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title: "Coverage"
description: "What \"covered\" means for an address in Bucky, why coverage varies by jurisdiction, and how to check it before you trust a result."
last_updated: "2026-08-17"
---

"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](/docs/platform/zoning#what-you-see) 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

1. Run a project on one address you already know in your market.
2. Read the coverage status and the per-fact status on the zoning and
   feasibility results.
3. 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.


## Sitemap

See the full [sitemap](/sitemap.md) for all pages.