The living census
When the app launches in 2027, every scan — stripped of the photo, anonymous, counted only in groups — will build a map of the dogs people actually live with. The method is settled and published now; the first numbers arrive with the launch.
BreedQuest turns a photo of a dog into a breed guess. Add up those guesses, anonymously and in aggregate, and you get something no kennel club or pet-food survey has: a running read on the dogs people actually walk, not the ones they register or buy. That is the census. It reports shares of scans, never a count of the national dog population, and only ever for groups — never a pet, never a household.
Read now, and coming with launch
How the census works
What a scan is, what gets counted, where the sample is skewed, and the privacy line the census will not cross. The part that makes the numbers worth citing.
State of the Dogs
The flagship report: the breed mix, the real size of the dogs around us, and how both differ by region. The scaffold is live; the first edition lands with the 2027 launch.
For researchers & press
Each edition will be aggregated, anonymised, and citable as "BreedQuest community dog census". No individual, pet, or precise-location data is ever published or shared. If you want the dataset the moment it opens, or a chart cleared for reuse, write to [email protected]. Read the methodology →
Every trait score for 458 breeds, in one downloadable file. The breed dataset →