027 has no current authorization. | Annual | Manual | 081726 |
| Census QuickFacts, Saguache County | SAG. Labor force participation (58.1%, 2020-2024) and bachelor's-degree-or-higher (31.3%), added as skills-diversity and workforce indicators. "Some college, no degree" specifically needs a separate ACS S1501 pull. Also the source of the corrected Saguache poverty rate, 23.7%, see the vintage note below. | 5-year ACS | Live | 081226B |
| Poverty and median income, geography and vintage note | SAG + SLV. Two corrections made in this revision. Poverty: the dashboard previously showed 17.8% in both views. That is the valley-wide figure; Saguache County alone is 23.7% (Census QuickFacts). The two are now shown separately, so the Saguache view no longer understates local poverty by about six points. Median household income: the 2025 SLV Statistical Profile gives $54,283 for Saguache while Census QuickFacts gives $50,082 for 2020-2024 in 2024 dollars. Both are ACS, different vintages, and the Census Bureau warns that vintages are not directly comparable. Cite one and name which, do not average them. | Annual | Live | 081226B |
| Census Business Formation Statistics | SAG + SLV. New business applications by county, released annually each June. Added as the entrepreneurship/diversification indicator; county figure not yet pulled. | Annual | Manual | 081226B |
| CNBC Top States for Business | State context. Colorado fell from 11th (2022) to 25th (2026), the headwind ScSEED's local work is set against. | Annual | Live | 081226B |
| Census Nonemployer Statistics & County Business Patterns | SAG. 758 nonemployer establishments against 130 employer establishments, 791 people on a payroll countywide, and payroll employment down 11.7% from 2022 to 2023 (reference year 2023). This is the sharpest available portrait of the local business base: overwhelmingly self-employed, with a payroll sector small enough that one closure moves the percentage. | Annual | Live | 081226B |
| SLV Economic Expert Consensus Analysis v3 | SLV. Synthesis of the published work of 30 leading San Luis Valley authorities, 2018-2026 (June 28, 2026). Source for: net recharge required to hit the 2031 target (~170,000 AF/yr); Saguache child poverty above 30%; ~136.7 MW solar operating across five utility-scale plants with ~155 MW approved; agriculture at ~30% of base income; government at 21% of valley jobs; all six counties designated HPSAs; and the Success Metrics table adopted as Dashboard indicators. Also the independent corroboration of the Saguache poverty correction: Alamosa, Costilla and Saguache are federally designated Persistent Poverty Counties at 20%+ for 30 years or more, which is inconsistent with the 17.8% previously shown. | Periodic | Manual | 081226B |
| La Puente, programs and reach | SLV. 44 years serving the Valley; 12,000+ residents currently receiving services; 250+ uninhabitable "invisible" dwellings documented against a formal count of zero. Programme set includes New Beginnings (vocational assessment, job placement and coaching, medication management, certified peer-specialist services, peer-led classes), Adelante Supportive Housing, Crisis Prevention, Street Outreach, VEGI, and a fifteen-pantry Food Bank Network. New chief executive as of March 2026 following Lance Cheslock's 36 years. Basis for restating Action 6 from ScSEED-led to La Puente-led. | Ongoing | Manual | 081226B |
| U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Outdoor Recreation Satellite Account | State context. Colorado's outdoor recreation economy at $18.1B (2024 data, released March 2026); $1.3 trillion and 5.2 million jobs nationally. Most public-lands visitor spending lands in rural gateway communities, the category the Valley's dark-sky and crane products compete in. | Annual | Live | 081226B |
| 2025 SLV Statistical Profile (SLV Development Resources Group / Council of Governments, March 2025) | SAG + SLV. Full county-by-county tables (p.4) confirm two items previously flagged: the base-industry household total (5,040) is a published row, "Households, Total," not a ScSEED aggregation, and its 408 line is SDO's own "Other Household Income," not dividends/interest/rent. Also confirms labor force change 2019-2023 (Valley −12.3%, Saguache −13.6%, p.3) previously marked NOT CONFIRMED, and independently reproduces the CEDS poverty-by-county figures to the decimal. Source for the new retail sales growth tile (SLV +31.2%, 2020-2024, p.4) and new veteran population tile (2,501, 8.6% of adults, p.3). The latter is new to the 2025 edition. Contested: this table's federal-only land share, 55.7% valley-wide, is also the source for the dashboard's land-ownership figure. The Summit talk separately speaks 46% including state land, which cannot be lower than a federal-only figure; the two have not been reconciled and this is flagged as the highest-priority open factual item in the set. | Annual | Live | 090326 |
