Open data: family activities by U.S. metro area

Grassy Knees is a directory of real family events, places and programs for kids across major U.S. metro areas, where every listing is researched from the organizer’s own page and shows the date we last checked it. This table counts, for each metro area we cover, the listings that have not ended: dated events in the next 30 days and how many of them are free, classes and programs, places, the mix of activity types, the median ticket price of paid events, and how many towns have listings.

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By metro area

Metro area	Current listings	Events, next 30 days	Free	Median paid ticket	Towns
New York–Newark–Jersey City	564	336	37%	$18	115
Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim	440	298	48%	$17	90
Chicago–Naperville–Elgin	446	222	41%	$10	72
Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington	393	213	23%	$41	37
Houston–Pasadena–The Woodlands	313	169	27%	$29	27
Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Roswell	312	151	27%	$23.5	45
Washington–Arlington–Alexandria	335	191	39%	$10	64
Miami–Fort Lauderdale–West Palm Beach	359	185	23%	$24	42
Philadelphia–Camden–Wilmington	397	206	22%	$20	75
Phoenix–Mesa–Chandler	357	189	39%	$16.25	29
Boston–Cambridge–Newton	399	190	13%	$18	80
Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario	577	401	12%	$18	64
San Francisco–Oakland–Fremont	361	184	21%	$25	60
Detroit–Warren–Dearborn	397	231	38%	$10	71
Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue	427	212	45%	$15	59
Minneapolis–St. Paul–Bloomington	455	285	20%	$15	71
Tampa–St. Petersburg–Clearwater	385	217	43%	$20	37
San Diego–Chula Vista–Carlsbad	338	181	24%	$20	35
Denver–Aurora–Centennial	360	178	29%	$20	34
Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford	314	154	35%	$27.47	31
Charlotte–Concord–Gastonia	369	177	25%	$14.95	38
Baltimore–Columbia–Towson	397	167	18%	$10	57
St. Louis	310	152	22%	$15	46
San Antonio–New Braunfels	387	224	19%	$25	23
Austin–Round Rock–San Marcos	349	182	21%	$20	28
Portland–Vancouver–Hillsboro	307	133	32%	$13	35
Sacramento–Roseville–Folsom	302	159	50%	$15	37
Pittsburgh	317	172	21%	$20	52
Las Vegas–Henderson–North Las Vegas	344	169	38%	$10	12
Cincinnati	339	167	28%	$12	49
Kansas City	360	187	27%	$15	27
Columbus	335	159	18%	$15	34

Columns

listings_current: events, programs and places that have not ended.
events_next_30_days and free_events_next_30_days: dated events on in the next 30 days, and those free to attend.
programs, places and the category columns (outdoors, arts_and_crafts, stem_and_discovery, sports_and_play, community, cooking, other): current listings by type.
median_paid_event_price_usd: the median published price of paid events in the next 30 days, as the organizer lists it (usually one child’s ticket).
towns_with_listings: distinct towns and neighborhoods in the listings’ addresses. last_checked: the latest date a listing in the metro was checked.

How it’s made

Every listing is researched from the organizer’s own page and re-checked on a daily research run; see about Grassy Knees. The table is computed from the live catalog each time it’s loaded, so the numbers change as events are added and end. Counts cover what we have listed, not every event in a metro.