Easy segmentation by county

Doing geographic segmentation by county — rather than proximity like “within X miles of Y” — can make a lot of sense.

But how do you know the right county for any given contact address?

• It's not a question you'd normally ask on a form, e.g. next to City and State.

• You can't really expect your staff to look up the county for every single address they enter.

Fortunately, in CiviCRM, you can make the right county populate automatically.

• You’ll need to use Google as your geocoder service.

• You'll need one of these CiviCRM extensions: County Lookup or Geocoder

Once you have that, CiviCRM uses its existing geolocation fetures to automatically assign a county to every address, right when it's entered.

No manual lookups, no requiring your constituents to fill in yet another field.

Just correct counties for every address, automatically, for easy segmentation when you need it.

Easy!

All the best,
A.

P.S. If your CiviCRM setup doesn't yet have all the counties you need (that is, you can't even manually specify the right county for any given address), and if you're dealing with US addresses, you can install the US County Loader extension. Merely installing it will make all US counties available for your contact addresses.