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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenwood County | 45047 | SC | 2023-10 | 38.3k | 56.1 MB | Get |
| Greenwood County | 45047 | SC | 2021-04 | 37.8k | 55.2 MB | Get |
| Greenwood County | 45047 | SC | 2018-05 | 37.3k | 54.2 MB | Get |
| Hampton County | 45049 | SC | 2024-01 | 14.9k | 36.6 MB | Get |
| Hampton County | 45049 | SC | 2022-10 | 14.9k | 26.7 MB | Get |
| Hampton County | 45049 | SC | 2017-12 | 15.5k | 15.5 MB | Get |
| Horry County | 45051 | SC | 2024-05 | 275k | 407 MB | Get |
| Horry County | 45051 | SC | 2023-10 | 275k | 241 MB | Get |
| Horry County | 45051 | SC | 2017-03 | 243k | 229 MB | Get |
| Jasper County | 45053 | SC | 2022-09 | 22.4k | 24.9 MB | Get |
| Jasper County | 45053 | SC | 2020-08 | 19.8k | 22.1 MB | Get |
| Jasper County | 45053 | SC | 2017-05 | 19.0k | 17.5 MB | Get |
| Kershaw County | 45055 | SC | 2024-01 | 42.0k | 53.9 MB | Get |
| Kershaw County | 45055 | SC | 2023-03 | 44.0k | 41.2 MB | Get |
| Kershaw County | 45055 | SC | 2021-05 | 44.0k | 40.9 MB | Get |
| Kershaw County | 45055 | SC | 2017-10 | 39.6k | 37.2 MB | Get |
| Kershaw County | 45055 | SC | 2016-12 | 38.7k | 41.9 MB | Get |
| Lancaster County | 45057 | SC | 2024-01 | 52.5k | 105 MB | Get |
| Lancaster County | 45057 | SC | 2023-07 | 57.4k | 62.9 MB | Get |
| Lancaster County | 45057 | SC | 2022-04 | 52.2k | 68.3 MB | Get |
| Lancaster County | 45057 | SC | 2018-01 | 45.7k | 43.0 MB | Get |
| Lancaster County | 45057 | SC | 2016-11 | 47.3k | 49.3 MB | Get |
| Laurens County | 45059 | SC | 2024-02 | 41.3k | 70.0 MB | Get |
| Laurens County | 45059 | SC | 2024-01 | 41.3k | 59.7 MB | Get |
| Laurens County | 45059 | SC | 2023-10 | 41.3k | 51.3 MB | Get |
| Laurens County | 45059 | SC | 2022-10 | 40.8k | 50.4 MB | Get |
| Laurens County | 45059 | SC | 2021-04 | 40.1k | 50.5 MB | Get |
| Laurens County | 45059 | SC | 2017-08 | 38.5k | 42.2 MB | Get |
| Laurens County | 45059 | SC | 2016-01 | 38.6k | 57.4 MB | Get |
| Lee County | 45061 | SC | 2023-03 | 15.4k | 21.3 MB | Get |
| Lee County | 45061 | SC | 2021-08 | 13.5k | 20.5 MB | Get |
| Lee County | 45061 | SC | 2019-01 | 13.6k | 17.0 MB | Get |
| Lexington County | 45063 | SC | 2023-03 | 140k | 190 MB | Get |
| Lexington County | 45063 | SC | 2021-02 | 137k | 154 MB | Get |
| Lexington County | 45063 | SC | 2019-06 | 135k | 153 MB | Get |
| Lexington County | 45063 | SC | 2017-10 | 134k | 151 MB | Get |
| Lexington County | 45063 | SC | 2017-03 | 132k | 154 MB | Get |
| Marion County | 45067 | SC | 2022-10 | 30.0k | 16.0 MB | Get |
| Marion County | 45067 | SC | 2019-01 | 22.9k | 16.0 MB | Get |
| Marlboro County | 45069 | SC | 2022-10 | 29.9k | 13.8 MB | Get |
| Marlboro County | 45069 | SC | 2019-01 | 19.4k | 13.7 MB | Get |
| McCormick County | 45065 | SC | 2024-02 | 11.8k | 17.5 MB | Get |
| McCormick County | 45065 | SC | 2024-01 | 11.8k | 13.9 MB | Get |
| McCormick County | 45065 | SC | 2022-10 | 13.9k | 13.3 MB | Get |
| McCormick County | 45065 | SC | 2018-05 | 13.9k | 13.6 MB | Get |
| Newberry County | 45071 | SC | 2021-04 | 27.0k | 25.3 MB | Get |
| Newberry County | 45071 | SC | 2019-06 | 26.1k | 37.4 MB | Get |
| Newberry County | 45071 | SC | 2017-10 | 26.5k | 38.1 MB | Get |
| Newberry County | 45071 | SC | 2016-01 | 28.7k | 46.8 MB | Get |
| Oconee County | 45073 | SC | 2024-03 | 61.4k | 144 MB | Get |
| Oconee County | 45073 | SC | 2022-10 | 89.7k | 115 MB | Get |
| Oconee County | 45073 | SC | 2018-05 | 58.6k | 53.6 MB | Get |
| Orangeburg County | 45075 | SC | 2023-11 | 61.4k | 56.0 MB | Get |
| Orangeburg County | 45075 | SC | 2022-10 | 60.8k | 56.9 MB | Get |
| Orangeburg County | 45075 | SC | 2017-03 | 59.0k | 51.1 MB | Get |
| Pickens County | 45077 | SC | 2018-05 | 60.2k | 50.1 MB | Get |
| Richland County | 45079 | SC | 2024-02 | 177k | 532 MB | Get |
| Richland County | 45079 | SC | 2024-01 | 177k | 474 MB | Get |
| Richland County | 45079 | SC | 2023-12 | 182k | 496 MB | Get |
| Richland County | 45079 | SC | 2022-10 | 176k | 531 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.