Housing density
Estimates the number of housing units per square mile in the immediate area around an individual's address. Known or imputed for 117.0 million addresses — 98.6% of the addresses Faraday knows.
At a glance
- Coverage today
- 98.6%
- Typical coverage
- 97.9%
- Addresses with a value
- 117.0M
- Median
- 504 persons/mi²
- Most values come
- from the address
- Latest collection
- Jan 1, 2020
Distribution
n = 116,951,062Share of addresses with a known value in each band. The middle 50% falls between 183 and 1,332 persons/mi², shaded darkest.
P10 means 10% of addresses have a value at or below this one, and P90 means 90% do. P25 and P75 bound the middle half. The median is the middle: half are below it, half above.
Coverage
Latest collection: 119,356,740 addressesCoverage by state
Percentage of addresses in each state with a value.
Coverage over time
98.6% 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 98.6% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.
Higher coverage than 82% 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.
Contribution ledger
1 ingestion
1 authority contributed since Jan 2020.
| Observed | Ingested | Count | ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-01 | 2026-04-09 | 119,016,289 | dd311395… |
Technical details
- API name
- housing_density
- Category
- fig/demography
- Type · unit
- Integer · persons/mi²
- Statistical type
- ordinal
- Allowed values
- null
- Derivations
- null
- Directionality
- null
- Deprecation
- false
In a payload
{
"attributes": {
"housing_density": 504
}
}