Coverage

What "covered" means for an address in Bucky, why coverage varies by jurisdiction, and how to check it before you trust a result.

"Your data will not be right in my market" is the objection Bucky hears most from teams that work in one place and know it well. This page explains what coverage means for an address, so you can check it instead of guessing.

Coverage is explicit, not assumed

Bucky does not claim universal coverage, and it does not silently guess when it doesn't have a jurisdiction. Every address resolves to a coverage status you can see:

Status	Meaning
`live`	The address's jurisdiction is seeded and answering from source data.
`live_unavailable`	The jurisdiction is live, but this specific answer isn't available.
`planned_not_live`	The jurisdiction is on the roadmap; not seeded yet.
`geo_division_uncatalogued`	Bucky can't yet place the address in a known jurisdiction.
`unseeded_place`	The place itself has not been seeded.
`geocode_failed`	The address couldn't be resolved to a location at all.

When an address falls outside coverage, Bucky still tells you why — it does not return an empty or misleading result.

Why this matters more than a city count

Coverage breadth is easy to claim and hard to verify — competitors publish tens of thousands of cities without a public list or a way to check one. Bucky takes the opposite approach: an explicit status per address, and a citation per fact once a jurisdiction is live. See Zoning for how that shows up at the rule level.

Depth in a jurisdiction also varies. A live jurisdiction can still have individual zones or rule types that are unverified_default or not_extracted rather than cited — check the status on the specific answer you need, not just whether the city is "in."

How to check coverage for your market

Run a project on one address you already know in your market.
Read the coverage status and the per-fact status on the zoning and feasibility results.
Treat cited and cited_conditional values as sourced; treat unverified_default and anything outside coverage as a starting point to verify, not a final answer.

What Bucky will not claim

Bucky does not publish a target city count or promise coverage in a market it hasn't seeded. New jurisdictions are added over time; if your market isn't live yet, the honest answer is planned_not_live or unseeded_place, not a guess dressed up as a result.