Associated post office name

associated_post_office_nameGeographyText

Name of the USPS post office serving the individual's mailing address. Known or imputed for 118.6 million addresses — 100.0% of the addresses Faraday knows.

At a glance

Coverage today
100.0%
Typical coverage
99.1%
Addresses with a value
118.6M
Share in largest category
0.8%
Most values come
from the address
Latest collection
May 1, 2026

How the categories split

n = 118,591,284

Share of addresses in each category. 99+ categories, of which the 20 largest are shown, with 0.8% in the largest.

HOUSTON
0.8%
CHICAGO
0.7%
BROOKLYN
0.7%
LOS ANGELES
0.6%
NEW YORK
0.6%
MIAMI
0.5%
SAN ANTONIO
0.5%
LAS VEGAS
0.5%
PHILADELPHIA
0.5%
DALLAS
0.4%
COLUMBUS
0.4%
DENVER
0.4%
PHOENIX
0.4%
JACKSONVILLE
0.4%
SAN DIEGO
0.4%
AUSTIN
0.4%
MINNEAPOLIS
0.4%
PORTLAND
0.3%
CHARLOTTE
0.3%
CLEVELAND
0.3%
All other values
90.5%
Distinct categories
99+
Share in largest category
0.8%
Share in top 3 categories
2.2%

Every category

99+ categories

The chart above draws the 20 largest. Search here for one it does not. This list holds the 100 most common; rarer values are not named.

  • HOUSTON0.81%963,813 addresses
  • CHICAGO0.73%863,926 addresses
  • BROOKLYN0.67%791,966 addresses
  • LOS ANGELES0.56%669,687 addresses
  • NEW YORK0.55%658,072 addresses
  • MIAMI0.53%631,109 addresses
  • SAN ANTONIO0.53%630,744 addresses
  • LAS VEGAS0.50%596,308 addresses
  • PHILADELPHIA0.48%574,509 addresses
  • DALLAS0.42%493,912 addresses
  • COLUMBUS0.41%490,987 addresses
  • DENVER0.40%479,498 addresses
  • PHOENIX0.39%464,931 addresses
  • JACKSONVILLE0.39%461,155 addresses
  • SAN DIEGO0.36%425,066 addresses
  • AUSTIN0.36%421,836 addresses
  • MINNEAPOLIS0.35%415,323 addresses
  • PORTLAND0.35%413,675 addresses
  • CHARLOTTE0.35%410,448 addresses
  • CLEVELAND0.34%406,480 addresses
  • ATLANTA0.33%391,488 addresses
  • ORLANDO0.32%380,625 addresses
  • BRONX0.32%380,533 addresses
  • SEATTLE0.31%366,927 addresses
  • WASHINGTON0.31%365,623 addresses
  • INDIANAPOLIS0.31%364,546 addresses
  • SAINT LOUIS0.31%364,258 addresses
  • CINCINNATI0.29%349,610 addresses
  • SPRINGFIELD0.29%348,377 addresses
  • FT LAUDERDALE0.29%342,409 addresses
  • LOUISVILLE0.29%339,226 addresses
  • FORT WORTH0.28%332,109 addresses
  • TUCSON0.28%328,034 addresses
  • TAMPA0.26%312,667 addresses
  • RICHMOND0.26%310,556 addresses
  • MILWAUKEE0.26%304,568 addresses
  • ROCHESTER0.26%302,501 addresses
  • SAN FRANCISCO0.26%302,475 addresses
  • SAINT PAUL0.25%298,886 addresses
  • PITTSBURGH0.24%284,872 addresses

Category shares over time

HOUSTON0.8% (largest)

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

Mar 2024Nov 2024Apr 2025Oct 2025Dec 2025May 2026
HOUSTONBROOKLYNCHICAGOMIAMILAS VEGAS

Coverage

Latest collection: 119,982,292 addresses

Coverage by state

Percentage of addresses in each state with a value.

Coverage over time

100.0% 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 100.0% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.

catalog min 0%max 100%

Higher coverage than 93% 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
quarterly
new collection cadence
Mar 24Nov 24Apr 25Oct 25Dec 25Mar 26

Change between collections

The share of addresses whose category changed.

0.0%

of addresses changed value between the two most recent collections — 159900.5× steadier than the catalog median of 13.5%.

Contribution ledger

13 ingestions

1 authority contributed since Jul 2023.

ObservedIngestedCountID
2026-05-012026-09-10266,506,942c5492806…
2026-03-012026-07-01264,096,9771181277b…
2026-02-012026-07-02264,777,400af53c569…
2025-12-012026-08-11268,508,09184d6a1c5…
2025-11-012026-08-11268,299,874a071c538…

Technical details

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

In a payload

{
  "attributes": {
    "associated_post_office_name": "HOUSTON"
  }
}