---
id: "fips64"
kind: "datatype"
status: "stable"
is_pii: false
categories: ["geo"]
country: ["US"]
langs: ["en"]
quality: 80
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/fips64"
---

# FIPS 6-4 numeric code (US counties) (`fips64`)

Identifier for US entities (mostly counties) per "Federal Information Processing Series" (FIPS 6-4), used for counties, Puerto Rico zona urbana, Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) and Combined Statistical Areas (CSA) in the United States.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Geographic identifiers (geo)
- Countries: United States (US)
- Languages: English (en)
- Classification: categorical

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
\d{5}
```

## Examples

- `24003` — Anne Arundel County
- `01001` — Autauga Country

## Mappings

- fta: `STATE_PROVINCE.COUNTY_FIPS_US`
- wikidata: `P882`

## Metacrafter rules

1 rules: 1 match the field name, 0 match values.

- `usfips64known` (field, `us/us_geo.yaml`)

## Supported by tools

- `fta`
- `greatexpectations`
- `metacrafter`
- `metacrafterpro`

## Sources

- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P882>

## Quality

Score 80/100. Missing: anchored regexp, negative example, translation.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/fips64.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/US/geo/fips64.yaml>