Postcode

Text

Five-digit USPS ZIP code of the individual's mailing address. Known or imputed for 119.3 million addresses — 99.6% of the addresses Faraday knows.

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At a glance

Coverage today
99.6%
Typical coverage
99.5%
Addresses with a value
119.3M
Share in largest category
0.034%
Most values come
from the address
Latest collection
Jan 1, 2020

How the categories split

n = 119,769,134

Share of addresses in each category.

No single value is common: at least 99 distinct values, the largest holds 0.034% of addresses with a value, and the 20 largest together hold 0.6%.

Show the 20 most common
77433
0.034%
77494
0.034%
77449
0.033%
78660
0.033%
78641
0.032%
34787
0.032%
78130
0.032%
73099
0.030%
10025
0.029%
79936
0.028%
77573
0.028%
11226
0.028%
78245
0.028%
28269
0.028%
37013
0.027%
77084
0.027%
27587
0.027%
95747
0.026%
37042
0.026%
75126
0.026%
Distinct categories
99+
Share in largest category
0.034%
Share in top 3 categories
0.1%

Every category

99+ categories

The 20 most common are listed above. Search here for any other. This list holds the 100 most common; rarer values are not named.

  • 774330.034%41,275 addresses
  • 774940.034%40,983 addresses
  • 774490.033%39,337 addresses
  • 786600.033%39,120 addresses
  • 786410.032%38,587 addresses
  • 347870.032%38,047 addresses
  • 781300.032%37,839 addresses
  • 730990.030%36,188 addresses
  • 100250.029%35,047 addresses
  • 799360.028%33,307 addresses
  • 775730.028%33,125 addresses
  • 112260.028%33,122 addresses
  • 782450.028%33,043 addresses
  • 282690.028%32,943 addresses
  • 370130.027%31,925 addresses
  • 770840.027%31,915 addresses
  • 275870.027%31,768 addresses
  • 957470.026%31,466 addresses
  • 370420.026%31,081 addresses
  • 751260.026%30,954 addresses
  • 349530.026%30,838 addresses
  • 801340.025%30,478 addresses
  • 606180.025%30,170 addresses
  • 774290.025%30,001 addresses
  • 782530.025%29,778 addresses
  • 750710.025%29,679 addresses
  • 774590.025%29,666 addresses
  • 775840.025%29,552 addresses
  • 280270.025%29,497 addresses
  • 750520.025%29,434 addresses
  • 774790.024%28,921 addresses
  • 633760.024%28,862 addresses
  • 782540.024%28,724 addresses
  • 923360.024%28,691 addresses
  • 786130.024%28,495 addresses
  • 282770.024%28,446 addresses
  • 750350.024%28,378 addresses
  • 322180.024%28,327 addresses
  • 300400.024%28,253 addresses
  • 276100.024%28,152 addresses

Coverage

Latest collection: 119,389,496 addresses

Coverage by state

Percentage of addresses in each state with a value.

Coverage over time

99.6% today

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

Jan 20Jun 24Feb 25Jun 25Nov 25Mar 26Oct 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 99.6% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.

catalog min 0%max 100%

Higher coverage than 99% 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 14 days
since the latest collection
Jan 20

Contribution ledger

2 ingestions

1 authority contributed since Jan 2020.

ObservedIngestedCountID
119,048,853e84435bf-fdae-464b-ad1b-45a5aca06bc2
119,016,289dd311395-716d-40ea-98f2-81aeadd883f8

Related attributes

Attributes whose descriptions are closest to this one.

Use it in the API

Send an email, phone, or address. Get Postcode 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":{"postcode":"77433"}}

Technical details

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