Live demo · POST /validate

Validate an address and get back its correctly formatted version, including its geo-coordinates.

Same engine and response shape as the API. Pick a country, enter an address, and see exactly how we'd match it — no account needed for this quick check.

International Addresses

No account, no card. Up to 12 checks per day from this browser (register to get more). Addresses you submit here are kept for up to 90 days for internal purposes (improving address matching and our reference data), then permanently deleted — see our Privacy Policy for details. UK addresses are served from our dedicated Royal Mail PAF endpoint — see UK Address Validation.

Request

One endpoint, one address.

Send a freeform string or pre-split components. Acuris parses, normalizes, and verifies against authoritative postal sources.

  • Component-level breakdown (street, postcode, locality, country)
  • Deliverability flag & mailability score
  • Normalized output ready for storage
  • Confidence score on every field
  • ISO-3166 country normalization
curl · POST
$ curl https://api.acuris-geo.com/v1/validate \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ACURIS_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"address":"Schönhauser Allee 36, Berlin","country":"deu"}'
200 OK
{
  "status": "verified",
  "deliverable": true,
  "match_type": "rooftop",
  "accuracy_type": "rooftop",
  "confidence": 1.0,
  "confidence_level": "high",
  "lat": 52.538189,
  "lng": 13.412664,
  "standardized": {
    "street": "Schönhauser Allee",
    "house_number": "36",
    "postcode": "10435",
    "city": "Berlin",
    "country": "deu",
    "formatted_address": "Schönhauser Allee 36\n10435 Berlin\nGERMANY"
  },
  "corrections": []
}
What you get back

Every field, explained.

status
string

The one-line verdict: verified, corrected, partial or no_match.

match_score
number · 0–1

How closely the result matches what you sent in (also returned as confidence).

match_type
string

Precision tier behind the coordinate — rooftop, street-level or postcode-centroid (also returned as accuracy_type).

deliverable
boolean

Whether mail can physically be delivered to this address today.

corrections
array

Which parts of the input were auto-corrected — typos, abbreviations, missing pieces.

parsed
object

Your input broken into street, house number, postcode, city, state/region and country.

standardized
object

The corrected, canonical address — including a ready-to-print formatted_address.

match_components
object

Per-field true/false: which parts of your input actually matched reference data.

arrival_point
object

A separate entrance/access-point coordinate, when it differs from the rooftop centroid.

NEW · 18 COUNTRIES · INCLUDED FREE

Free census & geographic enrichment

Every address in the US, Canada, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, the UK, Finland, the Netherlands, Japan, Singapore, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Sweden, Luxembourg and Hong Kong that resolves to a house number and street-accurate match comes back enriched with the standard government geographic codes — included free, from public open data. In France we also return building attributes from IGN BD TOPO®. No separate append step, no per-record fee.

🇺🇸 United States

  • State & county FIPS codes
  • Census tract & block group
  • CBSA / MSA (metro & micro areas)
  • Congressional district (119th Congress)
  • School district

🇨🇦 Canada

  • Province & census division
  • Dissemination area & census subdivision
  • Census tract
  • CMA / CA (metropolitan area / agglomeration)
  • Federal electoral district

🇩🇪 Germany

  • AGS & ARS — municipality & regional key
  • Gemeinde & Kreis (district), with type
  • Bundesland & NUTS-3 region code
  • Bundestags-Wahlkreis (federal constituency)
  • Neighbourhood demographics — population, age, rent, vacancy (Zensus 2022)

🇦🇹 Austria

  • GKZ — municipality key
  • Gemeinde & Bundesland
  • Politischer Bezirk (political district)
  • Regionalwahlkreis (electoral constituency)
  • Zählsprengel (census enumeration unit)

🇨🇭 Switzerland

  • BFS-Nummer — federal municipality number
  • Gemeinde (municipality)
  • Kanton — also the federal (Nationalrat) constituency
  • Bezirk (district)

🇫🇷 France

  • Code INSEE & commune name
  • Département & région (code + name)
  • IRIS code, name & type
  • Building usage, floors & height
  • Dwelling count & national building ID (RNB)

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

  • Output area & LSOA / MSOA — keyed on the property’s UPRN
  • Local authority & ward
  • Westminster constituency
  • Region & constituent country
  • Police force area & rural/urban class

🇫🇮 Finland

  • Postal area name (Finnish & Swedish)
  • Population & age structure
  • Income — mean & median
  • Employment & local jobs
  • Households & dwellings

🇳🇱 Netherlands

  • Inhabitants & age bands
  • Households & composition
  • Dwellings & social-housing counts
  • WOZ home value
  • Tenure split & average gas / electricity use

🇯🇵 Japan

  • 500 m mesh code (JIS X 0410)
  • Population by sex
  • Age structure — 0–14, 15–64, 65+
  • Households for the same mesh cell

🇸🇬 Singapore

  • Year built & storeys
  • Dwelling units by flat type
  • Block use — residential, commercial, carpark, etc.
  • HDB town

🇧🇪 Belgium

  • Statistical sector — Belgium’s finest published unit
  • Municipality (Dutch & French names)
  • Population & density
  • Taxable income — median & mean

🇪🇸 Spain

  • Census section (cusec)
  • Population & age split
  • Household income — net & gross
  • Education attainment

🇵🇹 Portugal

  • BGRI subsecção — roughly a city block
  • Distrito, concelho & freguesia
  • Population & households
  • Building stock by construction epoch

🇮🇪 Ireland

  • Small Area — ~100 dwellings each
  • Electoral division (English & Irish)
  • County
  • Age, tenure, education & commuting stats

🇸🇪 Sweden

  • DeSO — Sweden’s census-tract equivalent
  • RegSO (coarser regional tier)
  • Kommun & län

🇱🇺 Luxembourg

  • Commune, canton & district
  • Census 2021 population & dwellings
  • Labour market — active & employed

🇭🇰 Hong Kong

  • Small Subunit Group — finest published census unit
  • Bilingual names (English & Traditional Chinese)
  • Population & households
  • Building name & level number

Returned on house-number- and street-accurate matches only (blank for centroid-only results and other countries); French building attributes require a rooftop-accurate match. Source: US Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024; Statistics Canada 2021 boundary files (Open Licence); IGN ADMIN EXPRESS COG, INSEE/IGN Contours IRIS® and IGN BD TOPO® (Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0); ONS NSUL for the UK (OGL v3.0); Statistics Finland Paavo and CBS Kerncijfers per postcode (CC BY 4.0); e-Stat mesh statistics for Japan; HDB for Singapore; Statbel (BE); INE (ES, PT); CSO & Tailte Éireann (IE); SCB (SE); STATEC (LU); C&SD (HK).