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Standardized Nationwide
Land Use Codes

Standardized land use codes, covering >99% of the US population.
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Standardized Land Use Codes

In addition to high-quality, standardized nationwide parcel data, we have put together contextual, standardized nationwide land use codes as part of our premium data package. These codes will help you get nuanced context on land use for your projects.

From community and urban planning to site selection, to understanding what activity is allowed on a particular piece of land, and to commercial real estate, the use cases are endless & Regrid’s standardized use codes have you covered.

Data-driven decisions and faster time to market for your projects.

What Do We Offer?

We offer standardized land use information for five dimensions:

                        1. Activity describes the actual activity & use of the property such as “Residential” or “Restaurant-type activity” or “Power transmission lines” or “control activities” or “Hunting” and the list goes on.

                        2. Function describes the brand economic or social use of the parcel such as “Alternative energy sources” or “Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting” or “Commercial property-related or Private household” or “Cafeteria or limited service restaurant” or “Hydroelectric”...

                        3. Structure describes the type of structure & building on the parcel. Examples include “single family buildings”, “types of multi-unit buildings - 3 units, 11 units” etc, “detached united”, “Office building over storefronts” etc.

                        4. Site describes the physical characteristics of a site or land. For example, “Developed site -- crops, grazing, forestry, etc. “ or “State, national, or other parks and recreational sites etc.”

                        5. Ownership mainly describes if it’s publicly or privately owned land. “Private property” or publicly owned by the local government, county and or non-profit organizations etc. We are currently in the process of developing and populating this field all through 2021.

We derived our inspiration from the American Planning Association (APA) and used their Land Based Classification System (LBCS) codes as the guidelines to populate our standardized land-use codes. We applied the LBCS guidelines to the diverse data that we receive from the county, state & designated public sources such as use codes, use description, zoning, ownership, and our premium derivative columns to weave them into a standardized use classification system at a nationwide level.

In the top 50 metro areas in the country, we currently have over 80% coverage for the two main land use code dimensions - Activity & Function. Over 2/3rds of our entire nationwide dataset has standardized land use codes at this time and growing as we speak. We continually add new places and fill in codes for existing ones. You can stay up to date on which places have standardized land use codes using the Regrid coverage report.

Why is this Valuable?

Local parcel data & property information does not use a widely adopted or standardized use code system. If there is any information pertaining to how a parcel is used, it usually takes the form of local zoning, land use, or tax assessors’ codes.

There isn’t any one universal format for standardized land use codes. Because this data varies by county and state. Regrid’s nationwide standardized classification is a one-stop-solution that makes it easy for anyone who works with our parcel data to make use of nuanced contextual land use information.

It’s also important to note that to weave these land use codes in a standardized format means continuous improvement cycles of multiple rounds of manual review & QC’ing of these codes at our end.

What Does This Help You With?

Data driven decisions are faster time to market for your projects!

Our parcel data will be your one turn-key solution for all of your contextual property data needs.


At Regrid, we use our standardized land use codes for property data analyses for various use cases too. Our recent study on land along the US-Mexico border is a good practical use case for using land use codes to derive more context into property ownership & use along the border.

US - Mexico Border

How to Get It

We have seen very many use cases that our customers use our land use codes for mostly with use cases that need to differentiate between commercial and residential, commercial or industrial etc.

Many of them use it as an alternative for zoning & use descriptions for a property since those don’t always come populated from county sources or are not standardized at scale.

"Pivvot uses Loveland's LBCS Columns for customers who need detailed zoning & land use information. Often, the data in these columns are not included in parcel data & county level data. The LBCS columns have been an efficient alternative to missing source data and provide value to our customers."

Pete Veenstra
VP of Data Architecture

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How Do Our Customers Use the Land Use Codes?

Get our standardized land use code attributes as part of our premium data package along with our other premium derivative fields via bulk data, API, Regrid Pro, Regrid Team & Regrid Enterprise subscriptions.

Premium data includes nationwide parcel boundaries with all standard attributes, plus a variety of fields we append to the data from other sources such as:

              • Standardized land use codes

              • Nationwide USPS-validated address data with uniform residential property indicators and vacancy information

              • Nationwide building footprint counts and building footprint square footage

Land Use Codes Documentation

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Land Use Codes Documentation

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How Else Can We Help You?

In addition to providing amazing parcel data, make sure you check out The Regrid Property App. We customize this software for clients through our white label Enterprise product. We also partner with parcel-level machine learning and predictive analytics companies if you need additional analysis.

Explore Land Use Codes on Our Mapping Software

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