State

stateGeographyText

Two-letter USPS state or territory abbreviation for the individual's mailing address. Known or imputed for 117.0 million addresses — 98.6% of the addresses Faraday knows.

At a glance

Coverage today
98.6%
Typical coverage
98.0%
Addresses with a value
117.0M
Share in largest category
9.7%
Most values come
from the address
Latest collection
Jan 1, 2020

How the categories split

n = 116,978,014

Share of addresses in each category. 51 categories, of which the 20 largest are shown, with 9.7% in the largest.

CA
9.7%
TX
8.3%
FL
7.5%
NY
5.5%
OH
4.1%
PA
4.1%
IL
3.7%
NC
3.7%
MI
3.5%
GA
3.2%
VA
2.7%
NJ
2.6%
TN
2.3%
WA
2.2%
MA
2.2%
IN
2.1%
AZ
2.0%
MO
2.0%
WI
2.0%
CO
1.9%
All other values
24.9%
Distinct categories
51
Share in largest category
9.7%
Share in top 3 categories
25.5%

Every category

51 categories

The chart above draws the 20 largest. Search here for one it does not.

  • CA9.71%11,358,012 addresses
  • TX8.29%9,696,894 addresses
  • FL7.48%8,753,932 addresses
  • NY5.55%6,486,779 addresses
  • OH4.08%4,770,392 addresses
  • PA4.07%4,759,803 addresses
  • IL3.74%4,369,279 addresses
  • NC3.66%4,285,859 addresses
  • MI3.45%4,039,691 addresses
  • GA3.19%3,733,664 addresses
  • VA2.65%3,102,219 addresses
  • NJ2.60%3,039,501 addresses
  • TN2.25%2,632,892 addresses
  • WA2.20%2,577,312 addresses
  • MA2.19%2,558,649 addresses
  • IN2.14%2,505,503 addresses
  • AZ2.04%2,391,304 addresses
  • MO2.00%2,334,307 addresses
  • WI1.98%2,311,225 addresses
  • CO1.88%2,195,890 addresses
  • MD1.84%2,153,879 addresses
  • MN1.79%2,092,045 addresses
  • SC1.75%2,052,505 addresses
  • AL1.71%2,001,959 addresses
  • LA1.50%1,751,923 addresses
  • KY1.43%1,677,073 addresses
  • OR1.27%1,485,460 addresses
  • OK1.27%1,485,199 addresses
  • CT1.15%1,343,751 addresses
  • IA1.02%1,189,666 addresses
  • AR1.01%1,179,051 addresses
  • NV0.98%1,142,929 addresses
  • MS0.88%1,024,189 addresses
  • UT0.83%973,423 addresses
  • KS0.82%962,483 addresses
  • NE0.59%693,355 addresses
  • NM0.55%641,368 addresses
  • WV0.54%626,477 addresses
  • ID0.53%616,262 addresses
  • ME0.47%549,213 addresses

Coverage

Latest collection: 119,389,496 addresses

Coverage by state

Percentage of addresses in each state with a value.

Coverage over time

98.6% today

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

Jan 20Mar 24Dec 24Mar 25Jun 25Oct 25May 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 98.6% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.

catalog min 0%max 100%

Higher coverage than 83% 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.

Jan 1, 2020
latest collection
81 months 2 days
since the latest collection
Jan 20

Contribution ledger

2 ingestions

1 authority contributed since Jan 2020.

ObservedIngestedCountID
2020-01-012026-04-20119,048,853e84435bf…
2020-01-012026-04-09119,016,289dd311395…

Technical details

API name
state
Category
fig/geography
Type · unit
Text
Statistical type
categorical
Allowed values
null
Derivations
Unspecified
Directionality
null
Deprecation
false

In a payload

{
  "attributes": {
    "state": "CA"
  }
}