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description: Household matching lets you consolidate unified individuals into groups of individuals called households. Households use the Unified Individual object as the primary data model object for the ruleset and output to the Unified Household object.
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# Group Individuals into Households

Household matching lets you consolidate unified individuals into groups of individuals called households. Households use the Unified Individual object as the primary data model object for the ruleset and output to the Unified Household object.

Before you can create households, you must first set up a ruleset based on the Individual object and run it to produce Unified Individual profiles. Then set up a ruleset based on the output of an Individual ruleset.

Each household group is designated with a separate UUID. Output from the ruleset is stored in the Unified Household object.

#### See Also

- [_Salesforce Help_: Match Rules for Households](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=data.c360_a_identity_resolution_match_rules_households.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "You can add only one match rule to a ruleset when configuring household matching in Data 360 identity resolution. Each unified household contains one or more individuals. We recommend matching individuals into households based on either last name and address or on party identifier.")