📍 US Census Geocoder Scraper

🚀 Geocode US addresses for free in seconds. Forward-geocode addresses to latitude / longitude or reverse-geocode coordinates back to a matching street address using the official US Census Bureau geocoder. Optional enrichment with census tract, block, and county FIPS codes. No API key, no per-request fees, no rate-limit surprises.

The US Census Geocoder Scraper wraps the official US Census Bureau geocoder, a fully public address-matching service maintained by the federal government. Each match returns the canonical street address, latitude, longitude, TIGER/Line edge ID, address range, city, state, ZIP, county name and FIPS, state FIPS, and optionally the census tract, block, and block GEOID for downstream demographic joins.

The geocoder covers every US street address in the TIGER/Line address-range database, including residential, commercial, and rural-route addresses across all 50 states, DC, and US territories. Use it to bootstrap a lead-enrichment pipeline, append lat/lng to a CRM export, build a "find my representative" map, or attach demographic context to any address list. This Actor returns clean CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML in under five minutes.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Real-estate platforms, civic-tech developers, marketing teams, US-focused logistics, lead-enrichment SaaS, public-health researchers	Address normalization, CRM enrichment, district mapping, demographic appending, route-planning prep, free geocoding for US addresses

📋 What the US Census Geocoder Scraper does

Two geocoding modes in a single Actor:

• ➡️ Forward (Address → Coordinates). Resolve one-line addresses to latitude / longitude with the canonical matched-address string.
• ⬅️ Reverse (Coordinates → Address). Resolve a lat / lng pair to the closest matching TIGER/Line street segment and address range.

Optional Census enrichment appends tract, block, block GEOID, state FIPS, and county FIPS, so each match can immediately join the American Community Survey, Decennial Census, or any tract-keyed federal dataset.

Each record includes the original input query, the canonical matched address, lat/lng, TIGER/Line ID, side of street, from/to address range, street name, suffix, city, state, ZIP, county, FIPS codes, and (when enabled) tract / block / GEOID and the full geographies object.

💡 Why it matters: the US Census geocoder is one of the few free, no-key, no-quota geocoders covering every US address. Commercial alternatives charge per lookup. Building your own pipeline around the underlying TIGER service means handling batch endpoints, retry logic, and FIPS parsing by hand. This Actor skips all of that.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: block, censusBlockGeoid, city, countyFips, countyName, fromAddress, geographies, inputQuery, latitude, longitude, matchedAddress, mode, scrapedAt, side, state, stateFips, streetName, suffixType, tigerLineId, toAddress, tract, zip. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the US Census Geocoder Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick a mode (address or coordinates), list inputs, optionally enable census enrichment.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the US Census Bureau or the US Department of Commerce. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available US Census geocoder results are collected.

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