Format shp

Parcel Data in Shapefile

The format every desktop GIS reads without being asked, and the one most county assessors still publish.

Datasets available: 0
Extension: .zip (.shp/.shx/.dbf/.prj)
Media type: application/zip
Geometry: yes

Take it when

Anything that has to open on someone else's machine without a conversation about drivers. Thirty years of tooling assumes it.

Watch out for

Field names are truncated to 10 characters and the DBF attribute table has no real text encoding declaration, so long assessor column names arrive mangled. The 2 GB per-file ceiling is a real limit on the biggest urban counties.

Reads it QGISArcGIS ProGeoPandasGDAL/OGRPostGIS shp2pgsql

Counties available as Shapefile

Nothing is published as Shapefile yet. Every dataset here is converted on publish, so this fills in as the catalog grows.

Other formats

geojson GeoJSON Plain text, WGS84, readable in a browser and in a code review. The web's parcel format. gpkg GeoPackage One SQLite file, full-length field names, real CRS metadata, no sidecar files to lose. csv CSV The attribute table with the geometry left behind — parcel IDs, owners, addresses, valuations. parquet GeoParquet Columnar, compressed, and typed. Built for reading one column of ten million parcels rather than one parcel at a time.