Summary Tables

These tables put the five dimensions side by side. They are the fastest way to see how the same code number means different things in different dimensions — 4000 is social, institutional, or infrastructure-related activities in the activity dimension but transportation, communication, information, and utilities in the function dimension — and they are a convenient basis for a lookup table or a validation list.

One-digit level

The nine top-level categories of each dimension.

Code	Activity	Function	Structure	Site	Ownership
1000	Residential activities	Residence or accommodation functions	Residential buildings	Site in natural state	No constraints — private ownership
2000	Shopping, business, or trade activities	General sales or services	Commercial buildings and other specialized structures	Developing site	Some constraints — easements or other use restrictions
3000	Industrial, manufacturing, and waste-related activities	Manufacturing and wholesale trade	Public assembly structures	Developed site — crops, grazing, forestry, etc.	Limited restrictions — leased and other tenancy restrictions
4000	Social, institutional, or infrastructure-related activities	Transportation, communication, information, and utilities	Institutional or community facilities	Developed site — no buildings and no structures	Public restrictions — local, state, and federal ownership
5000	Travel or movement activities	Arts, entertainment, and recreation	Transportation-related facilities	Developed site — nonbuilding structures	Other public use restrictions — regional, special districts, etc
6000	Mass assembly of people	Education, public admin., health care, and other inst.	Utility and other nonbuilding structures	Developed site — with buildings	Nonprofit ownership restrictions
7000	Leisure activities	Construction-related businesses	Specialized military structures	Developed site — with parks	Joint ownership character — public entities
8000	Natural resources-related activities	Mining and extraction establishments	Sheds, farm buildings, or agricultural facilities	Not applicable to this dimension	Joint ownership character — public, private, nonprofit, etc.
9000	No human activity or unclassifiable activity	Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting	No structure	Unclassifiable site development character	Not applicable to this dimension

Two-digit level

The second level of each dimension, grouped by top-level category. A dash means the dimension has no code at that number — the dimensions are not parallel below the first digit, and no meaning should be inferred from a shared code across dimensions.

1000 series

Code	Activity	Function	Structure	Site	Ownership
1000	Residential activities	Residence or accommodation functions	Residential buildings	Site in natural state	No constraints — private ownership
1100	Household activities	Private household	Single-family buildings	—	Private — fee simple
1200	Transient living	Housing services for the elderly	Multifamily structures	—	Private — less than fee simple
1300	Institutional living	Hotels, motels, or other accommodation services	Other specialized residential structures	—	—

2000 series

Code	Activity	Function	Structure	Site	Ownership
2000	Shopping, business, or trade activities	General sales or services	Commercial buildings and other specialized structures	Developing site	Some constraints — easements or other use restrictions
2100	Shopping	Retail sales or service	Office or bank building	Site that is graded with no structures or active use	Standard easements
2200	Restaurant-type activity	Finance and Insurance	Store or shop building	Site with temporary structures	Other easements
2300	Office activities	Real estate, and rental and leasing	Office or store building with residence on top	—	—
2400	—	Business, professional, scientific, and technical services	Office building over storefronts	—	—
2500	—	Food services	Malls, shopping centers, or collection of shops	—	—
2600	—	Personal services	Industrial buildings and structures	—	—
2700	—	Pet and animal sales or service (except veterinary)	Warehouse or storage facility	—	—

3000 series

Code	Activity	Function	Structure	Site	Ownership
3000	Industrial, manufacturing, and waste-related activities	Manufacturing and wholesale trade	Public assembly structures	Developed site — crops, grazing, forestry, etc.	Limited restrictions — leased and other tenancy restrictions
3100	Plant, factory, or heavy goods storage or handling activities	Food, textiles, and related products	Theater	—	—
3200	Solid waste management activities	Wood, paper, and printing products	Indoor games facility	—	—
3300	Construction activities (grading, digging, etc.)	Chemicals, and metals, machinery, and electronics manufacturing	Sports stadium or arena	—	—
3400	—	Miscellaneous manufacturing	Exhibition, convention, or conference structure	—	—
3500	—	Wholesale trade establishment	Churches, synagogues, temples, mosques, etc.	—	—
3600	—	Warehouse and storage services	Capitol buildings	—	—
3700	—	—	Covered or partially covered atriums and public enclosures	—	—
3800	—	—	Other community structures	—	—
3900	—	—	Passenger assembly	—	—

4000 series

Code	Activity	Function	Structure	Site	Ownership
4000	Social, institutional, or infrastructure-related activities	Transportation, communication, information, and utilities	Institutional or community facilities	Developed site — no buildings and no structures	Public restrictions — local, state, and federal ownership
4100	School or library activities	Transportation services	Medical facility	Outdoor storage areas, graded or ungraded	Local government
4200	Emergency response or public-safety-related activities	Communications and information	School or university buildings	—	State government
4300	Activities associated with utilities (water, sewer, power, etc.)	Utilities and utility services	Library building	—	Federal government
4400	Mass storage, inactive	—	Museum, exhibition, or similar facility	—	—
4500	Health care, medical, or treatment activities	—	Public safety-related facility	—	—
4600	Interment, cremation, or grave digging activities	—	Jails, penitentiaries, detention centers, and other correctional facilities	—	—
4700	Military base activities	—	Cemetery, monument, tombstone, or mausoleum	—	—
4800	—	—	Funeral homes and cremation facilities	—	—

