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ZIP Code

Postal ZIP code recorded for the vendor location associated with the award. It is a location identifier, not a mailing narrative, and may reflect either the full 9-digit ZIP+4 or a shorter ZIP format depending on source data quality.

Family: Award
Category: Vendor Site Details
Data Type: identifier_or_code
Semantic Type: identifier
Mapping: flattened_fpds_xml_field
AI Confidence: high

Variable Overview

FPDS Query Variable
content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorLocation__ZIPCode
Title
ZIP Code
FPDS Path
award/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorLocation/ZIPCode
Description
Postal ZIP code recorded for the vendor location associated with the award. It is a location identifier, not a mailing narrative, and may reflect either the full 9-digit ZIP+4 or a shorter ZIP format depending on source data quality.
Business Meaning
This field supports geographic analysis of federal contracting activity by vendor location, including regional spend concentration, local economic impact, and proximity-based sourcing patterns. It is also useful for aggregating awards to geographic units when state or city fields are incomplete or inconsistent.
Example Value
076491534
Observed Non-Null Count
109,043,116

FPDS Compare

FPDS Query Variable
content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorLocation__ZIPCode
FPDS XML Path
award/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorLocation/ZIPCode
Mapping Type
flattened_fpds_xml_field
Comparison Summary
FPDS Query flattens the original nested FPDS XML path 'award/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorLocation/ZIPCode' into the SQL-ready variable 'content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorLocation__ZIPCode'.

Use Cases

  • Dictionary lookup and field explanation
  • SQL filtering and grouping
  • Analytical reporting and reusable query building
  • Contractor profiling and competitor analysis

Common Usage

  • Geographic rollups of vendor awards by ZIP, county, or commuting area
  • Linking vendor locations to external geography or census crosswalks
  • Identifying regional vendor concentration and distribution patterns

Common Mistakes

  • Casting the value to numeric and dropping leading zeros
  • Assuming ZIP code always matches the vendor's corporate headquarters or mailing address

Query Guidance

Use as a text field, not a numeric field. In SQL, trim whitespace and preserve leading zeros; for grouping, consider standardizing to the first 5 digits or parsing ZIP+4 consistently, for example with LEFT(content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorLocation__ZIPCode, 5) when appropriate.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorLocation__ZIPCode AS z_i_p_code
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorLocation__ZIPCode IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Top values

SELECT
    content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorLocation__ZIPCode AS value,
    count() AS record_count
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorLocation__ZIPCode IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY value
ORDER BY record_count DESC
LIMIT 25

Each dictionary item includes SQL-ready examples generated alongside the variable metadata, allowing immediate use in FPDS Query for filtering, aggregation, and analysis.