| Gary Horvath / CBER, Colorado economic-update emails, Jun to Aug 2026 | State context. Statewide labor market only, no SLV-specific figures: May 2026 CO unemployment 3.9% (US 4.3%); Colorado wage/salary employment turned positive in May-June 2026 after 16 months of YoY declines; net +213,400 CO jobs Jan 2019 to Jul 2026, 76% concentrated in healthcare, professional/technical services, and state/local government. One line of context was added to the Saguache LAUS tile in the 082526 round, then pulled back out in 082626 per a direct call to keep this dashboard SLV-only, not reflected anywhere on the page now. Logged here as reviewed, in case a future SLV-specific figure surfaces in this series. | Monthly | Manual | 082626 |
| U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates, table B15003 | SAG + SLV. Educational attainment, population 25 and over, pulled directly for all six SLV counties plus Colorado (Claude in Chrome, cross-checked against the Bureau's own S1501 subject table for Colorado). Replaces the SLV CEDS Fig. 12 / B15002 transcription that summed to 88.2% (SLV) / 91.2% (Colorado) instead of 100%, open since the 081926 audit. SLV figure is population-weighted across the six counties, same convention as the income chart. | 5-year ACS | Live | 082626 |
| CU Leeds Business Research Division, SLV Economic Summit presentation (Brian Lewandowski), Sep 2, 2026 | SAG + SLV. Six items added: SLV-wide 12-month covered-employment change (BLS QCEW, precisely labeled on its own chart, marked Verified); Saguache 12-month covered-employment change (BLS QCEW, approximate, read from chart); SLV-wide QCEW wage and pay growth through Q3 2025; industry location quotients (approximate); Saguache state-taxable-sales trend through May 2026 YTD (approximate); and SLV labor-force year-over-year change through June 2026, which is far more current than the dashboard's existing 2019-2023 ACS-based figure. The remaining chart-read items stay marked Cited, not Verified, pending confirmation against the underlying BLS/Census tables. | One-time (Sep 2026 presentation) | Live | 090226 |
| Source | What it feeds | Frequency | Access | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO HCPF | Medicaid enrollment (% of population) | Monthly | Manual | Not recorded |
| CDPHE Vital Stats / ODA | Overdose deaths & trend | Annual/Monthly | Live | Not recorded |
| HRSA Health Workforce | Behavioral-health providers per 1,000; shortage status | Annual | Live | Not recorded |
| CDC BRFSS | Adults reporting poor mental health | Annual | Live | Not recorded |
| Colorado CDE | Free/reduced lunch (child-poverty proxy) | Annual | Live | Not recorded |
| Feeding America | Food-insecurity rate | Annual | Live | Not recorded |
| SLV Health / Hope in the Valley | Operating margin, beds, MAT patients, track full payer mix (Medicaid + ACA + commercial + uninsured), not Medicaid share alone | Quarterly | Manual | Not recorded |
| CO HCPF / CMS, RHTP (H.R.1 §71401) | Colorado $160M pool (CAH · behavioral health · opioid tx · EMS) | Annual cycles | Live | 081126 |
| UNC Sheps Center, closure risk | Conejos County Hospital on 9-hospital CO watch (Apr 2026) | Periodic | Manual | 081126 |
| HRSA Area Health Resources File / Shortage Areas | SLV. Primary care and specialist physicians per 100,000, added as standard access benchmarks; county figures not yet pulled. | Annual | Manual | 081226B |
| Census Small Area Health Insurance Estimates | SAG. 15.7% of Saguache residents under 65 are uninsured. Added because it is the leading indicator for the payer-mix erosion described above, uninsured patients using the emergency room as the front door are what turn a Medicaid cut into a hospital's operating loss. | Annual | Live | 081226B |
| SLV Local Foods Coalition, Community Food Access | SLV. The entire San Luis Valley is classified LILA (low-income, low-access) for food. Winter access is worst, thin shelves, high prices. The Coalition is testing community-owned co-ops, buying clubs and mobile markets; South Fork/Creede convened on grocery access in May 2026. | Ongoing | Manual | 081226B |
| Childcare access, Center for American Progress / Colorado Sun | State context, SAG gap. About half of Coloradans live in a childcare desert; the shortfall costs the state an estimated $2.7B a year in lost productivity. Added as a labor-force constraint rather than a family-services line, it sits directly against the 58.1% participation rate. The Saguache-specific licensed-capacity count is an open manual pull from the Colorado Shines registry. | Periodic | Manual | 081226B |
| Source | What it feeds | Frequency | Access | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alamosa News / Alamosa Citizen | Regional utility-scale solar (600 MW, Alamosa Co.) | As milestones | Live | Not recorded |
| Saguache County Planning / Assessor | Two solar pre-applications; data-center 1041 moratorium (May 5, 2026 → ~Nov 2026) | Quarterly | Manual | 081126 |
| SLVREC | Three data-center inquiries; grid/rate context | Annual | Manual | 081126 |
| Colorado Energy Office | Statewide renewable-energy progress | Annual | Live | Not recorded |
| CO Dept. of Agriculture, Agrivoltaics | Dual-use solar grant & pilots (Garnet Mesa model) | Grant cycles | Live | Not recorded |
| CU Leeds Business Research Division, SLV Economic Summit presentation (Brian Lewandowski), Sep 2, 2026 | SLV. Two historical-context items from the presentation's SLV timeline slide: first utility-scale solar in the Valley (2007) and the start of the SLVREC/Ciello gigabit fiber rollout (2014). | One-time (Sep 2026 presentation) | Live | 090226 |
