What you can ask
- “What does Census Geocoder have for the area or asset I'm working on?”
- “Pull the most recent Census Geocoder records and put them in a table.”
- “What does Census Geocoder cover, and how fresh is the data?”
About this source
US Census Bureau Geocoder - address geocoding, reverse geocoding, and geographic identifiers. Convert addresses to coordinates, and get Census geography (state, county, tract, block, metro area FIPS and names) at a coordinate. There is no street-address reverse lookup. CRITICAL USAGE RULES: 1. No authentication required 2. US addresses only 3. Use geocodeAddress() for free-form address to coordinates 4. Use reverseGeocode() or getGeography() for coordinates to state/county/tract
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› Methods (5)
Technical detail for developers: parameters, pagination, units, and freshness per method.
geocodeAddress
unknownGeocode a US street address into coordinates and the matched address.
geocodeAddressComponents
unknownGeocode street, city, state, and ZIP components into geographic coordinates.
Required paramsstreet and zip or street and city and statereverseGeocode
unknownCensus geography (state, county, tract, block FIPS) at a US coordinate.
batchGeocode
unknownGeocode multiple street addresses in one batch request.
getGeography
readRetrieve the census geography associated with a coordinate.