Family composition

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Classifies a household by the marital status of adults and the presence or absence of children. Known or imputed for 257.6 million individuals — 100.0% of Faraday's identity graph.

257,569,338 people have this value. You only pay for people we match.

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At a glance

Coverage today
100.0%
Typical coverage
98.1%
Individuals with a value
257.6M
Share in largest category
27.2%
Most values come
from the person
Latest collection
Jun 1, 2026

How the categories split

n = 257,569,338

Share of individuals in each category. 16 categories, with 27.2% in the largest.

since previous collection
14 = One person, female householder, with NO children under age 18 present.
27.2%+0.1 pts
12 = One person, male householder, with NO children under age 18 present.
24.4%+0.2 pts
02 = Married, husband and wife present, with NO children under age 18 present.
20.9%−0.3 pts
01 = Married, husband and wife present, with children under age 18 present.
8.5%−0.2 pts
08 = Female householder with one or more other persons of any gender, with NO children under age 18 present.
4.3%+0.1 pts
06 = Male householder with one or more persons of any gender, with NO children under age 18 present.
4.3%
04 = Two persons, one male and one female, marital status unknown, with NO children under age 18 present.
3.1%
13 = One person, female householder, with children under age 18 present.
2.9%
07 = Female householder with one or more other persons of any gender, with children under age 18 present.
1.6%
11 = One person, male householder, with children under age 18 present.
1.0%
05 = Male householder with one or more other persons of any gender, with children under age 18 present.
1.0%
16 = One person, unknown gender, with NO children under age 18 present.
0.4%
03 = Two persons, one male and one female, marital status unknown, with children under age 18 present.
0.4%
10 = Two or more persons of unknown gender with NO children under age 18 present.
0.027%
15 = One person, unknown gender, with children under age 18 present.
0.0056%
09 = Two or more persons of unknown gender with children under age 18 present.
0.00063%
Distinct categories
16
Share in largest category
27.2%
Share in top 3 categories
72.5%

Category shares over time

14 = One person, female householder, with NO children under age 18 present.27.2% (largest)

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

Jun 2024Mar 2025Jul 2025Nov 2025Feb 2026Jun 2026
14 = One person, female householder, with NO children under age 18 present.12 = One person, male householder, with NO children under age 18 present.02 = Married, husband and wife present, with NO children under age 18 present.01 = Married, husband and wife present, with children under age 18 present.08 = Female householder with one or more other persons of any gender, with NO children under age 18 present.

Coverage

Latest collection: 223,305,428 individuals

Coverage by state

Percentage of individuals in each state with a value.

Coverage over time

100.0% today

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

Jul 23Jun 24Mar 25Jul 25Nov 25Feb 26Jun 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 — 100%
A named person, from a record about that person.
From address — 0%
Not used for this attribute — no value is inherited this way.
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 47% 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.

Jun 1, 2026
latest collection
4 months 15 days
since the latest collection
every two months
new collection cadence
Jun 24Mar 25Jul 25Nov 25Feb 26May 26

Change between collections

The share of individuals whose category changed.

0.8%

of individuals changed value between the two most recent collections — 21.1× steadier than the catalog median of 16.0%.

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 Family composition back in real time.

  1. Add family_composition to a project.
  2. Send an email, phone, or address to the project's append endpoint. The response carries Family composition 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":{"family_composition":"14 = One person, female householder, with NO children under age 18 present."}}
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Technical details

API name
family_composition
Category
fig/demography
Type · unit
Text
Statistical type
nominal
Allowed values
null
Derivations
null
How values combine
Read from a single source field.
Directionality
null
Deprecation
false