Research catalog

Self-storage research built to be inspected, reproduced, and cited.

Storage Units Near Me publishes evidence boundaries as visibly as findings. This catalog separates qualified releases, collection programs, public benchmarks, and shopper guidance so a journalist, analyst, or retrieval system can tell what each number actually measures.

Collection and validationMethodology v1.0.0

Public Asking-Rate Index

A constant-quality index of recurring advertised online self-storage rent. The collection pipeline and publication gates are public; a numeric series is not released until the observed sample qualifies.

Public benchmark

BLS self-storage gross-rent PPI

The research system retains 210 monthly observations from federal series WPU431104 for external validation. This producer gross-rent index is a different estimand from new-customer web asking rent and is never presented as a substitute.

Latest cached observation: 2026-05 · 163.041 · +1.09% year over year

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Publication standard

What every release must prove

Observed evidence is kept separate from internal planning models.
Every published estimate carries its sample, coverage, uncertainty, and release status.
Historical release files are content-addressed, checksum-verified, and deployment-protected; an external preservation record is required before we claim an archive or DOI.
Robots decisions, source URLs, parser versions, exclusions, and revisions are auditable.
A geography is suppressed when it cannot pass the declared evidence gate.
Raw third-party records are not redistributed without explicit usage rights.

Research reference pages