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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lehigh County | 42077 | PA | 2022-03 | 133k | 150 MB | Get |
| Lehigh County | 42077 | PA | 2021-01 | 133k | 68.4 MB | Get |
| Lehigh County | 42077 | PA | 2018-06 | 132k | 163 MB | Get |
| Lehigh County | 42077 | PA | 2016-04 | 131k | 165 MB | Get |
| Luzerne County | 42079 | PA | 2024-02 | 176k | 154 MB | Get |
| Luzerne County | 42079 | PA | 2022-09 | 199k | 218 MB | Get |
| Luzerne County | 42079 | PA | 2022-03 | 177k | 160 MB | Get |
| Luzerne County | 42079 | PA | 2021-01 | 177k | 160 MB | Get |
| Lycoming County | 42081 | PA | 2022-03 | 51.2k | 66.0 MB | Get |
| McKean County | 42083 | PA | 2022-04 | 27.6k | 32.3 MB | Get |
| Mercer County | 42085 | PA | 2023-04 | 57.0k | 45.2 MB | Get |
| Mercer County | 42085 | PA | 2022-01 | 57.7k | 44.4 MB | Get |
| Mercer County | 42085 | PA | 2022-01 | 57.7k | 31.4 MB | Get |
| Mercer County | 42085 | PA | 2018-12 | 57.5k | 50.1 MB | Get |
| Mercer County | 42085 | PA | 2017-07 | 57.5k | 41.5 MB | Get |
| Mercer County | 42085 | PA | 2017-07 | 57.5k | 41.5 MB | Get |
| Mifflin County | 42087 | PA | 2022-03 | 24.4k | 26.0 MB | Get |
| Monroe County | 42089 | PA | 2024-03 | 107k | 79.0 MB | Get |
| Monroe County | 42089 | PA | 2022-03 | 107k | 79.1 MB | Get |
| Monroe County | 42089 | PA | 2021-01 | 110k | 80.2 MB | Get |
| Monroe County | 42089 | PA | 2020-04 | 110k | 102 MB | Get |
| Monroe County | 42089 | PA | 2020-04 | 110k | 103 MB | Get |
| Montgomery County | 42091 | PA | 2023-05 | 308k | 346 MB | Get |
| Montgomery County | 42091 | PA | 2022-04 | 305k | 342 MB | Get |
| Montgomery County | 42091 | PA | 2017-07 | 325k | 295 MB | Get |
| Montgomery County | 42091 | PA | 2016-04 | 216k | 143 MB | Get |
| Montour County | 42093 | PA | 2022-04 | 9.0k | 13.8 MB | Get |
| Montour County | 42093 | PA | 2019-03 | 8.9k | 10.9 MB | Get |
| Northampton County | 42095 | PA | 2024-01 | 122k | 100 MB | Get |
| Northampton County | 42095 | PA | 2023-05 | 122k | 100 MB | Get |
| Northampton County | 42095 | PA | 2022-03 | 122k | 99.8 MB | Get |
| Northampton County | 42095 | PA | 2021-01 | 122k | 99.4 MB | Get |
| Northampton County | 42095 | PA | 2016-12 | 131k | 121 MB | Get |
| Northumberland County | 42097 | PA | 2022-03 | 52.4k | 48.8 MB | Get |
| Northumberland County | 42097 | PA | 2021-02 | 52.4k | 49.2 MB | Get |
| Perry County | 42099 | PA | 2022-04 | 21.9k | 54.5 MB | Get |
| Philadelphia County | 42101 | PA | 2022-02 | 606k | 638 MB | Get |
| Philadelphia County | 42101 | PA | 2016-10 | 546k | 347 MB | Get |
| Pike County | 42103 | PA | 2023-09 | 63.1k | 55.7 MB | Get |
| Pike County | 42103 | PA | 2022-03 | 63.2k | 55.4 MB | Get |
| Pike County | 42103 | PA | 2021-01 | 63.3k | 54.8 MB | Get |
| Pike County | 42103 | PA | 2019-09 | 63.3k | 55.3 MB | Get |
| Potter County | 42105 | PA | 2022-03 | 18.6k | 34.5 MB | Get |
| Potter County | 42105 | PA | 2017-11 | 18.8k | 36.5 MB | Get |
| Schuylkill County | 42107 | PA | 2022-09 | 89.9k | 78.3 MB | Get |
| Schuylkill County | 42107 | PA | 2022-03 | 89.9k | 67.6 MB | Get |
| Schuylkill County | 42107 | PA | 2021-01 | 89.9k | 67.7 MB | Get |
| Snyder County | 42109 | PA | 2022-03 | 24.1k | 20.5 MB | Get |
| Snyder County | 42109 | PA | 2020-08 | 24.0k | 20.2 MB | Get |
| Somerset County | 42111 | PA | 2022-03 | 56.8k | 58.7 MB | Get |
| Somerset County | 42111 | PA | 2019-03 | 54.8k | 53.2 MB | Get |
| Somerset County | 42111 | PA | 2017-10 | 54.8k | 43.9 MB | Get |
| Somerset County | 42111 | PA | 2017-06 | 54.8k | 42.8 MB | Get |
| Somerset County | 42111 | PA | 2016-09 | 59.0k | 50.6 MB | Get |
| Sullivan County | 42113 | PA | 2022-04 | 8.7k | 18.5 MB | Get |
| Sullivan County | 42113 | PA | 2021-01 | 8.7k | 19.4 MB | Get |
| Susquehanna County | 42115 | PA | 2024-05 | 28.4k | 46.8 MB | Get |
| Susquehanna County | 42115 | PA | 2022-03 | 28.4k | 46.7 MB | Get |
| Susquehanna County | 42115 | PA | 2021-01 | 28.4k | 73.3 MB | Get |
| Susquehanna County | 42115 | PA | 2016-02 | 30.7k | 20.6 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.