Perform a radius search
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Activate Address Verification in your account
Radius searches can only be performed on addresses that have been verified. To activate or confirm that the Address Verification feature is activated in LGL navigate to Settings > Subscription Settings > General. Scroll down the page to the Address Verification, Deduplication, and Cleanup section of the page, and follow these steps:
- Click the Activate Address Verification button.
Enable automatic updates to your addresses, if desired. With this option enabled, LGL will work its way through all your existing data and update/clean/verify any unambiguous and verifiable addresses.
NOTE: Address Verification will verify only the “preferred” address for a constituent. Keep in mind, this process occurs gradually rather than all at once and can typically take 24 hours or longer to complete, depending on the amount of data in your account.
Perform your radius search
A radius search allows you to search among the addresses in your database for those that lie within the radius of a geographic region. It is possible to search the radius (up to 100 miles) of a city, state, or Zip code.
To perform the radius search, go to your Constituents tab. In the Advanced Search area at the top of the page, search on “City, State, or ZIP/Postal”. Then select the number of miles you want to search within. You can populate any or all of the City, State and ZIP/Postal Code fields. Using the ZIP/Postal code field will also yield the most precise results.
We also recommend that you add more criteria to the search to include the preferred address, as shown below. Otherwise the search will return any constituent who has an address that has been verified within the radius search parameters, even if it is not their current preferred address (such as a seasonal address). Then click the Search button.
This brief video demonstrates how to perform the radius search: