Core based statistical area

Integer

Identifies the Core-Based Statistical Area (CBSA) where an individual resides. Known or imputed for 119.3 million addresses — 99.6% of the addresses Faraday knows.

At a glance

Coverage today
99.6%
Typical coverage
99.4%
Addresses with a value
119.3M
Most values come
from the address
Latest collection
Jun 1, 2026

Coverage

How widely Faraday has this attribute, and how precise its values are. How many of your own records get a value also depends on how many of them Faraday matches. The state map shows where coverage is thin. Coverage over time shows whether it is growing or shrinking.

Coverage by state

Percentage of addresses in each state with a value.

Coverage over time

99.6% today

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

Jul 23Nov 24Mar 25Jul 25Dec 25Apr 26Oct 26

How we arrive at a value

Latest collection: 119,378,791 addresses

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 99.6% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.

catalog min 0%max 100%

Higher coverage than 92% of address-level attributes in the catalog

Freshness

Whether the values reflect today. A long gap since the latest collection means they may lag behind what is true now.

Collections

How recently this was collected, and how often a new collection arrives. Each bar is one collection, sized by how many addresses it carried. Gaps are real — collection is periodic, not continuous.

Jun 1, 2026
latest collection
4 months 22 days
since the latest collection
every two months
new collection cadence
Jun 24Mar 25Jul 25Nov 25Feb 26May 26

Contribution ledger

14 ingestions

1 authority contributed since Jul 2023.

ObservedIngestedCountID
263,433,64974d6c94c-8e2b-48fe-a704-50c99ad3cdde
266,506,942c5492806-a892-460e-aba1-ee78ffb29c5b
264,096,9771181277b-b751-4a59-aae1-101fa3f55375
264,777,400af53c569-4fe2-4282-975b-4cbf5f85692d
268,508,09184d6a1c5-d142-4a4d-9cb3-902de4c82c30

Related attributes

Attributes whose descriptions are closest to this one.

Neighbors found Oct 2026.

Use it in the API

Send an email, phone, or address. Get Core based statistical area back in real time.

  1. Add core_based_statistical_area to a project.
  2. Send an email, phone, or address to the project's append endpoint. The response carries Core based statistical area for the matched person.
curl -X POST 'https://api.pro.faraday.ai/v1/projects/YOUR_PROJECT_ID/append' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
      "email": "jane.doe@example.com"
    }'
→ {"attributes":{"core_based_statistical_area":"<integer>"}}
Get it by APIAppend to a fileRead the API docs

Technical details

null in any row means the label does not apply, or is not recorded, for this attribute.

API name
The field to request through the API, and the key it comes back under in a payload.
core_based_statistical_area
Category
The catalog group the attribute is filed under.
fig/civic
Type · unit
The kind of value and, where it has one, its unit of measure. Counts on this page are in addresses, whatever the unit.
Integer
Statistical type
How the values are meant to be read: a measured amount, one of a ranked set, one of an unordered set, or several from an unordered set. The chart's form comes from the published values; for categories without a rank prefix, this label decides whether they are listed in rank order or by size.
nominal
Allowed values
The full list of values, when the attribute has a fixed set.
null
Derivations
How the value is produced, each with its definition.
Unspecified
How values combine
How the values from the attribute's sources become the one value delivered.
Read from a single source field.
Directionality
For ordered values, what a higher value means.
null
Deprecation
True when the attribute is being retired; choose another for new work.
false
API reference