---
id: "us_census_lsad"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["geo", "government"]
country: ["US"]
langs: ["en"]
quality: 68
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/us_census_lsad"
---

# US Census legal/statistical area description code (LSAD) (`us_census_lsad`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Two-character code that tells the legal or statistical kind of a geographic area in US Census Bureau files, such as 06 for a county; the full name in NAMELSAD joins the name and the description (Autauga County).

- Parent datatype: `category`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Geographic identifiers (geo), Government related (government)
- Countries: United States (US)
- Languages: English (en)
- Classification: categorical

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[0-9A-Z]{2}$
```

## Examples

- `06` — County
- `6` (invalid example) — Leading zero dropped

## Sources

- doc: <https://www.census.gov/library/reference/code-lists/legal-status-codes.html>

## Quality

Score 68/100. Missing: second example, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation, detector coverage.

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