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
- 3,720
- 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.
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Counties available as Shapefile
| County | GEOID | State | Vintage | Parcels | Size | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autauga County | 01001 | AL | 2021-09 | 33.0k | 140 MB | Get |
| Baldwin County | 01003 | AL | 2021-06 | 162k | 169 MB | Get |
| Baldwin County | 01003 | AL | 2018-03 | 149k | 134 MB | Get |
| Barbour County | 01005 | AL | 2021-08 | 25.1k | 31.2 MB | Get |
| Bibb County | 01007 | AL | 2022-04 | 17.0k | 30.4 MB | Get |
| Bibb County | 01007 | AL | 2017-08 | 16.5k | 29.3 MB | Get |
| Blount County | 01009 | AL | 2023-01 | 43.8k | 77.8 MB | Get |
| Blount County | 01009 | AL | 2019-07 | 42.9k | 76.0 MB | Get |
| Blount County | 01009 | AL | 2017-04 | 43.1k | 56.0 MB | Get |
| Calhoun County | 01015 | AL | 2023-06 | 74.2k | 487 MB | Get |
| Calhoun County | 01015 | AL | 2021-08 | 73.5k | 485 MB | Get |
| Calhoun County | 01015 | AL | 2018-01 | 73.0k | 491 MB | Get |
| Chambers County | 01017 | AL | 2015-10 | 26.4k | 43.7 MB | Get |
| Cherokee County | 01019 | AL | 2023-12 | 34.0k | 50.2 MB | Get |
| Chilton County | 01021 | AL | 2022-10 | 33.1k | 55.9 MB | Get |
| Chilton County | 01021 | AL | 2017-08 | 31.5k | 52.5 MB | Get |
| Choctaw County | 01023 | AL | 2023-10 | 26.6k | 34.8 MB | Get |
| Choctaw County | 01023 | AL | 2019-09 | 23.6k | 33.6 MB | Get |
| Choctaw County | 01023 | AL | 2018-03 | 23.6k | 33.5 MB | Get |
| Clarke County | 01025 | AL | 2023-10 | 32.1k | 33.1 MB | Get |
| Clarke County | 01025 | AL | 2021-06 | 31.8k | 32.1 MB | Get |
| Clarke County | 01025 | AL | 2018-03 | 31.6k | 32.4 MB | Get |
| Clay County | 01027 | AL | 2018-01 | 16.9k | 37.6 MB | Get |
| Cleburne County | 01029 | AL | 2024-01 | 16.9k | 26.7 MB | Get |
| Cleburne County | 01029 | AL | 2021-09 | 16.5k | 20.8 MB | Get |
| Cleburne County | 01029 | AL | 2018-01 | 16.3k | 20.3 MB | Get |
| Coffee County | 01031 | AL | 2023-11 | 37.8k | 47.9 MB | Get |
| Coffee County | 01031 | AL | 2023-11 | 37.8k | 28.4 MB | Get |
| Coffee County | 01031 | AL | 2018-01 | 39.7k | 43.1 MB | Get |
| Colbert County | 01033 | AL | 2023-10 | 43.1k | 89.3 MB | Get |
| Colbert County | 01033 | AL | 2017-08 | 43.6k | 75.5 MB | Get |
| Conecuh County | 01035 | AL | 2018-03 | 18.7k | 21.8 MB | Get |
| Coosa County | 01037 | AL | 2024-01 | 31.5k | 95.4 MB | Get |
| Coosa County | 01037 | AL | 2023-01 | 31.3k | 84.5 MB | Get |
| Coosa County | 01037 | AL | 2021-09 | 29.0k | 65.0 MB | Get |
| Coosa County | 01037 | AL | 2018-01 | 30.5k | 84.3 MB | Get |
| Covington County | 01039 | AL | 2018-06 | 33.8k | 48.3 MB | Get |
| Crenshaw County | 01041 | AL | 2018-01 | 18.2k | 31.5 MB | Get |
| Cullman County | 01043 | AL | 2021-04 | 59.0k | 94.3 MB | Get |
| Cullman County | 01043 | AL | 2019-07 | 55.4k | 87.1 MB | Get |
| Cullman County | 01043 | AL | 2018-09 | 58.4k | 84.6 MB | Get |
| Cullman County | 01043 | AL | 2017-04 | 54.2k | 62.3 MB | Get |
| Dallas County | 01047 | AL | 2017-08 | 31.4k | 64.2 MB | Get |
| DeKalb County | 01049 | AL | 2023-10 | 53.2k | 81.5 MB | Get |
| DeKalb County | 01049 | AL | 2021-02 | 52.4k | 79.4 MB | Get |
| Elmore County | 01051 | AL | 2023-04 | 53.5k | 89.8 MB | Get |
| Elmore County | 01051 | AL | 2017-10 | 49.1k | 58.7 MB | Get |
| Escambia County | 01053 | AL | 2018-03 | 32.3k | 47.9 MB | Get |
| Etowah County | 01055 | AL | 2018-01 | 73.9k | 65.0 MB | Get |
| Fayette County | 01057 | AL | 2022-04 | 22.8k | 38.4 MB | Get |
| Franklin County | 01059 | AL | 2018-09 | 22.6k | 45.2 MB | Get |
| Franklin County | 01059 | AL | 2017-10 | 23.9k | 65.9 MB | Get |
| Geneva County | 01061 | AL | 2023-09 | 25.4k | 34.8 MB | Get |
| Greene County | 01063 | AL | 2023-05 | 10.8k | 24.0 MB | Get |
| Greene County | 01063 | AL | 2021-09 | 10.8k | 24.0 MB | Get |
| Hale County | 01065 | AL | 2021-09 | 15.9k | 43.8 MB | Get |
| Jackson County | 01071 | AL | 2018-08 | 46.8k | 54.2 MB | Get |
| Jackson County | 01071 | AL | 2017-09 | 47.9k | 45.5 MB | Get |
| Jefferson County | 01073 | AL | 2023-11 | 405k | 553 MB | Get |
| Jefferson County | 01073 | AL | 2023-01 | 395k | 839 MB | Get |
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.