Metro id

metro_idGeographyText

Census Bureau identifier for the Metropolitan Statistical Area containing the individual's address. Known or imputed for 100.5 million addresses — 84.7% of the addresses Faraday knows.

At a glance

Coverage today
84.7%
Typical coverage
84.1%
Addresses with a value
100.5M
Share in largest category
6.3%
Most values come
from the address
Latest collection
Jan 1, 2020

How the categories split

n = 100,504,401

Share of addresses in each category. 99+ categories, of which the 20 largest are shown, with 6.3% in the largest.

35620
6.3%
31080
3.7%
16980
3.2%
19100
2.6%
26420
2.3%
33100
2.2%
37980
2.2%
47900
2.1%
12060
2.1%
14460
1.8%
19820
1.7%
38060
1.6%
41860
1.5%
33460
1.3%
42660
1.3%
45300
1.3%
40140
1.3%
19740
1.1%
41180
1.1%
16740
1.1%
All other values
58.2%
Distinct categories
99+
Share in largest category
6.3%
Share in top 3 categories
13.2%

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.

  • 356206.28%6,309,670 addresses
  • 310803.69%3,711,839 addresses
  • 169803.18%3,199,750 addresses
  • 191002.63%2,641,236 addresses
  • 264202.28%2,295,922 addresses
  • 331002.20%2,208,738 addresses
  • 379802.19%2,199,009 addresses
  • 479002.14%2,149,067 addresses
  • 120602.10%2,109,415 addresses
  • 144601.77%1,782,984 addresses
  • 198201.74%1,745,731 addresses
  • 380601.64%1,649,157 addresses
  • 418601.46%1,469,512 addresses
  • 334601.34%1,350,041 addresses
  • 426601.34%1,345,154 addresses
  • 453001.31%1,321,381 addresses
  • 401401.25%1,257,722 addresses
  • 197401.15%1,153,056 addresses
  • 411801.09%1,092,039 addresses
  • 167401.06%1,065,184 addresses
  • 125801.02%1,027,584 addresses
  • 367401.01%1,012,921 addresses
  • 417400.99%991,629 addresses
  • 383000.94%942,247 addresses
  • 417000.89%894,807 addresses
  • 389000.88%885,065 addresses
  • 171400.88%882,948 addresses
  • 174600.87%874,414 addresses
  • 181400.84%845,233 addresses
  • 298200.83%831,449 addresses
  • 124200.82%827,832 addresses
  • 281400.80%800,108 addresses
  • 269000.79%795,037 addresses
  • 349800.76%766,520 addresses
  • 409000.75%748,796 addresses
  • 272600.66%666,170 addresses
  • 472600.64%646,387 addresses
  • 393000.62%625,881 addresses
  • 333400.61%616,808 addresses
  • 395800.57%573,229 addresses

Coverage

Latest collection: 119,389,496 addresses

Coverage by state

Percentage of addresses in each state with a value.

Coverage over time

84.7% today

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

Jan 20Mar 24Dec 24Mar 25Jun 25Oct 25May 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 — 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 84.7% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.

catalog min 0%max 100%

Higher coverage than 81% 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.

Jan 1, 2020
latest collection
81 months 2 days
since the latest collection
Jan 20

Contribution ledger

1 ingestion

1 authority contributed since Jan 2020.

ObservedIngestedCountID
2020-01-012026-04-20119,048,853e84435bf…

Technical details

API name
metro_id
Category
fig/geography
Type · unit
Text
Statistical type
categorical
Allowed values
null
Derivations
Unspecified
Directionality
null
Deprecation
false

In a payload

{
  "attributes": {
    "metro_id": "35620"
  }
}