Program 2026.07 · reviewed 2026-07-11
US self-storage asking-rate research: data readiness report
The collection infrastructure and statistical protocol are now defined, but the audited legacy database contains zero provider-confirmed price observations, and the separate append-only public-research schema was not installed at audit time. Accordingly, no Storage Units Near Me numeric price index, state ranking, city estimate, or operator comparison is currently published.
Audited input layer
What exists, and what does not
| Input | Count | Research status |
|---|---|---|
| Directory sampling frame | 16,684 | Available; not a complete industry census |
| Detailed facility snapshots | 16,634 | Available |
| Facilities with a public website | 15,748 | 94.67% of detailed snapshots |
| Distinct public website domains | 5,211 | Candidate source universe |
| Stored unit records | 0 | Not yet available |
| Stored source listings | 0 | Not yet available |
| Stored price-history observations | 0 | Not yet available |
| Append-only public-research schema | Not installed | Separate from legacy shopper tables; required before research ingestion |
Independent benchmark
BLS/FRED gross-rent series
WPU431104 was 163.041 in 2026-05-01—a 1.09% year-over-year change.
This producer gross-rent benchmark spans 210 monthly observations. It is an external validation series with a different estimand; it is not substituted for newly advertised consumer web rents.
Verify the series on FREDCollection boundary
Public, attributable, reproducible
Validation collection is limited to explicitly allowlisted public facility pages permitted by robots rules. Robots permission is not a content-use license: research ingestion and aggregate publication additionally require an approved, versioned source-rights record. The collector does not use logins, reservation or lease flows, protected APIs, access-control circumvention, review anecdotes, or loose price snippets.
Reproducibility and provenance →National release gate
A number is published only if every gate passes
Pre-specified qualification exclusions
What cannot enter the index
- 01Robots or source policy does not permit collection of the public facility page.
- 02The observation requires authentication, a lease/reservation flow, a protected API, or circumvention.
- 03Currency is not USD or the price is missing, zero, or negative.
- 04Exact unit dimensions cannot be parsed or the price cannot be tied to one unit configuration.
- 05The quote is stale, unavailable, a review anecdote, a generic price range, or an unverified loose-text match.
- 06A duplicate source/facility/unit observation has already been retained for the collection timestamp.
- 07Core quality-adjustment attributes exceed the release missingness threshold.
Current conclusion
The correct research output today is a transparent zero-observation status—not a modeled national average. Numeric national, state, city, unit-size, promotion, climate-control, and operator findings remain suppressed until observed rates and their uncertainty satisfy the published protocol.