Property legal ownership type

property_legal_ownership_typePropertyText

Indicates the legal ownership type for a property (e.g., Corporation, Estate, Irrevocable trust). Known or imputed for 16.1 million addresses — 13.6% of the addresses Faraday knows.

At a glance

Coverage today
13.6%
Typical coverage
13.1%
Addresses with a value
16.1M
Share in largest category
25.5%
Most values come
from the address
Latest collection
May 1, 2026

How the categories split

n = 16,118,196

Share of addresses in each category. 62 categories, of which the 20 largest are shown, with 25.5% in the largest.

JOINT - Joint tenants
25.5%
TRUST - Trust
17.6%
TRUST - Trustee
12.4%
TRUST - Revocable trust
9.0%
TRUST - Living trust
5.7%
JOINT - Tenants by entirety
5.7%
ESTATE - Life estate
5.4%
TRUST - Personal trust
3.1%
INDIVIDUAL - Separate estate and property
3.0%
JOINT - Community property
2.6%
INDIVIDUAL - Sole owner
2.0%
INDIVIDUAL - Survivor
1.5%
ESTATE - Estate
1.5%
JOINT - Tenants in common
1.2%
JOINT - Right of survivorship
1.0%
OTHER - Possessory tenant
0.4%
ESTATE - Life tenant
0.4%
TRUST - Irrevocable trust
0.3%
ESTATE - Heirs
0.3%
TRUST - Trust sale reference
0.2%
All other values
1.2%
Distinct categories
62
Share in largest category
25.5%
Share in top 3 categories
55.6%

Every category

62 categories

The chart above draws the 20 largest. Search here for one it does not.

  • JOINT - Joint tenants25.54%4,117,382 addresses
  • TRUST - Trust17.59%2,834,641 addresses
  • TRUST - Trustee12.45%2,006,123 addresses
  • TRUST - Revocable trust8.95%1,443,272 addresses
  • TRUST - Living trust5.73%923,653 addresses
  • JOINT - Tenants by entirety5.73%923,279 addresses
  • ESTATE - Life estate5.37%864,949 addresses
  • TRUST - Personal trust3.09%498,228 addresses
  • INDIVIDUAL - Separate estate and property2.97%477,982 addresses
  • JOINT - Community property2.60%419,785 addresses
  • INDIVIDUAL - Sole owner1.99%320,570 addresses
  • INDIVIDUAL - Survivor1.54%248,606 addresses
  • ESTATE - Estate1.52%244,324 addresses
  • JOINT - Tenants in common1.18%190,937 addresses
  • JOINT - Right of survivorship0.98%158,518 addresses
  • OTHER - Possessory tenant0.41%66,686 addresses
  • ESTATE - Life tenant0.37%59,378 addresses
  • TRUST - Irrevocable trust0.29%46,402 addresses
  • ESTATE - Heirs0.26%42,309 addresses
  • TRUST - Trust sale reference0.23%36,466 addresses
  • JOINT - Common property0.19%30,150 addresses
  • CORPORATE - Limited partnership0.17%28,149 addresses
  • CORPORATE - Corporation0.16%26,580 addresses
  • ESTATE - Simple estate0.16%25,750 addresses
  • OTHER - Care of0.16%25,378 addresses
  • JOINT - Undivided interest0.09%14,067 addresses
  • ESTATE - Remainderman0.05%7,750 addresses
  • INDIVIDUAL - Sole under agreement0.05%7,674 addresses
  • TRUST - In trust for0.03%5,163 addresses
  • TRUST - Corporate trust0.03%4,734 addresses
  • TRUST - Non-declared trust0.02%3,523 addresses
  • CORPORATE - Association0.01%1,968 addresses
  • OTHER - Other0.01%1,915 addresses
  • ESTATE - Personal representative0.01%1,371 addresses
  • OTHER - Care of tenant0.01%1,228 addresses
  • JOINT - Joint venture0.01%1,203 addresses
  • ESTATE - Guardian0.01%1,139 addresses
  • TRUST - Trustee(corporation)0.01%1,138 addresses
  • OTHER - Under interest0.01%970 addresses
  • ESTATE - Lifetime benefit0.00%710 addresses

Category shares over time

JOINT - Joint tenants25.6% (largest)

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

Feb 2025Apr 2025Jun 2025Dec 2025Feb 2026May 2026
JOINT - Joint tenantsTRUST - TrustTRUST - TrusteeTRUST - Revocable trustJOINT - Tenants by entirety

Coverage

Latest collection: 98,683,954 addresses

Coverage by state

Percentage of addresses in each state with a value.

Coverage over time

13.6% 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 13.6% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.

catalog min 0%max 100%

Higher coverage than 28% 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 3 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.

0.8%

of addresses changed value between the two most recent collections — 16.9× 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_legal_ownership_type
Category
fig/property
Type · unit
Text
Statistical type
nominal
Allowed values
null
Derivations
Unspecified
Directionality
null
Deprecation
false

In a payload

{
  "attributes": {
    "property_legal_ownership_type": "JOINT - Joint tenants"
  }
}