diff --git a/frontend/.gitignore b/frontend/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d8b83df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+package-lock.json
diff --git a/frontend/app/api/populace/route.ts b/frontend/app/api/populace/route.ts
index fe72978..10f3b82 100644
--- a/frontend/app/api/populace/route.ts
+++ b/frontend/app/api/populace/route.ts
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ export async function GET(request: Request) {
           { name: "build_manifest", path: `${prefix}/build_manifest.json`, url: hfResolveUrl(`${prefix}/build_manifest.json`, country) },
           { name: "release_manifest", path: `${prefix}/release_manifest.json`, url: hfResolveUrl(`${prefix}/release_manifest.json`, country) },
           { name: "calibration_diagnostics", path: `${prefix}/calibration_diagnostics.json`, url: hfResolveUrl(`${prefix}/calibration_diagnostics.json`, country) },
+          { name: "demographics", path: `${prefix}/demographics.json`, url: hfResolveUrl(`${prefix}/demographics.json`, country) },
         ],
         limitations: [
           `Everything on this page is read live from the ${populaceRepo(country)} Hugging Face dataset; the current release is resolved through latest.json.`,
diff --git a/frontend/components/populace/populace-overview-view.tsx b/frontend/components/populace/populace-overview-view.tsx
index dfbc520..e5b0925 100644
--- a/frontend/components/populace/populace-overview-view.tsx
+++ b/frontend/components/populace/populace-overview-view.tsx
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import {
   usePopulaceReleases,
   usePopulaceTargetTreemap,
 } from "@/lib/api/hooks/use-populace";
+import type { GeographyCoverageBlock } from "@/lib/api/hooks/use-populace";
 
 function formatPublishedAt(value: string | null | undefined): string {
   if (!value) return "—";
@@ -176,6 +177,8 @@ export function PopulaceOverviewView() {
         <KpiCard label="Published" value={formatPublishedAt(data.updated_at)} />
       </div>
 
+      <GeographyCoverageSection coverage={cal.geography_coverage ?? null} />
+
       <SectionCard
         title="Calibration map"
         actions={
@@ -347,3 +350,78 @@ export function PopulaceOverviewView() {
     </div>
   );
 }
+
+/** Household-record counts by geography — the release's sub-national
+ *  resolution floor. Records, not weights: no calibration can rescue a
+ *  geography with too few underlying records (48 districts under 50 in the
+ *  2026-07 national-only release blocked district features downstream). */
+function GeographyCoverageSection({
+  coverage,
+}: {
+  coverage: {
+    unit?: string;
+    states?: GeographyCoverageBlock | null;
+    congressional_districts?: GeographyCoverageBlock | null;
+  } | null;
+}) {
+  const districts = coverage?.congressional_districts ?? null;
+  const states = coverage?.states ?? null;
+  if (!districts && !states) return null;
+  const under50 = districts?.n_under_50 ?? null;
+  const thinnest = districts?.counts
+    ? Object.entries(districts.counts)
+        .sort((a, b) => a[1] - b[1])
+        .slice(0, 10)
+    : [];
+  return (
+    <SectionCard
+      title="Geography coverage"
+      description="Unweighted household records per geography — the resolution floor for sub-national analysis. Districts need enough records, not just calibrated weights."
+    >
+      <div className="grid grid-cols-2 gap-3 md:grid-cols-4">
+        <KpiCard
+          label="Congressional districts"
+          value={districts?.n_geographies == null ? "—" : fmt(districts.n_geographies, { digits: 0 })}
+        />
+        <KpiCard
+          label="Median records / district"
+          value={districts?.household_records_median == null ? "—" : fmt(districts.household_records_median, { digits: 0 })}
+        />
+        <KpiCard
+          label={
+            <HelpHint
+              label="Districts under 50 records"
+              tooltip="Districts with fewer than 50 household records cannot support district-level rate estimates. Zero here is the readiness bar for congressional-district features."
+            />
+          }
+          value={under50 == null ? "—" : fmt(under50, { digits: 0 })}
+          delta={under50 == null ? undefined : under50 === 0 ? "district-ready" : "blocks district analysis"}
+          tone={under50 == null ? undefined : under50 === 0 ? "positive" : "negative"}
+        />
+        <KpiCard
+          label="Min records / state"
+          value={states?.household_records_min == null ? "—" : fmt(states.household_records_min, { digits: 0 })}
+        />
+      </div>
+      {thinnest.length > 0 && (under50 ?? 0) > 0 && (
+        <div className="mt-4">
+          <div className="mb-1 text-xs font-semibold uppercase tracking-wider text-muted-foreground">
+            Thinnest districts
+          </div>
+          <div className="flex flex-wrap gap-2 text-xs tabular-nums">
+            {thinnest.map(([district, count]) => (
+              <span
+                key={district}
+                className={`rounded border border-border px-2 py-0.5 ${
+                  count < 50 ? "text-destructive" : "text-muted-foreground"
+                }`}
+              >
+                {district}: {count}
+              </span>
+            ))}
+          </div>
+        </div>
+      )}
+    </SectionCard>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/frontend/lib/api/hooks/use-populace.ts b/frontend/lib/api/hooks/use-populace.ts
index 3168c7d..44954af 100644
--- a/frontend/lib/api/hooks/use-populace.ts
+++ b/frontend/lib/api/hooks/use-populace.ts
@@ -149,6 +149,16 @@ export interface PopulaceFamilyFitRow {
   mean_abs_relative_error: number | null;
 }
 
