diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 1488dd85..1e897b6f 100755
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ gem 'fullcontact', '~> 0.18.0' # Full Contact API; includes #Hashie::Mash
 gem 'chronic', '~> 0.10.2' # For nat lang parsing of dates
 gem 'colorize', '~> 0.8.1' # Print colorized text in debugger/console
 gem 'countries', '~> 3.0'
-gem 'geocoder', '~> 1.5' # for adding latitude and longitude to location-based tables http://www.rubygeocoder.com/
+gem 'geocoder', '~> 1.6.3' # for adding latitude and longitude to location-based tables http://www.rubygeocoder.com/
 gem 'i18n-js', '~> 3.3'
 gem 'lograge', '~> 0.11.2' # make logging less terrible in rails
 gem 'nearest_time_zone', '~> 0.0.4' # for detecting timezone from lat/lng https://github.com/buytruckload/nearest_time_zone
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 27f60791..ec5f9b76 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ GEM
       faraday (~> 0.11.0)
       faraday_middleware (>= 0.10)
       hashie (>= 2.0, < 4.0)
-    geocoder (1.5.1)
+    geocoder (1.6.3)
     get_process_mem (0.2.4)
       ffi (~> 1.0)
     globalid (0.4.2)
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   font_assets (~> 0.1.14)
   foreman (~> 0.87.1)
   fullcontact (~> 0.18.0)
-  geocoder (~> 1.5)
+  geocoder (~> 1.6.3)
   hamster (~> 3.0)
   heroku-deflater (~> 0.6.3)
   httparty (~> 0.17.0)