Property building structure type

property_building_structure_typePropertyText

Indicates the type of building or structure built on the property (e.g., Office, Barn). Known or imputed for 4.2 million addresses — 3.5% of the addresses Faraday knows.

At a glance

Coverage today
3.5%
Typical coverage
3.5%
Addresses with a value
4.2M
Share in largest category
58.8%
Most values come
from the address
Latest collection
May 1, 2026

How the categories split

n = 4,173,981

Share of addresses in each category. 99+ categories, of which the 20 largest are shown, with 58.8% in the largest.

RESIDENTIAL - Single family
58.8%
RESIDENTIAL - Residential
23.9%
RESIDENTIAL - Mobile home
3.1%
RESIDENTIAL - Townhouse
2.6%
AGRICULTURAL - Ranch
1.4%
MULTIFAMILY - Condo apartment
1.4%
MULTIFAMILY - Multi family condo
1.3%
RESIDENTIAL - Detached
1.0%
MULTIFAMILY - Garden
0.7%
RESIDENTIAL - Manufactured home
0.6%
RESIDENTIAL - Flat
0.6%
AGRICULTURAL - Building
0.5%
MULTIFAMILY - Duplex
0.4%
AGRICULTURAL - Storage building
0.4%
RESIDENTIAL - High-rise
0.3%
RESIDENTIAL - Mobile home double wide
0.3%
RESIDENTIAL - Single family manufactured
0.3%
MULTIFAMILY - Apartment
0.2%
RESIDENTIAL - Mobile home single wide
0.2%
COMMERCIAL - Commercial
0.2%
All other values
1.7%
Distinct categories
99+
Share in largest category
58.8%
Share in top 3 categories
85.8%

Every category

99+ categories

The chart above draws the 20 largest. Search here for one it does not. This list holds the 100 most common; rarer values are not named.

  • RESIDENTIAL - Single family58.80%2,454,301 addresses
  • RESIDENTIAL - Residential23.92%998,288 addresses
  • RESIDENTIAL - Mobile home3.11%129,618 addresses
  • RESIDENTIAL - Townhouse2.65%110,539 addresses
  • AGRICULTURAL - Ranch1.44%59,981 addresses
  • MULTIFAMILY - Condo apartment1.38%57,621 addresses
  • MULTIFAMILY - Multi family condo1.25%52,254 addresses
  • RESIDENTIAL - Detached1.01%42,208 addresses
  • MULTIFAMILY - Garden0.72%29,877 addresses
  • RESIDENTIAL - Manufactured home0.61%25,332 addresses
  • RESIDENTIAL - Flat0.57%23,828 addresses
  • AGRICULTURAL - Building0.50%20,722 addresses
  • MULTIFAMILY - Duplex0.39%16,380 addresses
  • AGRICULTURAL - Storage building0.38%15,919 addresses
  • RESIDENTIAL - High-rise0.34%14,017 addresses
  • RESIDENTIAL - Mobile home double wide0.29%12,133 addresses
  • RESIDENTIAL - Single family manufactured0.28%11,855 addresses
  • MULTIFAMILY - Apartment0.24%10,187 addresses
  • RESIDENTIAL - Mobile home single wide0.22%9,089 addresses
  • COMMERCIAL - Commercial0.22%9,036 addresses
  • RESIDENTIAL - Patio home0.15%6,181 addresses
  • AGRICULTURAL - House0.15%6,152 addresses
  • MULTIFAMILY - Duplex and triplex0.14%6,038 addresses
  • INDUSTRIAL - Warehouse0.13%5,435 addresses
  • AGRICULTURAL - Farm0.09%3,762 addresses
  • MULTIFAMILY - Triplex0.09%3,580 addresses
  • AGRICULTURAL - Shed0.08%3,287 addresses
  • MULTIFAMILY - Multi-plex0.07%3,126 addresses
  • COMMERCIAL - Garage0.06%2,343 addresses
  • INDUSTRIAL - Other0.06%2,339 addresses
  • MULTIFAMILY - Apartment garage0.05%2,266 addresses
  • MULTIFAMILY - Multi family0.05%2,037 addresses
  • COMMERCIAL - Office0.04%1,814 addresses
  • MULTIFAMILY - Condo townhouse0.04%1,742 addresses
  • INFRASTRUCTURE - Concrete paving0.04%1,594 addresses
  • COMMERCIAL - Lumber0.02%1,024 addresses
  • MIXED USE - Condo & single family residenc0.02%973 addresses
  • RESIDENTIAL - End row0.02%807 addresses
  • ENTERTAINMENT - Restaurant0.02%802 addresses
  • COMMERCIAL - Retail store0.02%781 addresses

Category shares over time

RESIDENTIAL - Single family58.6% (largest)

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

Feb 2025Apr 2025Jun 2025Dec 2025Feb 2026May 2026
RESIDENTIAL - Single familyRESIDENTIAL - ResidentialRESIDENTIAL - Mobile homeRESIDENTIAL - TownhouseAGRICULTURAL - Ranch

Coverage

Latest collection: 98,683,954 addresses

Coverage by state

Percentage of addresses in each state with a value.

Coverage over time

3.5% 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 3.5% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.

catalog min 0%max 100%

Higher coverage than 13% 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
monthly
new collection cadence
Feb 25Apr 25Jun 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26

Change between collections

The share of addresses whose category changed.

0.1%

of addresses changed value between the two most recent collections — 214.5× steadier than the catalog median of 13.5%.

Contribution ledger

17 ingestions

1 authority contributed since Jul 2023.

ObservedIngestedCountID
2026-05-012026-07-01125,639,012f9d55800…
2026-04-012026-07-01121,548,788178f88a6…
2026-03-012026-07-0172,154,489a1e715b0…
2026-02-012026-07-01121,865,620b70b01b3…
2026-01-012026-07-01120,035,0582786571a…

Technical details

API name
property_building_structure_type
Category
fig/property
Type · unit
Text
Statistical type
nominal
Allowed values
null
Derivations
null
Directionality
null
Deprecation
false

In a payload

{
  "attributes": {
    "property_building_structure_type": "RESIDENTIAL - Single family"
  }
}