Primary heating system

primary_heating_systemPropertyText

Primary heating equipment type for the building (e.g., furnace, heat pump, boiler). Known or imputed for 41.7 million addresses — 35.2% of the addresses Faraday knows.

At a glance

Coverage today
35.2%
Typical coverage
35.0%
Addresses with a value
41.7M
Share in largest category
44.0%
Most values come
from the address
Latest collection
May 1, 2026

How the categories split

n = 41,699,645

Share of addresses in each category. 13 categories, with 44.0% in the largest.

Forced Air
44.0%
Central
28.6%
Steam
7.4%
Heat pump
7.1%
Hot Water
6.8%
Baseboard
2.4%
Floor/Wall
1.3%
Electric
1.2%
Radiant
0.8%
Gravity
0.3%
Solar
0.1%
Stove
0.1%
Fireplace
0.0%
Distinct categories
13
Share in largest category
44.0%
Share in top 3 categories
79.9%

Category shares over time

Forced Air43.9% (largest)

The 5 largest categories, each followed across 12 collections. Estimated from a 1% sample of addresses.

Mar 2024Nov 2024Apr 2025Oct 2025Dec 2025May 2026
Forced AirCentralSteamHot WaterHeat pump

Coverage

Latest collection: 119,982,292 addresses

Coverage by state

Percentage of addresses in each state with a value.

Coverage over time

35.2% today

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

Jul 23Jun 24Jan 25Apr 25Jul 25Nov 25Feb 26May 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 35.2% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.

catalog min 0%max 100%

Higher coverage than 50% 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.

May 1, 2026
latest collection
5 months 2 days
since the latest collection
quarterly
new collection cadence
Mar 24Nov 24Apr 25Oct 25Dec 25Mar 26

Change between collections

The share of addresses whose category changed.

0.0%

of addresses changed value between the two most recent collections — 837.3× steadier than the catalog median of 13.5%.

Contribution ledger

13 ingestions

1 authority contributed since Jul 2023.

ObservedIngestedCountID
2026-05-012026-09-10266,506,942c5492806…
2026-03-012026-07-01264,096,9771181277b…
2026-02-012026-07-02264,777,400af53c569…
2025-12-012026-08-11268,508,09184d6a1c5…
2025-11-012026-08-11268,299,874a071c538…

Technical details

API name
primary_heating_system
Category
fig/property
Type · unit
Text
Statistical type
nominal
Allowed values
null
Derivations
Observed
— the attribute is directly observed.
Directionality
null
Deprecation
false

In a payload

{
  "attributes": {
    "primary_heating_system": "Forced Air"
  }
}