+export interface GeographyCoverageBlock {
+  n_geographies?: number | null;
+  household_records_min?: number | null;
+  household_records_median?: number | null;
+  household_records_max?: number | null;
+  n_under_50?: number | null;
+  n_under_100?: number | null;
+  counts?: Record<string, number>;
+}
+
 export interface PopulaceCalibration {
   available: boolean;
   path?: string | null;
@@ -159,6 +169,11 @@ export interface PopulaceCalibration {
   l0_lambda?: number | null;
   n_nonzero?: number | null;
   n_records?: number | null;
+  geography_coverage?: {
+    unit?: string;
+    states?: GeographyCoverageBlock | null;
+    congressional_districts?: GeographyCoverageBlock | null;
+  } | null;
   initial_loss?: number | null;
   final_loss?: number | null;
   loss_kind?: "normalized_target_loss" | "raw_optimizer_objective";
diff --git a/frontend/lib/populace/latest-artifact.ts b/frontend/lib/populace/latest-artifact.ts
index 58086ae..02953f1 100644
--- a/frontend/lib/populace/latest-artifact.ts
+++ b/frontend/lib/populace/latest-artifact.ts
@@ -1463,6 +1463,10 @@ export interface Calibration {
   included_target_count: number;
   build_manifest: JsonObject;
   release_manifest: JsonObject;
+  // demographics.json geography_coverage: unweighted household-record counts
+  // by state / congressional district (the release's sub-national resolution
+  // floor). Null for releases published before the section existed.
+  geography_coverage: JsonObject | null;
   rows: TargetRow[];
 }
 
@@ -1499,6 +1503,7 @@ export function buildCalibration(
   updatedAt: string | null = null,
   buildManifest: JsonObject = {},
   releaseManifest: JsonObject = {},
+  demographics: JsonObject = {},
 ): Calibration {
   const targets = Array.isArray(diag.targets) ? (diag.targets as TargetRow[]) : [];
   const skipped = Array.isArray(diag.skipped) ? (diag.skipped as JsonObject[]) : [];
@@ -1536,6 +1541,9 @@ export function buildCalibration(
     included_target_count: includedTargetCount,
     build_manifest: buildManifest,
     release_manifest: releaseManifest,
+    geography_coverage: Object.keys(asObject(demographics.geography_coverage)).length
+      ? asObject(demographics.geography_coverage)
+      : null,
     rows,
   };
 }
@@ -1674,12 +1682,13 @@ async function loadReleaseUncached(
     updatedAt = ptr.updated_at;
   }
   const prefix = `releases/${id}`;
-  const [diag, buildManifest, releaseManifest] = await Promise.all([
+  const [diag, buildManifest, releaseManifest, demographics] = await Promise.all([
     hfJson(hfResolveUrl(`${prefix}/calibration_diagnostics.json`, country), revalidate),
     hfJson(hfResolveUrl(`${prefix}/build_manifest.json`, country), revalidate).catch(() => ({})),
     hfJson(hfResolveUrl(`${prefix}/release_manifest.json`, country), revalidate).catch(() => ({})),
+    hfJson(hfResolveUrl(`${prefix}/demographics.json`, country), revalidate).catch(() => ({})),
   ]);
-  return buildCalibration(diag, id, updatedAt, buildManifest, releaseManifest);
+  return buildCalibration(diag, id, updatedAt, buildManifest, releaseManifest, demographics);
 }
 
 function targetDiagnosticsMetadata(rows: TargetRow[]): TargetDiagnosticsMetadata {
@@ -1938,6 +1947,7 @@ export function latestPopulaceCalibrationSummary(cal: Calibration) {
     total_targets: cal.rows.length,
     within_tolerance_count: withinToleranceCount(cal.rows),
     family_fit: familyFitSummary(cal.rows),
+    geography_coverage: cal.geography_coverage,
   };
 }