Roof covering material

roof_covering_materialPropertyText

Primary roof-covering material on the building (e.g., asphalt shingle, metal, wood, tile). Known or imputed for 45.0 million addresses — 37.9% of the addresses Faraday knows.

At a glance

Coverage today
37.9%
Typical coverage
38.1%
Addresses with a value
45.0M
Share in largest category
30.5%
Most values come
from the address
Latest collection
May 1, 2026

How the categories split

n = 44,988,199

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

Composition shingle
30.5%
Asphalt shingle
27.5%
Asphalt
7.2%
Composition
6.6%
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
4.9%
Distinct categories
99+
Share in largest category
30.5%
Share in top 3 categories
65.2%

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 shingle30.54%13,737,766 addresses
  • Asphalt shingle27.50%12,372,466 addresses
  • Asphalt7.21%3,244,385 addresses
  • Composition6.64%2,985,889 addresses
  • Shingle5.14%2,311,997 addresses
  • Concrete tile3.80%1,708,691 addresses
  • Asphalt and composition shingle3.51%1,577,061 addresses
  • Metal1.50%676,638 addresses
  • Wood shake and shingle1.49%672,335 addresses
  • Tile1.17%528,452 addresses
  • Built up1.11%499,891 addresses
  • Slate and tile0.88%395,529 addresses
  • Fiberglass0.85%384,210 addresses
  • Bahama and ceramic tile and blt-up tg0.64%289,494 addresses
  • Tar & gravel0.58%259,959 addresses
  • Asphalt and composition0.55%249,052 addresses
  • Composition roll0.53%238,353 addresses
  • Prefinished metal0.52%235,639 addresses
  • Corrugated metal0.50%223,836 addresses
  • Slate and slag0.38%172,470 addresses
  • Clay and concrete tile0.38%170,306 addresses
  • Rock0.36%164,038 addresses
  • Enameled metal0.36%159,713 addresses
  • Wood shake0.30%135,637 addresses
  • Composition shingle and metal0.30%135,027 addresses
  • Asbestos shingle0.26%116,626 addresses
  • Metal sheeting0.24%106,179 addresses
  • Galvanized sheet metal0.23%103,253 addresses
  • Modular metal0.22%100,294 addresses
  • Shake0.22%98,514 addresses
  • Wood0.22%98,482 addresses
  • Cement tile0.20%88,450 addresses
  • Roll0.16%73,721 addresses
  • Built up composition0.14%64,847 addresses
  • Built up tar & gravel0.14%63,398 addresses
  • Rubber and elastomeric0.13%58,063 addresses
  • Clay tile0.12%54,275 addresses
  • Custom0.10%44,902 addresses
  • Built up rock0.09%38,617 addresses
  • Aluminum0.07%29,872 addresses

Category shares over time

Composition shingle30.5% (largest)

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

May 2025Jul 2025Oct 2025Dec 2025Feb 2026Apr 2026May 2026
Composition shingleAsphalt shingleAsphaltCompositionShingle

Coverage

Latest collection: 137,136,830 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 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 37.9% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.

catalog min 0%max 100%

Higher coverage than 58% 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
May 25Jul 25Oct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26

Change between collections

The share of addresses whose category changed.

0.3%

of addresses changed value between the two most recent collections — 46.4× steadier than the catalog median of 13.5%.

Contribution ledger

30 ingestions

2 authorities contributed since Jul 2023.

ObservedIngestedCountID
2026-05-012026-09-10266,506,942c5492806…
2026-05-012026-07-01125,639,012f9d55800…
2026-04-012026-07-01121,548,788178f88a6…
2026-03-012026-07-01264,096,9771181277b…
2026-03-012026-07-0172,154,489a1e715b0…

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.
Directionality
null
Deprecation
false

In a payload

{
  "attributes": {
    "roof_covering_material": "Composition shingle"
  }
}