Geographic Centroid Location Codes

Location codes that begin with "G" are geographic centroid location codes. Geographic centroids may be returned if the street centroid fallback option is enabled and an address-level geocode could not be determined. Geographic centroid location codes indicate the quality of a city, county, or state centroid.

A geographic centroid location code has the following characters.

1st character

Always "G" indicating a location derived from a geographic centroid.

2nd character

Geographic area type. One of the following:

M
Municipality (for example, a city)
C
County
S
State