Carrier Route

carrier_routeGeographyText

The USPS carrier route code (postal delivery routing identifier) associated with the person's household location. Known or imputed for 118.5 million addresses — 100.0% of the addresses Faraday knows.

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At a glance

Coverage today
100.0%
Typical coverage
99.5%
Addresses with a value
118.5M
Share in largest category
4.2%
Most values come
from the address
Latest collection
May 1, 2026

How the categories split

n = 118,544,270

Share of addresses in each category. 99+ categories, of which the 20 largest are shown, with 4.2% in the largest.

R001
4.2%
R002
3.6%
C001
3.0%
R003
2.9%
C002
2.7%
R004
2.4%
C003
2.3%
C004
2.1%
R005
1.9%
C005
1.9%
C006
1.8%
C007
1.6%
R006
1.6%
C008
1.6%
C009
1.5%
C010
1.4%
C011
1.4%
C012
1.3%
R007
1.3%
C013
1.3%
All other values
58.2%
Distinct categories
99+
Share in largest category
4.2%
Share in top 3 categories
10.7%

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.

  • R0014.18%4,954,053 addresses
  • R0023.60%4,267,753 addresses
  • C0012.97%3,516,911 addresses
  • R0032.95%3,494,230 addresses
  • C0022.72%3,222,244 addresses
  • R0042.36%2,799,903 addresses
  • C0032.32%2,747,685 addresses
  • C0042.09%2,472,732 addresses
  • R0051.92%2,280,839 addresses
  • C0051.90%2,251,251 addresses
  • C0061.76%2,082,406 addresses
  • C0071.64%1,942,719 addresses
  • R0061.58%1,876,783 addresses
  • C0081.56%1,847,306 addresses
  • C0091.49%1,760,675 addresses
  • C0101.43%1,694,852 addresses
  • C0111.37%1,620,738 addresses
  • C0121.33%1,576,344 addresses
  • R0071.32%1,567,190 addresses
  • C0131.28%1,517,050 addresses
  • C0141.22%1,448,579 addresses
  • C0151.19%1,413,299 addresses
  • C0161.13%1,343,082 addresses
  • R0081.13%1,333,672 addresses
  • C0171.08%1,285,975 addresses
  • C0181.05%1,247,702 addresses
  • C0211.01%1,191,473 addresses
  • C0191.00%1,180,926 addresses
  • R0090.98%1,160,260 addresses
  • R0110.96%1,138,902 addresses
  • C0200.96%1,134,316 addresses
  • C0220.95%1,121,622 addresses
  • C0230.92%1,090,671 addresses
  • C0240.91%1,077,318 addresses
  • R0100.86%1,025,109 addresses
  • C0250.85%1,011,605 addresses
  • C0260.80%953,394 addresses
  • R0120.78%925,671 addresses
  • C0270.77%914,422 addresses
  • C0280.73%866,633 addresses

Category shares over time

R0014.2% (largest)

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

Mar 2024Nov 2024Apr 2025Oct 2025Dec 2025May 2026
R001R002R003C001C002

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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.

Mar 24Dec 24Mar 25Jun 25Oct 25Jan 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 91% 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 13 days
since the latest collection
every two months
new collection cadence
Mar 24Nov 24Apr 25Oct 25Dec 25Mar 26

Change between collections

The share of addresses whose category changed.

0.7%

of addresses changed value between the two most recent collections — 18.0× steadier than the catalog median of 13.5%.

Contribution ledger

13 ingestions

1 authority contributed since Mar 2024.

ObservedIngestedCountID
2026-06-012026-10-09263,433,64974d6c94c…
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…

Related attributes

Attributes whose descriptions are closest to this one.

Technical details

API name
carrier_route
Category
fig/geography
Type · unit
Text
Statistical type
categorical
Allowed values
null
Derivations
null
Directionality
null
Deprecation
false

In a payload

{
  "attributes": {
    "carrier_route": "R001"
  }
}