Nearest airport distance
Indicates the distance in kilometers from the surrounding postcode center to the nearest airport (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
- Median
- 6.57 km
- Most values come
- from the area
- Latest collection
- May 13, 2026
Distribution
n = 31,008Share of postcodes with a known value in each band. The middle 50% falls between 3.39 and 12.29 km, shaded darkest.
P10 means 10% of postcodes 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: 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 91.3% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.
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.
Contribution ledger
1 ingestion
1 authority contributed since May 2026.
| Observed | Ingested | Count | ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-13 | 2026-06-22 | 41,117 | d32d05d1… |
Technical details
- API name
- nearest_airport_distance
- Category
- fig/reachability
- Type · unit
- Float · km
- Statistical type
- ratio
- Allowed values
- null
- Derivations
- null
- Directionality
- Higher number means farther from the nearest airport.
- Deprecation
- false
In a payload
{
"attributes": {
"nearest_airport_distance": 7
}
}