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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johnson County | 48251 | TX | 2023-10 | 97.5k | 78.5 MB | Get |
| Johnson County | 48251 | TX | 2022-06 | 90.5k | 96.3 MB | Get |
| Johnson County | 48251 | TX | 2019-06 | 82.4k | 78.4 MB | Get |
| Johnson County | 48251 | TX | 2018-09 | 81.1k | 79.3 MB | Get |
| Jones County | 48253 | TX | 2024-05 | 27.5k | 19.6 MB | Get |
| Jones County | 48253 | TX | 2023-01 | 27.4k | 19.4 MB | Get |
| Karnes County | 48255 | TX | 2018-02 | 13.8k | 12.0 MB | Get |
| Karnes County | 48255 | TX | 2016-11 | 11.7k | 10.4 MB | Get |
| Kaufman County | 48257 | TX | 2019-03 | 65.9k | 52.1 MB | Get |
| Kenedy County | 48261 | TX | 2018-03 | 434 | 1008 KB | Get |
| Kerr County | 48265 | TX | 2017-07 | 36.1k | 42.5 MB | Get |
| Kimble County | 48267 | TX | 2017-07 | 9.0k | 19.0 MB | Get |
| Kimble County | 48267 | TX | 2017-05 | 9.0k | 19.1 MB | Get |
| Kinney County | 48271 | TX | 2024-04 | 10.6k | 10.9 MB | Get |
| Kleberg County | 48273 | TX | 2023-06 | 14.7k | 16.8 MB | Get |
| Kleberg County | 48273 | TX | 2018-08 | 14.4k | 15.7 MB | Get |
| Kleberg County | 48273 | TX | 2016-10 | 14.4k | 15.7 MB | Get |
| Knox County | 48275 | TX | 2023-01 | 6.4k | 6.5 MB | Get |
| Lamar County | 48277 | TX | 2018-10 | 34.7k | 34.3 MB | Get |
| Lamb County | 48279 | TX | 2020-09 | 13.9k | 8.1 MB | Get |
| Lampasas County | 48281 | TX | 2018-06 | 16.1k | 10.7 MB | Get |
| Lavaca County | 48285 | TX | 2017-12 | 19.1k | 17.0 MB | Get |
| Lee County | 48287 | TX | 2017-08 | 14.1k | 16.0 MB | Get |
| Leon County | 48289 | TX | 2023-07 | 26.8k | 23.3 MB | Get |
| Leon County | 48289 | TX | 2021-11 | 24.3k | 16.7 MB | Get |
| Leon County | 48289 | TX | 2021-01 | 16.4k | 12.2 MB | Get |
| Leon County | 48289 | TX | 2019-12 | 16.4k | 12.2 MB | Get |
| Leon County | 48289 | TX | 2018-06 | 16.4k | 12.1 MB | Get |
| Liberty County | 48291 | TX | 2023-05 | 143k | 115 MB | Get |
| Liberty County | 48291 | TX | 2018-02 | 113k | 74.5 MB | Get |
| Limestone County | 48293 | TX | 2021-07 | 21.9k | 20.0 MB | Get |
| Limestone County | 48293 | TX | 2018-03 | 12.9k | 24.6 MB | Get |
| Limestone County | 48293 | TX | 2016-04 | 21.5k | 30.7 MB | Get |
| Live Oak County | 48297 | TX | 2020-01 | 16.1k | 13.1 MB | Get |
| Live Oak County | 48297 | TX | 2018-04 | 15.4k | 12.5 MB | Get |
| Llano County | 48299 | TX | 2017-08 | 37.7k | 41.4 MB | Get |
| Loving County | 48301 | TX | 2024-03 | 1.9k | 2.6 MB | Get |
| Loving County | 48301 | TX | 2023-02 | 1.9k | 2.6 MB | Get |
| Loving County | 48301 | TX | 2023-01 | 1.9k | 2.6 MB | Get |
| Loving County | 48301 | TX | 2022-05 | 1.9k | 2.8 MB | Get |
| Loving County | 48301 | TX | 2021-09 | 1.9k | 2.5 MB | Get |
| Loving County | 48301 | TX | 2020-04 | 1.9k | 1.5 MB | Get |
| Loving County | 48301 | TX | 2019-03 | 1.9k | 3.5 MB | Get |
| Loving County | 48301 | TX | 2018-05 | 1.9k | 2.6 MB | Get |
| Loving County | 48301 | TX | 2017-10 | 1.9k | 2.8 MB | Get |
| Loving County | 48301 | TX | 2017-02 | 2.5k | 2.9 MB | Get |
| Lubbock County | 48303 | TX | 2022-02 | 125k | 151 MB | Get |
| Lubbock County | 48303 | TX | 2017-09 | 116k | 129 MB | Get |
| Madison County | 48313 | TX | 2019-12 | 9.7k | 9.9 MB | Get |
| Madison County | 48313 | TX | 2018-09 | 9.6k | 9.8 MB | Get |
| Marion County | 48315 | TX | 2022-02 | 18.2k | 18.2 MB | Get |
| Marion County | 48315 | TX | 2018-08 | 18.7k | 11.0 MB | Get |
| Martin County | 48317 | TX | 2023-08 | 6.9k | 5.0 MB | Get |
| