Housing Nutrition Label™
A free, nutrition-label-style scorecard for any U.S. home — what it costs to run, how well it holds up, and what the neighborhood is like. Thirteen dimensions, all from public data.
Why this exists
A home is one of the biggest purchases people make, yet it's surprisingly hard to judge. Buyers can't easily see how well a home is built, what it will cost to run, or how exposed it is to disasters. Builders get little credit for doing better, because the market can't tell the difference. Cities struggle to show how much cheaper compact neighborhoods are to serve than sprawl.
So this puts all of it into one open scorecard: thirteen dimensions, each scored 0–100 from public data, with a grade and a percentile that say how the home compares to the rest of the country.
What gets scored
Thirteen dimensions, split the way the question usually splits: is it the house, or is it the block? Every label groups them this way too. Follow any one for how it's calculated.
The building itself
What the structure is. None of it changes if you put the same house somewhere else.
The site & environment
What surrounds it — hazards, air, water, sun, streets, and the cost of serving the lot.
Neighborhood context
Shown in full, but deliberately left out of the site grade: both measure the people nearby rather than the place.
Reading a score
Every dimension gets a grade on fixed national thresholds — so a B means the same thing in any city — and a national percentile (“72nd US”), the share of comparable U.S. homes it beats.
A B C D F A ≥ 80, B ≥ 60, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 20, F < 20. How grades and percentiles are built.
Where the project stands
Any U.S. address scores across all thirteen dimensions today, from national public data: FEMA, USGS, EPA, CDC, NOAA, the Census Bureau, and the EIA — all of it free and keyless, none of it proprietary. You can also model construction choices, multi-unit buildings, and 20+ above-code upgrades. The project began as a pilot in Shelby County, TN, and a few cost baselines are still being generalized nationwide; the label flags those where they apply. See every dataset.
The engine, data pipeline, and address-search service are source-available under PolyForm Shield 1.0.0 — public to read, run, self-host, and build on, but not to resell as a competing service. The government data underneath is public domain and isn't licensed by us.