Carrier Route
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.
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 = 118,544,366Share of addresses in each category. 99+ categories, of which the 20 largest are shown, with 4.2% in the largest.
Every category
99+ categoriesThe 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%4,954,055 addresses
- R0023.60%4,267,754 addresses
- C0012.97%3,516,913 addresses
- R0032.95%3,494,233 addresses
- C0022.72%3,222,244 addresses
- R0042.36%2,799,903 addresses
- C0032.32%2,747,689 addresses
- C0042.09%2,472,734 addresses
- R0051.92%2,280,840 addresses
- C0051.90%2,251,253 addresses
- C0061.76%2,082,407 addresses
- C0071.64%1,942,721 addresses
- R0061.58%1,876,785 addresses
- C0081.56%1,847,306 addresses
- C0091.49%1,760,676 addresses
- C0101.43%1,694,853 addresses
- C0111.37%1,620,739 addresses
- C0121.33%1,576,347 addresses
- R0071.32%1,567,192 addresses
- C0131.28%1,517,051 addresses
- C0141.22%1,448,581 addresses
- C0151.19%1,413,300 addresses
- C0161.13%1,343,083 addresses
- R0081.13%1,333,672 addresses
- C0171.08%1,285,979 addresses
- C0181.05%1,247,702 addresses
- C0211.01%1,191,473 addresses
- C0191.00%1,180,928 addresses
- R0090.98%1,160,264 addresses
- R0110.96%1,138,902 addresses
- C0200.96%1,134,317 addresses
- C0220.95%1,121,625 addresses
- C0230.92%1,090,675 addresses
- C0240.91%1,077,319 addresses
- R0100.86%1,025,110 addresses
- C0250.85%1,011,606 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.
Coverage
Latest collection: 119,982,292 addressesCoverage by state
Percentage of addresses in each state with a value.
Coverage over time
100.0% todayShare of addresses holding a value at each monthly snapshot. A value carries forward for one year.
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.
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.
Change between collections
The share of addresses whose category changed.
of addresses changed value between the two most recent collections — 18.0× steadier than the catalog median of 13.5%.
Contribution ledger
12 ingestions
1 authority contributed since Mar 2024.
| Observed | Ingested | Count | ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-01 | 2026-09-10 | 266,506,942 | c5492806… |
| 2026-03-01 | 2026-07-01 | 264,096,977 | 1181277b… |
| 2026-02-01 | 2026-07-02 | 264,777,400 | af53c569… |
| 2025-12-01 | 2026-08-11 | 268,508,091 | 84d6a1c5… |
| 2025-11-01 | 2026-08-11 | 268,299,874 | a071c538… |
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"
}
}