Population female

Integer · count

Counts the number of female residents in the surrounding postcode. Known or imputed for 34,015 postcodes — 99.7% of the postcodes Faraday knows.

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Append to a file

At a glance

Coverage today
99.7%
Typical coverage
99.7%
Postcodes with a value
34.0K
Median
2,069 count
Most values come
from the area
Latest collection
Dec 31, 2024

Distribution

n = 34,015

Share of postcodes with a known value in each band. The middle 50% falls between 629 and 9,949 count, shaded darkest.

P10
251
P25
629
Median
2,069
P75
9,949
P90
19,116

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.

Median over time

2,586 count

2,521 count → 2,586 count across 4 collections, shaded between P25 and P75. Estimated from a 1% sample of postcodes.

Dec 2021Dec 2022Dec 2023Dec 2024

Coverage

Latest collection: 41,117 postcodes

Coverage by state

Percentage of postcodes in each state with a value.

Coverage over time

99.7% today

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

Dec 21Dec 22Dec 23Dec 24Jan 25Dec 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 — 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 99.7% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.

catalog min 11%max 100%

Higher coverage than 60% 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.

Dec 31, 2024
latest collection
21 months 17 days
since the latest collection
yearly
new collection cadence
Dec 21Dec 22Dec 23Dec 24

Change between collections

The share of postcodes whose value is different from the previous collection.

98.9%

of postcodes changed value between the two most recent collections — 6.2× the catalog median of 16.0%.

Went down 46.2%Unchanged 1.1%Went up 52.7%

Contribution ledger

4 ingestions

1 authority contributed since Dec 2021.

ObservedIngestedCountID
41,117e2d21660-1ea6-430a-8bf9-33673e10fdd6
41,045263a35d2-5801-4741-b944-e98bac372850
41,0452a630c8a-310d-4609-85f0-6b111e297fd3
41,045bd04e3fc-186d-491b-8619-c4aa7f2f47a9

Related attributes

Attributes whose descriptions are closest to this one.

Use it in the API

Send an email, phone, or address. Get Population female back in real time.

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":{"population_female":2069}}

Technical details

API name
population_female
Category
fig/demography
Type · unit
Integer · count
Statistical type
ratio
Allowed values
null
Derivations
null
How values combine
Read from a single source field.
Directionality
Higher number means more female residents in the surrounding postcode.
Deprecation
false