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SwornPulse

A free community safety map. Crime is just the start.

Years ago I built a free public crime map. We sold the company to LexisNexis in 2015, and the free map didn't survive the sale. So I built a new one. SwornPulse is free, it covers the whole country, and it maps a lot more than crime.

Open the map For researchers
50
States + DC
83k+
Census tracts
16,669
Public libraries
$0
To use it

A crime dot on a map tells you where something bad happened. It doesn't tell you whether that neighborhood has a library, a clinic, a park, or a decent shot at a job. Safety is bigger than crime.

So SwornPulse maps the things that actually shape a community. Health and life expectancy. Income, poverty, and education. Housing. Service and volunteering. And yes, crime. Look at them together and you start to see the whole picture, not just the scary part.

Good Deeds Daily is on there too. Someone shovels an elderly neighbor's driveway, a stranger changes a tire in the rain, a teacher stays late for a kid who needed it. Those shape a community as much as any arrest report. They just never make the map. Now they do.

// Sean Bair, founder of SWORN.ai

What it maps

One map. The whole community.

Every layer is a toggle. Turn on what you care about, stack them, and read them against each other. Zoom out for state and county patterns; zoom in for tract, ZIP, and street level.

Crime & dispatch

Live incident feeds from a dozen cities pulled straight from their open-data portals, plus computer-aided dispatch records. Eight state-level crime rates from the FBI: violent, property, murder, assault, robbery, burglary, theft, and vehicle theft.

Point • State

Health & wellbeing

Seventeen health metrics plus a wellbeing composite: life expectancy, obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer deaths, drug overdose, suicide, mental health, food insecurity, air quality, and more.

State

Demographics

Twenty Census measures at three zoom levels: income, poverty, employment, education, home value and rent, ownership, age, and racial and ethnic makeup. Down to the census tract and ZIP.

Tract • ZIP • State

Community resources

16,669 public library outlets and 2,406 YMCA locations, mapped as searchable pins. Plus a county Joy Index built from parks, gyms, restaurants, civic life, and food access.

Point • County

Public safety

Officer staffing across nearly 17,000 law enforcement agencies, by state and county. Sex offender registry counts by state, shown with the required legal-use disclaimer.

State • County

Good deeds & service

Citizen-reported acts of kindness through Good Deeds Daily, with addresses offset for privacy. Live volunteer openings near you through JustServe.

Point • Live

Analytics & export

Heatmaps, trend lines, and sortable tables for whatever you have on screen. Radius search around any point. Export the visible view to CSV.

Tools

Faith & community

Congregation density and dominant religious tradition by county, from the 2020 U.S. Religion Census. Neutral coloring, no ranking, just the map.

County
For researchers, analysts & students

A head start, not a substitute.

I taught crime analysis before I taught business strategy. I know what it is to need clean national data and hit a paywall or a dead portal. SwornPulse pulls a lot of public data into one place so you can see it on a map. Use it to teach a class, explore a question, or form a hypothesis before you spend a grant on the raw dataset.

A note on reuse, because it matters. The map is free to use, and free to show your class. The underlying government data is public and belongs to its sources; every one is linked below, so go straight to the primary file if you need the raw numbers. SwornPulse's own scoring and composite indices are proprietary, so if you want to reproduce or publish from those specifically, email info@sworn.ai first and we'll sort it out.

The data behind the map

Public sources, by layer. These are the primary datasets you can cite and download directly.
Crime incidents Point, live
City open-data portals via Socrata and ArcGIS (Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, Dallas, and more). Start at data.gov or your city's portal.
State crime rates State, 2024
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program. Crime Data Explorer.
Health & wellbeing State
CDC BRFSS and WONDER, NCHS (life expectancy), HRSA AHRF, EPA Air Quality System, and USDA ERS (food insecurity).
Demographics Tract, ZIP, state
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 5-year estimates.
Community Joy Index County
Public libraries Point, FY2023
IMLS Public Libraries Survey, outlet file.
YMCA locations Point
OpenStreetMap, filtered to real facilities.
Faith & community County, 2020
U.S. Religion Census, Religious Congregations and Membership Study, via USReligionCensus.org and ARDA. Citation required (below).
Sex offender registry State
State registries aggregated against NSOPW and NCMEC counts, Census ACS population. Legal-use restrictions apply.
Service opportunities Point, live
JustServe, live volunteer listings.
Required citation for the Faith & Community layer. If you use the religion data, the source study asks you to cite it in full:
Grammich, C., Hadaway, K., Houseal, R., Jones, D.E., Krindatch, A., Stanley, R., & Taylor, R.H. (2022). U.S. Religion Census Religious Congregations and Membership Study, 2020. Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies.

Some layers ship with demo or sample records while live pipelines come online, and survey-based estimates carry the usual margins of error. Treat SwornPulse as a fast way to see and compare, then confirm against the primary source before you publish.

Go look at your town.

It's free, it works on your phone, and there's nothing to sign up for. Turn on a few layers and see what your community actually looks like.

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SwornPulse is a product of SWORN.ai. The map and its analysis are free to use.
Underlying public data belongs to its respective government sources.