Air conditioning system type

air_conditioning_system_typePropertyText

Categorizes the property's air conditioning equipment (e.g., central, window unit, evaporative, none). Known or imputed for 39.1 million addresses — 33.0% of the addresses Faraday knows.

At a glance

Coverage today
33.0%
Typical coverage
32.4%
Addresses with a value
39.1M
Share in largest category
79.4%
Most values come
from the address
Latest collection
May 1, 2026

How the categories split

n = 39,088,860

Share of addresses in each category. 22 categories, of which the 20 largest are shown, with 79.4% in the largest.

CENTRAL - central
79.4%
CENTRAL - split system
4.9%
REFRIGERATION - refrigeration
4.6%
NONE - none
3.1%
PACKAGE - package
2.0%
EVAPORATIVE - evaporative
1.2%
SPECIALTY - separate system
1.1%
SPECIALTY - heat pump
0.7%
SPECIALTY - dual unit
0.7%
WALL/WINDOW - window unit
0.6%
CENTRAL - central & unit
0.6%
EVAPORATIVE - fan cooling
0.5%
WALL/WINDOW - wall unit
0.4%
WALL/WINDOW - wall and window unit
0.3%
PACKAGE - package roof
0.1%
SPECIALTY - solar
0.0%
REFRIGERATION - chilled water
0.0%
SPECIALTY - partial
0.0%
SPECIALTY - commercial a and c
0.0%
REFRIGERATION - refrigeration and evaporation
0.0%
All other values
0.0%
Distinct categories
22
Share in largest category
79.4%
Share in top 3 categories
88.8%

Every category

22 categories

The chart above draws the 20 largest. Search here for one it does not.

  • CENTRAL - central79.37%31,025,722 addresses
  • CENTRAL - split system4.87%1,901,931 addresses
  • REFRIGERATION - refrigeration4.59%1,796,124 addresses
  • NONE - none3.06%1,196,675 addresses
  • PACKAGE - package1.99%776,788 addresses
  • EVAPORATIVE - evaporative1.21%471,685 addresses
  • SPECIALTY - separate system1.05%410,954 addresses
  • SPECIALTY - heat pump0.68%265,409 addresses
  • SPECIALTY - dual unit0.67%261,561 addresses
  • WALL/WINDOW - window unit0.63%247,634 addresses
  • CENTRAL - central & unit0.61%238,944 addresses
  • EVAPORATIVE - fan cooling0.46%181,334 addresses
  • WALL/WINDOW - wall unit0.38%148,033 addresses
  • WALL/WINDOW - wall and window unit0.29%111,546 addresses
  • PACKAGE - package roof0.06%23,403 addresses
  • SPECIALTY - solar0.02%9,294 addresses
  • REFRIGERATION - chilled water0.02%7,613 addresses
  • SPECIALTY - partial0.01%5,064 addresses
  • SPECIALTY - commercial a and c0.01%4,346 addresses
  • REFRIGERATION - refrigeration and evaporation0.01%3,123 addresses
  • CENTRAL - central partial0.00%1,497 addresses
  • SPECIALTY - office only0.00%180 addresses

Category shares over time

CENTRAL - central79.4% (largest)

The 5 largest categories, each followed across 12 collections. Estimated from a 1% sample of addresses.

Feb 2025Apr 2025Jun 2025Dec 2025Feb 2026May 2026
CENTRAL - centralCENTRAL - split systemREFRIGERATION - refrigerationNONE - nonePACKAGE - package

Coverage

Latest collection: 98,683,954 addresses

Coverage by state

Percentage of addresses in each state with a value.

Coverage over time

33.0% today

Share of addresses holding a value at each monthly snapshot. A value carries forward for one year.

Jul 23Jun 24Jan 25Apr 25Jul 25Nov 25Feb 26May 26

How we arrive at a value

Whether a value was observed on the person themselves, carried from their address, or estimated from the people around them.

On the person — 0%
Not used for this attribute — no value is inherited this way.
From address — 100%
Carried from what we know about the household at their address.
From geography — 0%
Not used for this attribute — no value is inherited this way.

Coverage, in context

Where 33.0% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.

catalog min 0%max 100%

Higher coverage than 49% of address-level attributes in the catalog

Freshness

How recently this was collected, and how often a new collection arrives. Each bar is the number of addresses in that collection. Gaps are real — collection is periodic, not continuous.

May 1, 2026
latest collection
5 months 2 days
since the latest collection
monthly
new collection cadence
Feb 25Apr 25Jun 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26

Change between collections

The share of addresses whose category changed.

0.0%

of addresses changed value between the two most recent collections — 955.3× steadier than the catalog median of 13.5%.

Contribution ledger

17 ingestions

1 authority contributed since Jul 2023.

ObservedIngestedCountID
2026-05-012026-07-01125,639,012f9d55800…
2026-04-012026-07-01121,548,788178f88a6…
2026-03-012026-07-0172,154,489a1e715b0…
2026-02-012026-07-01121,865,620b70b01b3…
2026-01-012026-07-01120,035,0582786571a…

Technical details

API name
air_conditioning_system_type
Category
fig/property
Type · unit
Text
Statistical type
nominal
Allowed values
null
Derivations
Unspecified
Directionality
null
Deprecation
false

In a payload

{
  "attributes": {
    "air_conditioning_system_type": "CENTRAL - central"
  }
}