Find the census tract for any U.S. address

Type an address to get its 11-digit census tract number, along with that tract's five-year home-value forecast. No account needed.

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How to read a census tract number

A census tract number, also called a GEOID, is 11 digits long: two for the state, three for the county and six for the tract itself, read with a decimal point before the final two.

So 48453001308 is census tract 13.08 in Travis County, Texas: the East Cesar Chavez tract in Austin that the lookup above starts on.

Why the tract matters more than the ZIP code

A census tract holds a few thousand people, which is small enough to tell one neighborhood from the next. ZIP code and county averages blend neighborhoods together, and neighbors can move in opposite directions. In South Austin, two census tracts that share a border have median home values of $1,096,800 and $385,600, 2.8 times apart. In 2014 the gap was 1.7 times.

Verus-AI forecasts home values five years out for about 85,000 U.S. census tracts, so you see the tract an address is actually in, not the average around it.

Census tract questions

What is a census tract?

A small, stable area drawn for the U.S. census. Most census tracts hold between 1,200 and 8,000 people, about 4,000 on average, and their boundaries usually follow visible features such as streets, rivers and rail lines.

How do I find the census tract for an address?

Type the address into the lookup at the top of this page. You get the 11-digit census tract number, along with that tract's five-year home-value forecast.

What do the 11 digits of a census tract number mean?

The first two digits are the state, the next three the county, and the last six the tract, read with a decimal point before the final two. In 48453001308, 48 is Texas, 453 is Travis County and 001308 is tract 13.08.

Why do census tracts matter in real estate?

They are small enough to tell one neighborhood from the next. ZIP code and county averages blend together neighborhoods that can be moving in opposite directions; the tract shows the area an address is actually in.

Do census tract numbers change?

They can. Tracts are reviewed after each census: one that has grown a lot is split into new tracts, and ones that have shrunk can be merged, so an address can sit in a differently numbered tract a decade later.

Does the lookup work outside the United States?

No. Verus-AI covers U.S. census tracts only.

Every tract, on one map

Members see home values, household income, rent and the five-year forecast for every census tract in the country, side by side.