Location data and service coverage
We use approximate ZIP and locality points to help you find service offers near the place where work is needed. These points represent an area. They are not your home, an exact service address, a driving distance, or a guarantee that a provider can take the job.
Use the ZIP for the work address
A PO-box, business-only, military, or other mailing ZIP may have no sufficiently precise geographic point. When that happens, we recognize the mailing ZIP and ask for the ZIP of the physical service address. This does not mean there are no providers in the surrounding city.
Offers keep the provider's actual listed base location. Search matching uses their configured service area. Confirm the exact work address, travel fees, timing, scope and final price with the provider. A request becomes a confirmed job only after the provider agrees.
Our reference sources
- US Postal Service five-digit ZIP assignments and ZIP classification reference identify mailing ZIPs. The current import uses the reviewed October 2026 files.
- US Census Bureau 2026 ZCTA Gazetteer supplies representative internal points where available. Census ZCTAs approximate postal areas and do not cover every mailing ZIP.
- GeoNames supplies postal locality names and selected named-place representative points under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. We normalize these records, filter them against the reviewed USPS list and join suitable records to Census points. GeoNames locality names are not asserted to be USPS preferred city names or incorporated city boundaries.
Previously reviewed marketplace points and explicitly disclosed ZIP aliases are preserved. Reference ZIP data can change, and a daily source export does not establish when every underlying record was last updated.
Pages and search results
City and service pages use current published offers. Eligibility for search indexing requires validated geography and useful local inventory; a recognized ZIP alone does not create a bookable offer or an indexed page. Search engines and AI platforms independently decide which pages to index, retrieve or cite.