Exterior wall construction

exterior_wall_constructionPropertyText

Indicates the primary material and surface treatment of a building's outer walls. Known or imputed for 131.2 million individuals — 52.5% of Faraday's identity graph.

At a glance

Coverage
52.5%
Individuals with a value
131.2M
Share in largest category
11.4%
Most values come
from the person
Latest collection
May 1, 2026

How the categories split

n = 131,169,326

Share of individuals in each category. 99+ categories, of which the 20 largest are shown, with 11.4% in the largest.

BRICK - Brick
11.4%
ALUMINUM - Aluminum and vinyl
11.3%
OTHER - Vinyl
9.0%
FRAME - Frame
8.1%
BRICK - Brick veneer
5.6%
STUCCO - Stucco
4.8%
WOOD - Wood
3.2%
WOOD - Wood siding
3.1%
FRAME - Frame siding
2.7%
WOOD - Wood siding and shingle
2.5%
CONCRETE - Concrete block and stucco
2.3%
MASONRY - Masonry
2.2%
FRAME - Frame and stucco
1.9%
FRAME - Frame and masonry
1.7%
OTHER - Siding sheathing
1.7%
BRICK - Brick and wood
1.7%
OTHER - Concrete block stucco and hollow tile and frame and stud and sheathing and siding
1.5%
FRAME - Frame wood
1.1%
CONCRETE - Concrete block
1.1%
ALUMINUM - Aluminum siding
1.0%
All other values
22.3%
Distinct categories
99+
Share in largest category
11.4%
Share in top 3 categories
31.6%

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.

  • BRICK - Brick11.40%14,956,782 individuals
  • ALUMINUM - Aluminum and vinyl11.27%14,780,357 individuals
  • OTHER - Vinyl8.96%11,754,481 individuals
  • FRAME - Frame8.06%10,570,204 individuals
  • BRICK - Brick veneer5.55%7,281,942 individuals
  • STUCCO - Stucco4.78%6,269,740 individuals
  • WOOD - Wood3.24%4,255,693 individuals
  • WOOD - Wood siding3.10%4,069,796 individuals
  • FRAME - Frame siding2.66%3,486,872 individuals
  • WOOD - Wood siding and shingle2.52%3,304,693 individuals
  • CONCRETE - Concrete block and stucco2.28%2,988,775 individuals
  • MASONRY - Masonry2.17%2,846,996 individuals
  • FRAME - Frame and stucco1.89%2,483,154 individuals
  • FRAME - Frame and masonry1.72%2,258,183 individuals
  • OTHER - Siding sheathing1.71%2,238,068 individuals
  • BRICK - Brick and wood1.67%2,190,182 individuals
  • OTHER - Concrete block stucco and hollow tile and frame and stud and sheathing and siding1.51%1,986,831 individuals
  • FRAME - Frame wood1.11%1,456,286 individuals
  • CONCRETE - Concrete block1.07%1,403,316 individuals
  • ALUMINUM - Aluminum siding0.99%1,293,681 individuals
  • FRAME - Frame concrete block and brick0.96%1,257,385 individuals
  • OTHER - Hardboard0.91%1,192,896 individuals
  • ALUMINUM - Aluminum0.90%1,178,795 individuals
  • FRAME - Frame and masonry and veneer0.86%1,121,935 individuals
  • FRAME - Frame and vinyl0.77%1,008,885 individuals
  • MASONRY - Masonry veneer0.76%1,003,117 individuals
  • OTHER - Masonite0.74%969,076 individuals
  • WOOD - Wood frame0.74%966,923 individuals
  • METAL - Metal0.62%816,375 individuals
  • OTHER - Lap siding0.61%794,710 individuals
  • WOOD - Wood sheathing0.58%766,050 individuals
  • MASONRY - Masonry and stucco0.56%733,058 individuals
  • FRAME - Frame brick0.54%707,531 individuals
  • OTHER - Composition0.50%660,557 individuals
  • CONCRETE - Concrete0.45%586,081 individuals
  • ASBESTOS - Asbestos0.45%584,691 individuals
  • BRICK - Brick and stone0.43%568,889 individuals
  • STONE - Stone0.43%566,471 individuals
  • OTHER - Plywood0.38%497,476 individuals
  • FRAME - Frame hardboard0.37%488,955 individuals

Category shares over time

BRICK - Brick11.4% (largest)

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

May 2025Jul 2025Oct 2025Dec 2025Feb 2026Apr 2026May 2026
BRICK - BrickALUMINUM - Aluminum and vinylOTHER - VinylFRAME - FrameBRICK - Brick veneer

Coverage

Latest collection: 328,373,014 individuals

Coverage by state

Percentage of individuals in each state with a value.

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 — 70%
A named person, from a record about that person.
From address — 30%
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 52.5% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.

catalog min 0%max 100%

Higher coverage than 43% of individual-level attributes in the catalog

Freshness

How recently this was collected, and how often a new collection arrives. Each bar is the number of individuals 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
May 25Jul 25Oct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26

Change between collections

The share of individuals whose category changed.

0.2%

of individuals changed value between the two most recent collections — 67.0× steadier than the catalog median of 13.5%.

Contribution ledger

30 ingestions

2 authorities contributed since Jul 2023.

ObservedIngestedCountID
2026-05-012026-09-10266,506,942c5492806…
2026-05-012026-07-01125,639,012f9d55800…
2026-04-012026-07-01121,548,788178f88a6…
2026-03-012026-07-01264,096,9771181277b…
2026-03-012026-07-0172,154,489a1e715b0…

Technical details

API name
exterior_wall_construction
Category
fig/property
Type · unit
Text
Statistical type
nominal
Allowed values
null
Derivations
Observed
— the attribute is directly observed.
Directionality
null
Deprecation
false

In a payload

{
  "attributes": {
    "exterior_wall_construction": "BRICK - Brick"
  }
}