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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley County | 45015 | SC | 2022-10 | 108k | 99.1 MB | Get |
| Berkeley County | 45015 | SC | 2021-09 | 104k | 97.0 MB | Get |
| Berkeley County | 45015 | SC | 2017-06 | 92.8k | 93.1 MB | Get |
| Calhoun County | 45017 | SC | 2024-01 | 13.5k | 19.8 MB | Get |
| Calhoun County | 45017 | SC | 2024-01 | 13.5k | 17.0 MB | Get |
| Calhoun County | 45017 | SC | 2022-10 | 13.4k | 12.4 MB | Get |
| Calhoun County | 45017 | SC | 2019-09 | 13.1k | 13.5 MB | Get |
| Calhoun County | 45017 | SC | 2017-10 | 13.0k | 13.0 MB | Get |
| Calhoun County | 45017 | SC | 2016-12 | 12.7k | 11.5 MB | Get |
| Charleston County | 45019 | SC | 2022-10 | 193k | 495 MB | Get |
| Charleston County | 45019 | SC | 2020-08 | 190k | 473 MB | Get |
| Charleston County | 45019 | SC | 2018-05 | 186k | 519 MB | Get |
| Charleston County | 45019 | SC | 2017-06 | 184k | 507 MB | Get |
| Cherokee County | 45021 | SC | 2024-01 | 32.6k | 194 MB | Get |
| Cherokee County | 45021 | SC | 2023-02 | 37.7k | 212 MB | Get |
| Cherokee County | 45021 | SC | 2017-08 | 33.1k | 267 MB | Get |
| Cherokee County | 45021 | SC | 2016-12 | 34.3k | 268 MB | Get |
| Chester County | 45023 | SC | 2024-01 | 21.3k | 62.1 MB | Get |
| Chester County | 45023 | SC | 2022-04 | 21.2k | 48.1 MB | Get |
| Chester County | 45023 | SC | 2021-10 | 21.2k | 45.3 MB | Get |
| Chester County | 45023 | SC | 2019-01 | 21.0k | 38.9 MB | Get |
| Chester County | 45023 | SC | 2016-12 | 23.3k | 42.7 MB | Get |
| Chesterfield County | 45025 | SC | 2024-01 | 32.2k | 51.0 MB | Get |
| Chesterfield County | 45025 | SC | 2023-03 | 35.0k | 25.1 MB | Get |
| Chesterfield County | 45025 | SC | 2019-07 | 34.9k | 25.2 MB | Get |
| Chesterfield County | 45025 | SC | 2017-01 | 31.3k | 31.1 MB | Get |
| Clarendon County | 45027 | SC | 2024-01 | 28.7k | 60.5 MB | Get |
| Clarendon County | 45027 | SC | 2020-12 | 30.0k | 29.7 MB | Get |
| Clarendon County | 45027 | SC | 2018-05 | 30.0k | 25.8 MB | Get |
| Clarendon County | 45027 | SC | 2016-12 | 28.1k | 30.1 MB | Get |
| Colleton County | 45029 | SC | 2017-12 | 31.3k | 28.1 MB | Get |
| Darlington County | 45031 | SC | 2024-03 | 41.0k | 60.7 MB | Get |
| Darlington County | 45031 | SC | 2022-10 | 40.9k | 52.9 MB | Get |
| Darlington County | 45031 | SC | 2018-05 | 39.8k | 60.0 MB | Get |
| Dillon County | 45033 | SC | 2024-01 | 20.2k | 32.7 MB | Get |
| Dillon County | 45033 | SC | 2022-10 | 24.9k | 15.6 MB | Get |
| Dillon County | 45033 | SC | 2019-07 | 24.9k | 15.8 MB | Get |
| Dillon County | 45033 | SC | 2017-03 | 21.4k | 19.0 MB | Get |
| Dorchester County | 45035 | SC | 2024-06 | 74.0k | 169 MB | Get |
| Dorchester County | 45035 | SC | 2023-12 | 74.0k | 85.1 MB | Get |
| Dorchester County | 45035 | SC | 2022-10 | 72.2k | 81.7 MB | Get |
| Dorchester County | 45035 | SC | 2017-06 | 65.4k | 73.0 MB | Get |
| Edgefield County | 45037 | SC | 2022-10 | 21.7k | 21.8 MB | Get |
| Edgefield County | 45037 | SC | 2018-06 | 17.5k | 13.4 MB | Get |
| Edgefield County | 45037 | SC | 2018-05 | 17.5k | 16.6 MB | Get |
| Fairfield County | 45039 | SC | 2021-08 | 17.8k | 61.6 MB | Get |
| Fairfield County | 45039 | SC | 2019-01 | 17.7k | 55.3 MB | Get |
| Fairfield County | 45039 | SC | 2017-10 | 17.9k | 55.7 MB | Get |
| Fairfield County | 45039 | SC | 2017-10 | 17.9k | 57.4 MB | Get |
| Fairfield County | 45039 | SC | 2016-12 | 17.8k | 56.5 MB | Get |
| Florence County | 45041 | SC | 2022-10 | 82.9k | 93.2 MB | Get |
| Florence County | 45041 | SC | 2019-07 | 75.5k | 94.2 MB | Get |
| Florence County | 45041 | SC | 2018-05 | 75.8k | 94.0 MB | Get |
| Georgetown County | 45043 | SC | 2022-10 | 52.9k | 68.9 MB | Get |
| Georgetown County | 45043 | SC | 2019-06 | 46.3k | 49.4 MB | Get |
| Georgetown County | 45043 | SC | 2018-05 | 46.1k | 50.4 MB | Get |
| Greenville County | 45045 | SC | 2022-10 | 229k | 309 MB | Get |
| Greenville County | 45045 | SC | 2021-02 | 222k | 302 MB | Get |
| Greenville County | 45045 | SC | 2020-07 | 220k | 300 MB | Get |
| Greenville County | 45045 | SC | 2017-05 | 210k | 290 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.