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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson County | 01073 | AL | 2021-01 | 390k | 774 MB | Get |
| Jefferson County | 01073 | AL | 2019-08 | 389k | 814 MB | Get |
| Jefferson County | 01073 | AL | 2018-05 | 384k | 680 MB | Get |
| Jefferson County | 01073 | AL | 2016-08 | 379k | 613 MB | Get |
| Lauderdale County | 01077 | AL | 2017-10 | 62.0k | 81.1 MB | Get |
| Lawrence County | 01079 | AL | 2023-10 | 27.6k | 45.3 MB | Get |
| Lawrence County | 01079 | AL | 2018-09 | 25.5k | 31.4 MB | Get |
| Lee County | 01081 | AL | 2023-07 | 70.4k | 86.8 MB | Get |
| Lee County | 01081 | AL | 2021-10 | 68.7k | 86.3 MB | Get |
| Lee County | 01081 | AL | 2018-02 | 14.4k | 16.0 MB | Get |
| Limestone County | 01083 | AL | 2023-07 | 66.4k | 74.1 MB | Get |
| Limestone County | 01083 | AL | 2019-08 | 57.3k | 57.9 MB | Get |
| Limestone County | 01083 | AL | 2017-02 | 52.4k | 57.7 MB | Get |
| Lowndes County | 01085 | AL | 2018-03 | 13.2k | 15.8 MB | Get |
| Macon County | 01087 | AL | 2023-10 | 24.5k | 55.4 MB | Get |
| Madison County | 01089 | AL | 2017-08 | 177k | 242 MB | Get |
| Marengo County | 01091 | AL | 2024-02 | 24.1k | 37.8 MB | Get |
| Marengo County | 01091 | AL | 2020-04 | 23.7k | 37.5 MB | Get |
| Marengo County | 01091 | AL | 2018-03 | 23.6k | 38.0 MB | Get |
| Marion County | 01093 | AL | 2023-04 | 29.6k | 47.4 MB | Get |
| Marion County | 01093 | AL | 2018-09 | 29.3k | 46.0 MB | Get |
| Marshall County | 01095 | AL | 2023-10 | 63.2k | 548 MB | Get |
| Marshall County | 01095 | AL | 2021-09 | 62.5k | 547 MB | Get |
| Mobile County | 01097 | AL | 2021-04 | 212k | 185 MB | Get |
| Mobile County | 01097 | AL | 2018-03 | 207k | 224 MB | Get |
| Monroe County | 01099 | AL | 2024-01 | 26.2k | 44.9 MB | Get |
| Monroe County | 01099 | AL | 2018-03 | 26.7k | 61.2 MB | Get |
| Montgomery County | 01101 | AL | 2023-09 | 106k | 143 MB | Get |
| Montgomery County | 01101 | AL | 2021-08 | 110k | 148 MB | Get |
| Montgomery County | 01101 | AL | 2017-10 | 107k | 96.8 MB | Get |
| Morgan County | 01103 | AL | 2018-09 | 81.0k | 426 MB | Get |
| Perry County | 01105 | AL | 2021-09 | 12.3k | 28.5 MB | Get |
| Pickens County | 01107 | AL | 2023-05 | 24.5k | 30.3 MB | Get |
| Pike County | 01109 | AL | 2024-04 | 25.1k | 47.2 MB | Get |
| Pike County | 01109 | AL | 2024-01 | 25.1k | 39.7 MB | Get |
| Pike County | 01109 | AL | 2018-01 | 23.7k | 29.4 MB | Get |
| Randolph County | 01111 | AL | 2018-01 | 28.7k | 33.0 MB | Get |
| Randolph County | 01111 | AL | 2018-01 | 28.7k | 33.0 MB | Get |
| Randolph County | 01111 | AL | 2015-10 | 28.8k | 30.4 MB | Get |
| Russell County | 01113 | AL | 2021-09 | 33.7k | 36.7 MB | Get |
| Russell County | 01113 | AL | 2018-02 | 21.3k | 20.6 MB | Get |
| Russell County | 01113 | AL | 2018-01 | 35.4k | 39.1 MB | Get |
| Shelby County | 01117 | AL | 2022-11 | 101k | 173 MB | Get |
| Shelby County | 01117 | AL | 2022-10 | 103k | 106 MB | Get |
| Shelby County | 01117 | AL | 2021-08 | 98.8k | 186 MB | Get |
| Shelby County | 01117 | AL | 2020-09 | 99.9k | 104 MB | Get |
| Shelby County | 01117 | AL | 2018-01 | 95.5k | 180 MB | Get |
| Shelby County | 01117 | AL | 2016-11 | 95.4k | 103 MB | Get |
| Sumter County | 01119 | AL | 2021-09 | 16.5k | 17.1 MB | Get |
| Sumter County | 01119 | AL | 2018-03 | 16.4k | 16.8 MB | Get |
| Talladega County | 01121 | AL | 2023-01 | 56.0k | 80.5 MB | Get |
| Talladega County | 01121 | AL | 2020-09 | 55.3k | 70.8 MB | Get |
| Talladega County | 01121 | AL | 2018-01 | 52.0k | 66.5 MB | Get |
| Tallapoosa County | 01123 | AL | 2021-07 | 40.9k | 64.4 MB | Get |
| Tallapoosa County | 01123 | AL | 2018-01 | 41.3k | 65.2 MB | Get |
| Tuscaloosa County | 01125 | AL | 2023-06 | 112k | 108 MB | Get |
| Tuscaloosa County | 01125 | AL | 2021-08 | 110k | 105 MB | Get |
| Walker County | 01127 | AL | 2023-07 | 59.9k | 111 MB | Get |
| Walker County | 01127 | AL | 2018-09 | 58.3k | 107 MB | Get |
| Washington County | 01129 | AL | 2021-06 | 27.0k | 43.1 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.