July 21, 2025
There has never been a greater need for high-quality, data-driven journalism—nor a greater squeeze on the budgets of news organizations. More and more journalists who don’t come from data backgrounds are learning how to work with data in their reporting. At Geocodio, we’d like to help accelerate that reporting and learning. For over a decade, Geocodio has helped thousands of journalists in the US…
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June 18, 2025
We've made several updates and additions to our state legislative district data append. You can now get state legislator information (such as names and contact information), and we've also updated our district names to reflect local conventions. To support these changes in a backwards-compatible way, we've released them under a new API version, v1.9. API users will need to update their API version…
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May 21, 2025
Today, we're excited to announce a significant enhancement to the American Community Survey (ACS) data appends in our spreadsheet uploader: Geography level selection for ACS data. In the past, all of our ACS appends returned only at the Census Block Group level. This new update provides you with the ability to select from a variety of additional geographic options and applies to all of our…
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May 16, 2025
Introducing API v1.8 with Fresh Census ACS Data Today, we're pleased to announce the release of Geocodio API v1.8, which brings you the latest Census American Community Survey (ACS) five-year data and expands the geographic flexibility of our ACS data appends. What's New in v1.8? 2023 Census ACS Data Now Available We've updated all of our Census ACS appends to use the most recent five-year survey…
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May 14, 2025
At Geocodio, we understand that security is not a one-time achievement but an ongoing commitment. That's why we are pleased to announce that Geocodio Enterprise has successfully completed its SOC 2 Type II audit for 2025, reaffirming our commitment to maintaining the high security requirements expected by our customers in healthcare, financial services, and other regulated industries. This most…
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May 07, 2025
Today, we're excited to announce two new features designed to make your geocoding workflow more efficient: Address Lines and "Geocodio" prefixed headers for spreadsheet results. Address Lines We understand that working with address components often requires extra steps to format addresses properly for your applications. That's why we're introducing address lines - a new way to access pre-formatted…
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April 30, 2025
Visualizing FFIEC Income Indicators Within our Geocodio Maps feature, customers can now access the new FFIEC Income Indicators layer: a collection of Census tract boundaries that are shaded based on their income level. The layer can be added as a standalone or on top of existing address markers or layers. These colorized Census tracts allow you to determine the income level of a specific location…
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April 07, 2025
Standardizing Messy Address Data in Chicago Injustice Watch, a nonprofit newsroom investigating the Cook County (Chicago) courts system, used Geocodio to clean up 2.3M messy, incomplete, and misspelled address records in their "Tenant Trap" investigation. Their investigation found that thousands of lower-income renters in Chicago are trapped in unsafe buildings. They wrote a behind-the-scenes…
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March 28, 2025
What's New? Our new FFIEC dataset has launched in beta and allows you to retrieve key datapoints from the FFIEC flat file. This resource was designed to assist financial institutions, lenders and other organizations that need to comply with fair lending regulations like Regulation C (HMDA), FHA and CRA. Currently, the data returned is for the 2024 FFIEC release, though we will update with 202…
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March 18, 2025
What's New? Enterprise Unlimited customers can now enable our Maps feature. Maps is an easy-to-use addition to your account dashboard that allows you to visualize the addresses or coordinates in your spreadsheets as markers on a map. You can style and customize these markers using different icons and colors, as well as add pop-up descriptors that activate on click. Maps are included with your…
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