---
id: "us_census_region"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["geo", "government"]
country: ["US"]
langs: ["en"]
quality: 75
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/us_census_region"
---

# US Census region code (`us_census_region`)

> **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.

Code of one of the four census regions of the United States: 1 Northeast, 2 Midwest, 3 South, 4 West.

- 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`):

```
^[1-4]$
```

## Examples

- `1` — Northeast
- `3` — South
- `5` (invalid example)

## Sources

- doc: <https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/maps/reference/us_regdiv.pdf>

## Quality

Score 75/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation, detector coverage.

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