LA Receipts turns the City of Los Angeles's public financial data into something the public can actually read. Live numbers, pulled from city data portals, with the methodology in plain view.
An open-source civic transparency tool built to make City of LA financial data easier to explore and understand. Not a watchdog report. Not an opinion piece. A live, queryable interface to the city's own numbers.
All data comes from public sources — primarily data.lacity.org and controllerdata.lacity.org — via the Socrata API. No private records. No scraped data. Nothing the city itself doesn't already publish.
Numbers refresh on a short cache (most data hourly; the near-real-time spending feed every ~15 minutes) through ISR, keeping figures current without overwhelming the source APIs.
Every chart and table on this site is built on public city data. The core sources are below.
Open Budget Appropriations
data.lacity.org
City Employee Payroll
controllerdata.lacity.org
Checkbook LA Vendor Payments
controllerdata.lacity.org
MyLA311 Service Requests
data.lacity.org
LAPD NIBRS Offenses
data.lacity.org
Building Permits (2020+)
data.lacity.org
Homelessness Expense Tracker
controllerdata.lacity.org
Revenue Collections by Fiscal Year
controllerdata.lacity.org
Pensions, liabilities, contracts & more
controllerdata.lacity.org
Four rules govern how data appears on this site:
This project is open source. Contributions, bug reports, and feedback are welcome.
Built for civic transparency — because public money deserves public scrutiny.
Made with care for the City of Los Angeles.