# Housing density

Estimates the number of housing units per square mile in the immediate area around an individual's address.

- API name: `housing_density`
- Category: Demography
- Type · unit: Integer · persons/mi²
- Addresses with a value: 117.1M (97.7%)
- Latest collection: Jan 1, 2020
- How values combine: Read from a single source field.
- Middle 50% of values: 100 to 1,530 persons/mi²

## Links

- [Catalog page](/catalog/v2/housing_density)
- [Published statistics (JSON)](https://static.faraday.ai/figv2/housing_density.json)
- [API reference](/docs/reference/getattribute)