Roof covering material

Text

Primary roof-covering material on the building (e.g., asphalt shingle, metal, wood, tile). Known or imputed for 45.4 million addresses — 37.9% of the addresses Faraday knows.

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At a glance

Coverage today
37.9%
Typical coverage
37.9%
Addresses with a value
45.4M
Share in largest category
30.5%
Most values come
from the address
Latest collection
Oct 1, 2026

How the categories split

n = 45,366,566

Share of addresses in each category. 99+ categories, of which the 20 largest are shown, with 30.5% in the largest.

since previous collection
Composition shingle
30.5%−0.1 pts
Asphalt shingle
27.6%+0.1 pts
Asphalt
7.2%
Composition
6.7%
Shingle
5.1%
Concrete tile
3.8%
Asphalt and composition shingle
3.5%
Metal
1.5%
Wood shake and shingle
1.5%
Tile
1.2%
Built up
1.1%
Slate and tile
0.9%
Fiberglass
0.9%
Bahama and ceramic tile and blt-up tg
0.6%
Tar & gravel
0.6%
Asphalt and composition
0.6%
Composition roll
0.5%
Prefinished metal
0.5%
Corrugated metal
0.5%
Slate and slag
0.4%
All other values
5.0%
Distinct categories
99+
Share in largest category
30.5%
Share in top 3 categories
65.3%

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.

  • Composition shingle30.5%13,814,682 addresses
  • Asphalt shingle27.6%12,516,717 addresses
  • Asphalt7.2%3,284,963 addresses
  • Composition6.7%3,020,338 addresses
  • Shingle5.1%2,317,572 addresses
  • Concrete tile3.8%1,719,598 addresses
  • Asphalt and composition shingle3.5%1,585,648 addresses
  • Metal1.5%691,447 addresses
  • Wood shake and shingle1.5%669,736 addresses
  • Tile1.2%524,661 addresses
  • Built up1.1%505,205 addresses
  • Slate and tile0.9%394,832 addresses
  • Fiberglass0.9%387,486 addresses
  • Bahama and ceramic tile and blt-up tg0.6%290,933 addresses
  • Tar & gravel0.6%264,695 addresses
  • Asphalt and composition0.6%251,765 addresses
  • Composition roll0.5%240,115 addresses
  • Prefinished metal0.5%237,853 addresses
  • Corrugated metal0.5%226,405 addresses
  • Slate and slag0.4%173,664 addresses
  • Clay and concrete tile0.4%170,805 addresses
  • Rock0.4%165,057 addresses
  • Enameled metal0.4%161,359 addresses
  • Composition shingle and metal0.3%135,922 addresses
  • Wood shake0.3%134,713 addresses
  • Asbestos shingle0.3%116,024 addresses
  • Metal sheeting0.2%107,255 addresses
  • Galvanized sheet metal0.2%105,289 addresses
  • Modular metal0.2%101,271 addresses
  • Wood0.2%98,753 addresses
  • Shake0.2%96,757 addresses
  • Cement tile0.2%88,667 addresses
  • Roll0.2%75,179 addresses
  • Built up composition0.1%65,599 addresses
  • Built up tar & gravel0.1%63,959 addresses
  • Rubber and elastomeric0.1%60,848 addresses
  • Clay tile0.1%54,643 addresses
  • Custom0.099%44,965 addresses
  • Built up rock0.086%39,133 addresses
  • Aluminum0.066%30,094 addresses

Category shares over time

Composition shingle30.4% (largest)

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

Oct 2025Dec 2025Feb 2026Apr 2026Jun 2026Sep 2026Oct 2026
Composition shingleAsphalt shingleAsphaltCompositionShingle

Coverage

Latest collection: 103,037,911 addresses

Coverage by state

Percentage of addresses in each state with a value.

Coverage over time

37.9% today

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

Jul 23Nov 24Mar 25Jul 25Dec 25Apr 26Oct 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 37.9% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.

catalog min 0%max 100%

Higher coverage than 57% 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.

Oct 1, 2026
latest collection
15 days
since the latest collection
monthly
new collection cadence
Oct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 26

Change between collections

The share of addresses whose category changed.

0.2%

of addresses changed value between the two most recent collections — 99.8× steadier than the catalog median of 16.0%.

Contribution ledger

34 ingestions

2 authorities contributed since Jul 2023.

ObservedIngestedCountID
136,557,522eb9d843a-e90f-4c0f-a6a1-6407824973f5
135,716,06637a05688-5576-4b35-a37f-ed31a1298842
134,593,45962d317f2-489c-456e-b464-9cfab59f2deb
263,433,64974d6c94c-8e2b-48fe-a704-50c99ad3cdde
266,506,942c5492806-a892-460e-aba1-ee78ffb29c5b

Related attributes

Attributes whose descriptions are closest to this one.

Neighbors found Oct 2026.

Use it in the API

Send an email, phone, or address. Get Roof covering material back in real time.

  1. Add roof_covering_material to a project.
  2. Send an email, phone, or address to the project's append endpoint. The response carries Roof covering material for the matched person.
curl -X POST 'https://api.pro.faraday.ai/v1/projects/YOUR_PROJECT_ID/append' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
      "email": "jane.doe@example.com"
    }'
→ {"attributes":{"roof_covering_material":"Composition shingle"}}
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Technical details

API name
roof_covering_material
Category
fig/property
Type · unit
Text
Statistical type
nominal
Allowed values
null
Derivations
Observed
— the attribute is directly observed.
How values combine
Uses the first available of up to 2 source fields, in priority order.
Directionality
null
Deprecation
false