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

# US Public Use Microdata Area (PUMA) code (`us_puma`)

> **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 a Public Use Microdata Area, a statistical area for census and American Community Survey microdata with at least 100,000 people that nests within a state. The PUMA code has 5 digits with leading zeros; the 7-digit GEOID puts the 2-digit state code in front.

- 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`):

```
^(?:\d{2})?\d{5}$
```

## Examples

- `00800` — Calhoun County, Alabama (2020 PUMA)
- `0100800` — same PUMA as a GEOID with state code 01
- `01403` — Birmingham City, Alabama (2020 PUMA)
- `800` (invalid example) — not zero-padded

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Use_Microdata_Area>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7257651>
- doc: <https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/geo-areas/pumas.html>
- other: <https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/reference/puma2020/2020_PUMA_Names.pdf>

## Quality

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

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