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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clearfield County | 42033 | PA | 2022-03 | 69.5k | 73.2 MB | Get |
| Clearfield County | 42033 | PA | 2019-04 | 69.1k | 73.3 MB | Get |
| Clinton County | 42035 | PA | 2022-03 | 32.9k | 49.8 MB | Get |
| Columbia County | 42037 | PA | 2022-03 | 33.6k | 43.8 MB | Get |
| Columbia County | 42037 | PA | 2021-02 | 33.5k | 43.7 MB | Get |
| Crawford County | 42039 | PA | 2022-01 | 59.0k | 93.2 MB | Get |
| Crawford County | 42039 | PA | 2018-12 | 58.7k | 66.7 MB | Get |
| Cumberland County | 42041 | PA | 2024-05 | 104k | 187 MB | Get |
| Cumberland County | 42041 | PA | 2022-03 | 103k | 123 MB | Get |
| Cumberland County | 42041 | PA | 2019-01 | 101k | 151 MB | Get |
| Dauphin County | 42043 | PA | 2022-04 | 117k | 76.8 MB | Get |
| Delaware County | 42045 | PA | 2023-05 | 208k | 170 MB | Get |
| Delaware County | 42045 | PA | 2022-02 | 207k | 219 MB | Get |
| Delaware County | 42045 | PA | 2019-04 | 207k | 199 MB | Get |
| Delaware County | 42045 | PA | 2017-08 | 207k | 161 MB | Get |
| Delaware County | 42045 | PA | 2016-04 | 207k | 141 MB | Get |
| Elk County | 42047 | PA | 2023-03 | 25.8k | 37.6 MB | Get |
| Elk County | 42047 | PA | 2022-04 | 24.8k | 29.7 MB | Get |
| Elk County | 42047 | PA | 2019-01 | 23.5k | 17.7 MB | Get |
| Erie County | 42049 | PA | 2023-05 | 113k | 159 MB | Get |
| Erie County | 42049 | PA | 2019-02 | 113k | 58.2 MB | Get |
| Fayette County | 42051 | PA | 2023-07 | 76.6k | 45.2 MB | Get |
| Fayette County | 42051 | PA | 2022-04 | 77.3k | 46.6 MB | Get |
| Fayette County | 42051 | PA | 2017-02 | 82.0k | 40.8 MB | Get |
| Fayette County | 42051 | PA | 2015-07 | 82.0k | 42.5 MB | Get |
| Forest County | 42053 | PA | 2022-03 | 11.5k | 16.4 MB | Get |
| Franklin County | 42055 | PA | 2022-03 | 73.4k | 88.3 MB | Get |
| Franklin County | 42055 | PA | 2017-05 | 66.4k | 96.0 MB | Get |
| Fulton County | 42057 | PA | 2022-04 | 11.5k | 12.3 MB | Get |
| Fulton County | 42057 | PA | 2017-06 | 10.5k | 8.4 MB | Get |
| Greene County | 42059 | PA | 2023-05 | 30.1k | 30.4 MB | Get |
| Greene County | 42059 | PA | 2022-04 | 29.2k | 20.2 MB | Get |
| Greene County | 42059 | PA | 2018-12 | 29.2k | 20.3 MB | Get |
| Huntingdon County | 42061 | PA | 2023-03 | 29.8k | 38.1 MB | Get |
| Huntingdon County | 42061 | PA | 2022-03 | 29.7k | 37.9 MB | Get |
| Huntingdon County | 42061 | PA | 2018-11 | 29.5k | 37.7 MB | Get |
| Indiana County | 42063 | PA | 2022-01 | 44.0k | 27.5 MB | Get |
| Indiana County | 42063 | PA | 2020-11 | 44.1k | 40.3 MB | Get |
| Indiana County | 42063 | PA | 2017-12 | 62.3k | 29.9 MB | Get |
| Indiana County | 42063 | PA | 2016-03 | 62.2k | 33.0 MB | Get |
| Jefferson County | 42065 | PA | 2023-05 | 34.4k | 50.5 MB | Get |
| Jefferson County | 42065 | PA | 2021-10 | 34.4k | 45.2 MB | Get |
| Juniata County | 42067 | PA | 2022-03 | 13.5k | 14.2 MB | Get |
| Lackawanna County | 42069 | PA | 2022-05 | 101k | 68.2 MB | Get |
| Lackawanna County | 42069 | PA | 2021-01 | 101k | 99.0 MB | Get |
| Lackawanna County | 42069 | PA | 2017-02 | 101k | 67.6 MB | Get |
| Lancaster County | 42071 | PA | 2022-03 | 190k | 200 MB | Get |
| Lancaster County | 42071 | PA | 2017-06 | 188k | 204 MB | Get |
| Lancaster County | 42071 | PA | 2016-07 | 187k | 216 MB | Get |
| Lancaster County | 42071 | PA | 2016-04 | 205k | 237 MB | Get |
| Lawrence County | 42073 | PA | 2023-07 | 59.0k | 51.6 MB | Get |
| Lawrence County | 42073 | PA | 2022-03 | 59.0k | 51.4 MB | Get |
| Lawrence County | 42073 | PA | 2021-02 | 59.2k | 51.4 MB | Get |
| Lawrence County | 42073 | PA | 2019-06 | 60.6k | 45.5 MB | Get |
| Lawrence County | 42073 | PA | 2018-12 | 61.0k | 43.2 MB | Get |
| Lawrence County | 42073 | PA | 2017-08 | 58.1k | 41.2 MB | Get |
| Lebanon County | 42075 | PA | 2022-03 | 53.4k | 72.8 MB | Get |
| Lebanon County | 42075 | PA | 2018-05 | 52.4k | 50.8 MB | Get |
| Lehigh County | 42077 | PA | 2024-02 | 134k | 142 MB | Get |
| Lehigh County | 42077 | PA | 2023-05 | 134k | 69.4 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.