Exterior wall construction

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Indicates the primary material and surface treatment of a building's outer walls. Known or imputed for 135.3 million individuals — 52.5% of Faraday's identity graph.

At a glance

Coverage
52.5%
Individuals with a value
135.3M
Share in largest category
11.4%
Most values come
from the address
Latest collection
Oct 1, 2026

How the categories split

How values are spread across the records that have one. Use it to check that the attribute tells records apart: when one value holds nearly everyone, it will not separate audiences much. Categories are ranked by share, largest first. “All other values” groups the smallest into one bar.

Share by category

n = 135,260,714

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

since previous collection
BRICK - Brick
11.4%
ALUMINUM - Aluminum and vinyl
11.2%
OTHER - Vinyl
9.0%
FRAME - Frame
8.1%
BRICK - Brick veneer
5.6%
STUCCO - Stucco
4.7%
WOOD - Wood
3.2%
WOOD - Wood siding
3.1%
FRAME - Frame siding
2.6%
WOOD - Wood siding and shingle
2.5%
CONCRETE - Concrete block and stucco
2.2%
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
22.4%
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 - Brick11.4%15,384,312 individuals
  • ALUMINUM - Aluminum and vinyl11.2%15,150,743 individuals
  • OTHER - Vinyl9.0%12,178,886 individuals
  • FRAME - Frame8.1%10,926,403 individuals
  • BRICK - Brick veneer5.6%7,535,775 individuals
  • STUCCO - Stucco4.7%6,421,909 individuals
  • WOOD - Wood3.2%4,374,655 individuals
  • WOOD - Wood siding3.1%4,189,259 individuals
  • FRAME - Frame siding2.6%3,574,918 individuals
  • WOOD - Wood siding and shingle2.5%3,435,406 individuals
  • CONCRETE - Concrete block and stucco2.2%3,035,678 individuals
  • MASONRY - Masonry2.2%2,930,414 individuals
  • FRAME - Frame and stucco1.9%2,546,079 individuals
  • FRAME - Frame and masonry1.7%2,317,219 individuals
  • OTHER - Siding sheathing1.7%2,313,655 individuals
  • BRICK - Brick and wood1.7%2,240,834 individuals
  • OTHER - Concrete block stucco and hollow tile and frame and stud and sheathing and siding1.5%2,052,103 individuals
  • FRAME - Frame wood1.1%1,502,539 individuals
  • CONCRETE - Concrete block1.1%1,487,467 individuals
  • ALUMINUM - Aluminum siding1.0%1,334,365 individuals
  • FRAME - Frame concrete block and brick1.0%1,311,350 individuals
  • OTHER - Hardboard0.9%1,232,591 individuals
  • ALUMINUM - Aluminum0.9%1,190,274 individuals
  • FRAME - Frame and masonry and veneer0.9%1,152,251 individuals
  • MASONRY - Masonry veneer0.8%1,067,423 individuals
  • FRAME - Frame and vinyl0.8%1,051,045 individuals
  • WOOD - Wood frame0.7%1,004,711 individuals
  • OTHER - Masonite0.7%1,004,241 individuals
  • METAL - Metal0.6%843,184 individuals
  • OTHER - Lap siding0.6%810,050 individuals
  • WOOD - Wood sheathing0.6%792,204 individuals
  • MASONRY - Masonry and stucco0.6%748,590 individuals
  • FRAME - Frame brick0.5%728,316 individuals
  • OTHER - Composition0.5%679,275 individuals
  • CONCRETE - Concrete0.5%624,495 individuals
  • ASBESTOS - Asbestos0.4%604,705 individuals
  • BRICK - Brick and stone0.4%586,501 individuals
  • STONE - Stone0.4%581,080 individuals
  • FRAME - Frame hardboard0.4%521,664 individuals
  • OTHER - Plywood0.4%521,172 individuals

Category shares over time

11.4% (largest)

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

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

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 by state

Percentage of individuals in each state with a value.

How we arrive at a value

Latest collection: 103,037,911 individuals

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 52.5% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.

catalog min 0%max 100%

Higher coverage than 41% of individual-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 individuals it carried. Gaps are real — collection is periodic, not continuous.

Oct 1, 2026
latest collection
23 days
since the latest collection
monthly
new collection cadence
Oct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 26

Change between collections

How much values move between collections. Income or life events should move; heavy change in something steady can mean noisy data.

0.2%

of individuals changed value between the two most recent collections — 80.6× steadier than the catalog median of 16.0%.

Contribution ledger

34 ingestions

2 authorities contributed since Jul 2023.

ObservedIngestedCountID
159,411,145eb9d843a-e90f-4c0f-a6a1-6407824973f5
158,647,96937a05688-5576-4b35-a37f-ed31a1298842
158,084,49662d317f2-489c-456e-b464-9cfab59f2deb
263,433,64974d6c94c-8e2b-48fe-a704-50c99ad3cdde
266,506,942c5492806-a892-460e-aba1-ee78ffb29c5b

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 Exterior wall construction back in real time.

  1. Add exterior_wall_construction to a project.
  2. Send an email, phone, or address to the project's append endpoint. The response carries Exterior wall construction 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":{"exterior_wall_construction":"BRICK - Brick"}}
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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.
exterior_wall_construction
Category
The catalog group the attribute is filed under.
fig/property
Type · unit
The kind of value and, where it has one, its unit of measure. Counts on this page are in individuals, whatever the unit.
Text
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.
Observed
— the attribute is directly observed.
How values combine
How the values from the attribute's sources become the one value delivered.
Uses the first available of up to 2 source fields, in priority order. Fields come from the person and the address.
Directionality
For ordered values, what a higher value means.
null
Deprecation
True when the attribute is being retired; choose another for new work.
false
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