Property water service type

property_water_service_typePropertyText

Source of potable water serving the parcel (e.g., municipal, well, cistern, none). Known or imputed for 17.7 million addresses — 15.0% of the addresses Faraday knows.

At a glance

Coverage today
15.0%
Typical coverage
14.8%
Addresses with a value
17.7M
Share in largest category
72.6%
Most values come
from the address
Latest collection
May 1, 2026

How the categories split

n = 17,732,767

Share of addresses in each category. 7 categories, with 72.6% in the largest.

Public
72.6%
Well
11.0%
Commercial
8.8%
Private
7.4%
Public well
0.2%
Spring and creek
0.0%
Cistern
0.0%
Distinct categories
7
Share in largest category
72.6%
Share in top 3 categories
92.4%

Category shares over time

Public72.4% (largest)

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

Feb 2025Apr 2025Jun 2025Dec 2025Feb 2026May 2026
PublicWellCommercialPrivatePublic well

Coverage

Latest collection: 98,683,954 addresses

Coverage by state

Percentage of addresses in each state with a value.

Coverage over time

15.0% 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 15.0% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.

catalog min 0%max 100%

Higher coverage than 30% 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.

0.0%

of addresses changed value between the two most recent collections — 951.6× 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_water_service_type
Category
fig/property
Type · unit
Text
Statistical type
nominal
Allowed values
null
Derivations
Unspecified
Directionality
null
Deprecation
false

In a payload

{
  "attributes": {
    "property_water_service_type": "Public"
  }
}