Sewer system type
Wastewater disposal system serving the parcel (e.g., municipal sewer, septic tank, cesspool, none). Known or imputed for 18.0 million addresses — 15.2% of the addresses Faraday knows.
At a glance
- Coverage today
- 15.2%
- Typical coverage
- 15.1%
- Addresses with a value
- 18.0M
- Share in largest category
- 62.3%
- Most values come
- from the address
- Latest collection
- May 1, 2026
How the categories split
n = 17,977,572Share of addresses in each category. 7 categories, with 62.3% in the largest.
Category shares over time
Public62.3% (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
15.2% 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 15.2% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.
Higher coverage than 31% 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 — 365.9× 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
- sewer_system_type
- Category
- fig/property
- Type · unit
- Text
- Statistical type
- nominal
- Allowed values
- null
- Derivations
- Unspecified
- Directionality
- null
- Deprecation
- false
In a payload
{
"attributes": {
"sewer_system_type": "Public"
}
}