Property use type
Classifies how a property is used. It does not describe the building’s physical structure. Known or imputed for 87.7 million addresses — 73.9% of the addresses Faraday knows.
At a glance
- Coverage today
- 73.9%
- Typical coverage
- 73.1%
- Addresses with a value
- 87.7M
- Share in largest category
- 88.1%
- Most values come
- from the address
- Latest collection
- May 1, 2026
How the categories split
n = 87,689,328Share of addresses in each category. 24 categories, of which the 20 largest are shown, with 88.1% in the largest.
Every category
24 categoriesThe chart above draws the 20 largest. Search here for one it does not.
- RESIDENTIAL - Single family residence88.10%77,250,482 addresses
- RESIDENTIAL - Condominium6.00%5,258,744 addresses
- COMMERCIAL - Duplex1.97%1,724,715 addresses
- AGRICULTURAL - Agricultural1.66%1,455,836 addresses
- VACANT - Vacant0.92%808,781 addresses
- COMMERCIAL - Apartment0.54%469,210 addresses
- COMMERCIAL - Commercial0.37%326,833 addresses
- EXEMPT - Exempt0.10%85,880 addresses
- COMMERCIAL - Retail0.08%70,657 addresses
- COMMERCIAL - Office building0.05%44,187 addresses
- COMMERCIAL - Warehouse0.04%37,787 addresses
- COMMERCIAL - Service0.04%34,099 addresses
- INDUSTRIAL - Industrial0.03%22,661 addresses
- MISC - Miscellaneous0.03%22,126 addresses
- INSTITUTIONAL - Amusement-recreation0.02%20,090 addresses
- COMMERCIAL - Hotel, motel0.01%11,930 addresses
- INSTITUTIONAL - Parking0.01%11,429 addresses
- COMMERCIAL - Commercial condominium0.01%8,503 addresses
- INDUSTRIAL - Industrial light0.01%8,326 addresses
- INSTITUTIONAL - Hospital0.01%6,248 addresses
- INDUSTRIAL - Utilities0.01%5,134 addresses
- COMMERCIAL - Financial institution0.00%2,630 addresses
- INDUSTRIAL - Industrial heavy0.00%1,871 addresses
- INDUSTRIAL - Transport0.00%1,169 addresses
Category shares over time
RESIDENTIAL - Single family residence88.1% (largest)The 5 largest categories, each followed across 12 collections. Estimated from a 1% sample of addresses.
Coverage
Latest collection: 98,683,954 addressesCoverage by state
Percentage of addresses in each state with a value.
Coverage over time
73.9% todayShare of addresses holding a value at each monthly snapshot. A value carries forward for one year.
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 73.9% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.
Higher coverage than 78% 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.
Change between collections
The share of addresses whose category changed.
of addresses changed value between the two most recent collections — 41.4× steadier than the catalog median of 13.5%.
Contribution ledger
17 ingestions
1 authority contributed since Jul 2023.
| Observed | Ingested | Count | ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-01 | 2026-07-01 | 125,639,012 | f9d55800… |
| 2026-04-01 | 2026-07-01 | 121,548,788 | 178f88a6… |
| 2026-03-01 | 2026-07-01 | 72,154,489 | a1e715b0… |
| 2026-02-01 | 2026-07-01 | 121,865,620 | b70b01b3… |
| 2026-01-01 | 2026-07-01 | 120,035,058 | 2786571a… |
Technical details
- API name
- property_use_type
- Category
- fig/property
- Type · unit
- Text
- Statistical type
- nominal
- Allowed values
- null
- Derivations
- null
- Directionality
- null
- Deprecation
- false
In a payload
{
"attributes": {
"property_use_type": "RESIDENTIAL - Single family residence"
}
}