Nearest airport
Identifies the FAA / IATA code of the airport closest to the surrounding postcode (any size, including general-aviation fields). Known or imputed for 31,079 postcodes — 91.1% of the postcodes Faraday knows.
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At a glance
- Coverage today
- 91.1%
- Typical coverage
- 91.1%
- Postcodes with a value
- 31.1K
- Share in largest category
- 0.093%
- Most values come
- from the area
- Latest collection
- May 13, 2026
How the categories split
n = 31,079Share of postcodes in each category.
No single value is common: at least 99 distinct values, the largest holds 0.093% of postcodes with a value, and the 20 largest together hold 0.9%.
Show the 20 most common
Every category
99+ categoriesThe 20 most common are listed above. Search here for any other. This list holds the 100 most common; rarer values are not named.
- 6N50.093%29 postcodes
- 6NY50.074%23 postcodes
- 6N60.068%21 postcodes
- NJ540.068%21 postcodes
- JY290.051%16 postcodes
- 7NY70.051%16 postcodes
- 3NY20.045%14 postcodes
- JRB0.042%13 postcodes
- 4NY90.039%12 postcodes
- US-64130.039%12 postcodes
- 07NJ0.035%11 postcodes
- 4MA80.035%11 postcodes
- KRHV0.035%11 postcodes
- RI150.035%11 postcodes
- CA260.035%11 postcodes
- NK390.035%11 postcodes
- NK300.032%10 postcodes
- 93NY0.032%10 postcodes
- 6N70.032%10 postcodes
- 6NK50.032%10 postcodes
- CA630.032%10 postcodes
- 9VA20.032%10 postcodes
- US-51970.032%10 postcodes
- 96NY0.032%10 postcodes
- IL700.029%9 postcodes
- 2PS90.029%9 postcodes
- 72VA0.029%9 postcodes
- 81CL0.029%9 postcodes
- NY470.029%9 postcodes
- KFRG0.026%8 postcodes
- 8CA90.026%8 postcodes
- 15MI0.026%8 postcodes
- 2NK80.026%8 postcodes
- 39NY0.026%8 postcodes
- JRA0.026%8 postcodes
- 10PN0.026%8 postcodes
- KVLL0.026%8 postcodes
- IL770.026%8 postcodes
- 2WI30.026%8 postcodes
- US-39050.023%7 postcodes
Coverage
Latest collection: 41,117 postcodesCoverage 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 91.1% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.
Higher coverage than 28% 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.
Contribution ledger
1 ingestion1 authority contributed since May 2026.
| Observed | Ingested | Count | ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| 41,117 | d32d05d1-66af-4d5c-bb27-1784ffd9d1a4 |
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 Nearest airport back in real time.
- Add
nearest_airportto a project. - Send an email, phone, or address to the project's append endpoint. The response carries Nearest airport 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":{"nearest_airport":"6N5"}}Technical details
- API name
- nearest_airport
- Category
- fig/reachability
- Type · unit
- Text
- Statistical type
- nominal
- Allowed values
- null
- Derivations
- null
- How values combine
- Read from a single source field.
- Directionality
- null
- Deprecation
- false