Basic City List
Every U.S. city, town, village, township, and census place — cleaned, standardized, and ready to join. The free starting point.
Why teams buy the list instead of building one
Three reasons teams buy a List instead of building one.
Straight from the federal record
Every column traces to an official source — the U.S. Census Bureau, HUD, and the Department of the Interior. Compiled and cleaned, not scraped. Delivered as a spreadsheet the moment you check out.
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Use it in personal, business, and commercial projects — no subscription, no recurring fees, no user limits, and no attribution required. Buy once; use it whenever.
Clean, and built to join
Consistent place names and FIPS keys mean it opens in Excel, Google Sheets, or any database and drops straight into your data. The City, County, and ZIP lists share those keys, so they join to each other too.
Every column in the file, typed and documented. Want to start building before you buy? Download a 100-row sample — the real database with real values, free to integrate against.
| CSV column | Type | What it represents |
|---|---|---|
| id | number | Unique per-row identifier assigned by the data vendor for this data vintage. |
| fips_place_code | text | Place GEOID (state + place FIPS); functioning townships use the 10-digit county-subdivision GEOID. |
| name | text | Cleaned, consumer-facing place name. |
| name_ascii | text | Plain-ASCII version of name, with accents and special characters removed — used for case/accent-insensitive matching and joins. |
| state_code | text | USPS two-letter state or territory code. |
| state_name | text | Full U.S. state or territory name. |
| type | text | Census/vendor place-type code. Values in the current data: balance, borough, cdp, city, comunidad, consolidated_city, town, township, village, and zona_urbana (the last two are Puerto Rico designations). |
| incorporated | boolean | TRUE for legally incorporated US municipalities (city, town, village, borough). FALSE for CDPs, consolidated-city balances, townships, and Puerto Rico unincorporated communities. |
| county_fips | text | The city's main county FIPS code. Blank for Washington, DC and a handful of places without a county on file. |
| county_name | text | Primary (largest-overlap) county. |
A UTF-8 CSV inside a .zip. It opens in Excel, Google Sheets, databases, BI tools, and any programming language.
Every List ships under a single-seat commercial license — use it in personal, business, and commercial projects. No subscriptions or user limits.
Annually, as the underlying federal releases publish. Your purchase is the current vintage at download time.
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48,490 cities with the columns you need — one clean spreadsheet. Free, instant download, single-seat commercial license.