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How it works

From “how do we compare?” to an answer — in minutes.

GovFeeds turns 870,000+ public Facebook posts from 5,000+ city and county governments into peer benchmarks you can take into any meeting. Here’s the workflow.

Step 1

Start with a question

Search every Facebook post from every U.S. city and county government account we track. Look up a specific government, a topic (“road closure,” “hiring,” “parks”), or a phrase — across the whole country or just your state.

The index updates daily, so you’re searching what peers posted this week, not last quarter.

search
🔍  “snow plow”  in  North Carolina
2,847 matching posts · 412 accounts
Filters
Geography: NC
Population: 10k–50k
Last 30 days
Post type: Photo
Topic: Public safety
Top quartile
Step 2

Narrow to your real peers

Filter by geography, population band, time window, engagement tier, and post type. The point isn’t “all governments” — it’s governments like yours. Compare a 20,000-person town to other 20,000-person towns, not to a major metro.

Save a filter set as a peer group and reuse it every month.

Step 3

See exactly how you compare

GovFeeds auto-generates engagement benchmarks — reactions, comments, and shares per post — against your peer set’s median and top quartile. No spreadsheet wrangling, no manual averaging.

The answer to “are we doing well?” stops being a guess and becomes a number with context.

Your city vs peers · mean reactions / post
Your city38
Peer median24
Top quartile52

Illustrative. Your real numbers populate from live data on day one.

Export
📊 Monthly peer benchmark report
💾 Download filtered posts (CSV)
📷 Chart-ready visualizations
Step 4

Walk in ready

Export auto-generated visualizations for your monthly comms report, download the underlying posts as CSV, or request a custom monthly report comparing the accounts you choose to the peers you choose.

When council asks “how do we compare?”, the slide is already made.

Under the hood

Real posts. Real engagement. Refreshed daily.

GovFeeds isn’t survey data or estimates. It’s the actual public Facebook activity of local governments, collected and measured the same way for every account so comparisons are apples-to-apples.

5,000+ accounts

Public Facebook pages of U.S. city and county governments across all 50 states.

Engagement, measured

Reactions, comments, and shares per post — the signals that show whether residents responded.

Daily refresh

New posts and engagement flow in every day, so your benchmarks reflect this week, not last year.

See your own benchmarks in 60 seconds.

Start a free 14-day trial — no credit card — or get a free one-page benchmark for your city first.