5000 series

Code	Activity	Function	Structure	Site	Ownership
5000	Travel or movement activities	Arts, entertainment, and recreation	Transportation-related facilities	Developed site — nonbuilding structures	Other public use restrictions — regional, special districts, etc
5100	Pedestrian movement	Performing arts or supporting establishment	Linear or network feature	Developed site with landscaped or ornamental features	Regional government
5200	Vehicular movement	Museums and other special purpose recreational institutions	Automobile parking facilities	Developed site with billboards, signs, etc.	Port authorities
5300	—	Amusement, sports, or recreation establishment	Bus stop shelter	Developed site with roads, train tracks, and other linear structures	Tribal Lands
5400	Trains or other rail movement	Camps, camping, and related establishments	Bus or truck maintenance facility	Developed site with tanks, reservoirs, etc.	—
5500	Sailing, boating, and other port, marine and water-based activities	Natural and other recreational parks	Water transportation or marine related	—	—
5600	Aircraft takeoff, landing, taxiing, and parking	—	Air and space transportation facility	—	—
5700	Spacecraft launching and related activities	—	Railroad facility	—	—

6000 series

Code	Activity	Function	Structure	Site	Ownership
6000	Mass assembly of people	Education, public admin., health care, and other inst.	Utility and other nonbuilding structures	Developed site — with buildings	Nonprofit ownership restrictions
6100	Passenger assembly	Educational services	Utility structures on right-of-way	—	Nonprofit educational
6200	Spectator sports assembly	Public administration	Water-supply-related facility	—	Nonprofit philanthropic
6300	Movies, concerts, or entertainment shows	Other government functions	Sewer and waste-related facility	—	Nonprofit religious
6400	Gatherings at fairs and exhibitions	Public Safety	Gas or electric power generation facility	—	Nonprofit other
6500	Mass training, drills, etc.	Health and human services	Communication towers	—	—
6600	Social, cultural, or religious assembly	Religious institutions	Environmental monitoring station (air, soil, etc.)	—	—
6700	Gatherings at galleries, museums, aquariums, zoological parks, etc.	Death care services	Sign or billboard	—	—
6800	Historical or cultural celebrations, parades, reenactments, etc.	Associations, nonprofit organizations, etc.	—	—	—
6900	—	—	Other miscellaneous structures	—	—

7000 series

Code	Activity	Function	Structure	Site	Ownership
7000	Leisure activities	Construction-related businesses	Specialized military structures	Developed site — with parks	Joint ownership character — public entities
7100	Active leisure sports and related activities	Building, developing, and general contracting	Joint services facility	Local parks and recreational sites	—
7200	Passive leisure activity	Machinery related	Air Force facility	State, national, or other parks and recreational sites	—
7300	Flying or air-related sports	Special trade contractor	Army and marine corps facility	—	—
7400	Water sports and related leisure activities	Heavy construction	Naval facility	—	—
7500	—	—	Armory building	—	—

8000 series

Code	Activity	Function	Structure	Site	Ownership
8000	Natural resources-related activities	Mining and extraction establishments	Sheds, farm buildings, or agricultural facilities	Not applicable to this dimension	Joint ownership character — public, private, nonprofit, etc.
8100	Farming, tilling, plowing, harvesting, or related activities	Oil and natural gas	Grain silos and other storage structure for grains and agricultural products	—	—
8200	Livestock related activities	Metals (iron, copper, etc.)	Livestock facility	—	—
8300	Pasturing, grazing, etc.	Coal	Animal feed operations facility	—	—
8400	Logging	Nonmetallic mining	Animal waste-handling facility	—	—
8500	Quarrying or stone cutting	Quarrying and stone cutting establishment	Greenhouses	—	—
8600	Mining including surface and subsurface strip mining	—	Hatcheries	—	—
8700	Drilling, dredging, etc.	—	Kennels and other canine-related facilities	—	—
8800	—	—	Apiary and other related structures	—	—
8900	—	—	Other farm and farming-related structures	—	—

9000 series

Code	Activity	Function	Structure	Site	Ownership
9000	No human activity or unclassifiable activity	Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting	No structure	Unclassifiable site development character	Not applicable to this dimension
9100	Not applicable to this dimension	Crop production	Not applicable to this dimension	—	Unclassifiable ownership or restriction on the use
9200	Unclassifiable activity	Support functions for agriculture	Unclassifiable structure	—	—
9300	Subsurface activity	Animal production including slaughter	Subsurface structures	—	—
9400	—	Forestry and Logging	—	—	—
9500	—	Fishing, hunting and trapping, game preserves	—	—	—
9900	To be determined	Unclassifiable function	To be determined	To be determined	To be determined

Source

Code numbers, category names, and category descriptions on this page are reproduced from the American Planning Association's LBCS standard tables (1 April 2001).