Nearest airport

nearest_airportReachabilityText

Identifies the FAA / IATA code of the airport closest to the surrounding postcode (any size, including general-aviation fields). Known or imputed for 31,008 postcodes — 91.3% of the postcodes Faraday knows.

At a glance

Coverage today
91.3%
Typical coverage
91.3%
Postcodes with a value
31.0K
Share in largest category
0.1%
Most values come
from the area
Latest collection
May 13, 2026

How the categories split

n = 31,008

Share of postcodes in each category. 99+ categories, of which the 20 largest are shown, with 0.1% in the largest.

6N5
0.1%
6NY5
0.1%
6N6
0.1%
NJ54
0.1%
JY29
0.1%
7NY7
0.1%
3NY2
0.0%
JRB
0.0%
4NY9
0.0%
US-6413
0.0%
07NJ
0.0%
4MA8
0.0%
KRHV
0.0%
RI15
0.0%
CA26
0.0%
NK39
0.0%
NK30
0.0%
93NY
0.0%
6N7
0.0%
6NK5
0.0%
All other values
99.1%
Distinct categories
99+
Share in largest category
0.1%
Share in top 3 categories
0.2%

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.

  • 6N50.09%29 postcodes
  • 6NY50.07%23 postcodes
  • 6N60.07%21 postcodes
  • NJ540.07%21 postcodes
  • JY290.05%16 postcodes
  • 7NY70.05%16 postcodes
  • 3NY20.05%14 postcodes
  • JRB0.04%13 postcodes
  • 4NY90.04%12 postcodes
  • US-64130.04%12 postcodes
  • 07NJ0.04%11 postcodes
  • 4MA80.04%11 postcodes
  • KRHV0.04%11 postcodes
  • RI150.04%11 postcodes
  • CA260.04%11 postcodes
  • NK390.04%11 postcodes
  • NK300.03%10 postcodes
  • 93NY0.03%10 postcodes
  • 6N70.03%10 postcodes
  • 6NK50.03%10 postcodes
  • CA630.03%10 postcodes
  • 9VA20.03%10 postcodes
  • US-51970.03%10 postcodes
  • 96NY0.03%10 postcodes
  • IL700.03%9 postcodes
  • 2PS90.03%9 postcodes
  • 72VA0.03%9 postcodes
  • 81CL0.03%9 postcodes
  • NY470.03%9 postcodes
  • KFRG0.03%8 postcodes
  • 8CA90.03%8 postcodes
  • 15MI0.03%8 postcodes
  • 39NY0.03%8 postcodes
  • 2NK80.03%8 postcodes
  • JRA0.03%8 postcodes
  • KVLL0.03%8 postcodes
  • 10PN0.03%8 postcodes
  • IL770.03%8 postcodes
  • 2WI30.03%8 postcodes
  • US-39050.02%7 postcodes

Coverage

Latest collection: 41,117 postcodes

Coverage by state

Percentage of postcodes in each state with a value.

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 — 0%
Not used for this attribute — no value is inherited this way.
From geography — 100%
Estimated from other people in their postcode or region.

Coverage, in context

Where 91.3% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.

catalog min 11%max 100%

Higher coverage than 26% of postcode-level attributes in the catalog

Freshness

How recently this was collected, and how often a new collection arrives. Each bar is the number of postcodes in that collection. Gaps are real — collection is periodic, not continuous.

May 13, 2026
latest collection
4 months 24 days
since the latest collection
May 26

Contribution ledger

1 ingestion

1 authority contributed since May 2026.

ObservedIngestedCountID
2026-05-132026-06-2241,117d32d05d1…

Technical details

API name
nearest_airport
Category
fig/reachability
Type · unit
Text
Statistical type
nominal
Allowed values
null
Derivations
null
Directionality
null
Deprecation
false

In a payload

{
  "attributes": {
    "nearest_airport": "6N5"
  }
}