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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Putnam County | 36079 | NY | 2019-07 | 43.5k | 64.8 MB | Get |
| Saratoga County | 36091 | NY | 2022-06 | 101k | 83.0 MB | Get |
| Schenectady County | 36093 | NY | 2022-07 | 59.2k | 38.3 MB | Get |
| Schoharie County | 36095 | NY | 2023-11 | 23.1k | 27.9 MB | Get |
| Schuyler County | 36097 | NY | 2019-07 | 12.8k | 17.0 MB | Get |
| Seneca County | 36099 | NY | 2024-01 | 17.7k | 22.9 MB | Get |
| Seneca County | 36099 | NY | 2022-12 | 17.7k | 19.8 MB | Get |
| Suffolk County | 36103 | NY | 2023-08 | 904k | 562 MB | Get |
| Suffolk County | 36103 | NY | 2023-07 | 576k | 337 MB | Get |
| Washington County | 36115 | NY | 2022-06 | 35.3k | 42.2 MB | Get |
| Wayne County | 36117 | NY | 2023-09 | 44.1k | 72.7 MB | Get |
| Wayne County | 36117 | NY | 2020-02 | 45.6k | 56.5 MB | Get |
| Westchester County | 36119 | NY | 2019-07 | 252k | 294 MB | Get |
| Wyoming County | 36121 | NY | 2022-07 | 23.3k | 24.1 MB | Get |
| Wyoming County | 36121 | NY | 2020-02 | 23.1k | 22.3 MB | Get |
| Yates County | 36123 | NY | 2024-08 | 15.8k | 21.5 MB | Get |
| Yates County | 36123 | NY | 2023-09 | 15.9k | 21.3 MB | Get |
| Yates County | 36123 | NY | 2019-07 | 15.7k | 17.9 MB | Get |
| Alamance County | 37001 | NC | 2023-04 | 75.3k | 119 MB | Get |
| Anson County | 37007 | NC | 2023-11 | 18.9k | 22.9 MB | Get |
| Anson County | 37007 | NC | 2023-07 | 18.9k | 23.0 MB | Get |
| Beaufort County | 37013 | NC | 2023-04 | 44.9k | 88.4 MB | Get |
| Bertie County | 37015 | NC | 2023-12 | 18.7k | 29.7 MB | Get |
| Bertie County | 37015 | NC | 2023-06 | 18.7k | 29.7 MB | Get |
| Brunswick County | 37019 | NC | 2021-02 | 145k | 191 MB | Get |
| Burke County | 37023 | NC | 2022-05 | 59.1k | 55.6 MB | Get |
| Caldwell County | 37027 | NC | 2022-05 | 52.5k | 71.4 MB | Get |
| Caldwell County | 37027 | NC | 2021-09 | 52.4k | 71.3 MB | Get |
| Caswell County | 37033 | NC | 2021-06 | 16.9k | 17.8 MB | Get |
| Chatham County | 37037 | NC | 2023-04 | 47.2k | 70.2 MB | Get |
| Chowan County | 37041 | NC | 2022-03 | 12.8k | 17.3 MB | Get |
| Craven County | 37049 | NC | 2023-05 | 58.8k | 79.0 MB | Get |
| Craven County | 37049 | NC | 2021-02 | 58.7k | 75.2 MB | Get |
| Duplin County | 37061 | NC | 2021-02 | 41.9k | 55.8 MB | Get |
| Franklin County | 37069 | NC | 2021-02 | 45.2k | 72.9 MB | Get |
| Guilford County | 37081 | NC | 2023-03 | 218k | 203 MB | Get |
| Hoke County | 37093 | NC | 2023-10 | 27.5k | 24.4 MB | Get |
| Hyde County | 37095 | NC | 2024-01 | 7.7k | 28.8 MB | Get |
| Mecklenburg County | 37119 | NC | 2022-04 | 422k | 463 MB | Get |
| Moore County | 37125 | NC | 2023-10 | 74.2k | 112 MB | Get |
| Richmond County | 37153 | NC | 2023-10 | 32.4k | 56.9 MB | Get |
| Sampson County | 37163 | NC | 2023-03 | 50.0k | 76.0 MB | Get |
| Scotland County | 37165 | NC | 2023-10 | 21.8k | 24.8 MB | Get |
| Union County | 37179 | NC | 2022-04 | 107k | 93.5 MB | Get |
| Vance County | 37181 | NC | 2023-03 | 26.3k | 39.5 MB | Get |
| Wake County | 37183 | NC | 2021-02 | 386k | 471 MB | Get |
| Yancey County | 37199 | NC | 2022-08 | 16.9k | 25.7 MB | Get |
| Adams County | 38001 | ND | 2022-08 | 3.8k | 4.2 MB | Get |
| Barnes County | 38003 | ND | 2021-04 | 11.2k | 10.6 MB | Get |
| Billings County | 38007 | ND | 2017-09 | 3.3k | 3.9 MB | Get |
| Bottineau County | 38009 | ND | 2018-12 | 17.8k | 14.4 MB | Get |
| Burke County | 38013 | ND | 2017-09 | 8.3k | 6.1 MB | Get |
| Cavalier County | 38019 | ND | 2022-08 | 15.5k | 14.2 MB | Get |
| Divide County | 38023 | ND | 2017-08 | 8.5k | 6.6 MB | Get |
| Divide County | 38023 | ND | 2015-09 | 8.5k | 7.5 MB | Get |
| Dunn County | 38025 | ND | 2020-12 | 22.8k | 11.2 MB | Get |
| Dunn County | 38025 | ND | 2017-09 | 21.2k | 9.8 MB | Get |
| Dunn County | 38025 | ND | 2015-05 | 20.5k | 8.1 MB | Get |
| Emmons County | 38029 | ND | 2022-08 | 9.8k | 9.3 MB | Get |
| Foster County | 38031 | ND | 2022-08 | 3.4k | 3.4 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.