| Source | What it feeds | Frequency | Access | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Placer.AI, Tourism module (ScSEED license) | Trips, visitors, visit-nights, stay, spending, origin DMAs | Monthly | Manual | Not recorded |
| NPS IRMA, Great Sand Dunes | Annual visitation (2023: 512,219; −14.6% 2024; −1.2% 2025) | Annual | Live | Not recorded |
| Colorado Open Lands & Friends of the SLV Refuges, crane migration study (2020) | SLV. Ciaglo, Balint & Nehring. 16,500 visitors over a 30-day window mid-February to mid-March; ~$3.5M economic impact including $118,000 in local taxes. | One-time study | Live | 081126 |
| Sangre de Cristo International Dark Sky Reserve (proposed) · SLV Tourism | SLV. Basis for a Valley-wide destination marketing organization, the only asset large enough to brand all six towns rather than fund six separate marketing budgets. | As designated | Manual | 081126 |
| Saguache County Tourism Council | Traditional lodging capacity, events, wayfinding | As available | Manual | Not recorded |
| Saguache County STR permit registry / AirDNA | SAG. Short-term rental unit count and % of housing stock, short-term rentals are the majority lodging-tax contributor in the Crestone area and were previously excluded from lodging counts; added here to fix that. Shared indicator with the Housing pillar (STR share of the 4,137-unit housing stock). No public county figure exists: confirmed August 12, 2026 that neither the state nor commercial aggregators publish a Saguache-level count, so this must come from the county's own permit registry cross-checked against AirDNA or Key Data. | Annual | Manual | 081226B |
| Colorado General Assembly, Short-Term Rentals issue brief | SAG + SLV. Colorado has no statewide STR statute. Any rental under 30 days is an STR, and counties hold the authority to license, cap and tax them. State sales tax 2.9% plus local lodging taxes typically 2-10%. Benchmark for judging a Saguache count when it arrives: Frisco caps STR licenses at 25% of residential stock (~900), a cap reached in February 2023, and most Colorado resort counties that set caps have hit them. Saguache's rules are the county's to write, which makes the count a policy input, not just a statistic. | As amended | Live | 081226B |
| Source | What it feeds | Frequency | Access | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Census ACS Housing (DP04/B25106/B25077/B25064) | Units, tenure, vacancy, median value, median rent, cost burden | Annual | Live | Not recorded |
| Saguache County Housing Authority | Workforce-unit pipeline (Range View, 32 units) | As milestones | Manual | Not recorded |
| SLV Housing Coalition, Regional Study | Severe housing-shortage prevalence (25.2%) | Periodic | Manual | Not recorded |
| CHFA / Bell Policy Center (2025) | Cost-burden benchmarks (CO statewide) | Annual | Live | Not recorded |
| DOLA, Proposition 123 State Affordable Housing Fund | SAG + SLV. Prop 123 has financed more than 10,000 homes statewide, including in rural communities previously locked out of state housing money. Status change: the FY2026-27 state budget reduced Prop 123 funding by $25.7M, so the dashboard's status moved from "Funding open" to "Open but reduced." Opting in still requires a 3%-a-year affordable-stock growth commitment and fast-track approval; DOLA planning-capacity grants exist for governments too small to staff the application. Apply earlier in the cycle, not later. | Annual cycles | Live | 081226B |
| Census Building Permits Survey & ACS housing detail | SAG. 70 building permits issued countywide in 2025 against 4,137 housing units, roughly 1.7%, much of it replacement rather than net new supply. Median gross rent $828; median owner cost $1,315 with a mortgage and $458 without; 76.9% owner-occupied. The thin rental market is why high vacancy and a housing shortage coexist without contradiction. | Annual | Live | 081226B |
| Dodge Construction Network; U.S. Census Bureau Building Permits Survey, via CU Leeds Business Research Division presentation, Sep 2, 2026 | SLV. Two items: value of construction (2025 +45% YoY, then down 48% through July 2026 YTD) and building permits (2025 -16%, then up 28% through July 2026 YTD, single-family and multifamily both rebounding). Neither series was previously on this dashboard. | One-time (Sep 2026 presentation) | Live | 090226 |
| Source | What it feeds | Frequency | Access | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, CAINC4 (Personal Income by County) | Total personal income, earned share, earnings by place of residence vs. place of work, six-county sums, 2024 | Annual | Live | Not recorded |
| U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, CAINC35 (Personal Current Transfer Receipts) | Detailed transfer breakdown: retirement/Social Security, medical benefits, cash assistance. Last updated Nov 16, 2023; carries no 2023 or 2024 data, so every detailed transfer percentage on this pillar is 2022. | Annual (stalled) | Live | Not recorded |
| U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, CAINC5N (Personal Income by Major Component and Earnings by Industry) | Farm earnings and government earnings, share of valley income, six-county sums, 2015-2024, no suppression in any county in any year | Annual | Live | Not recorded |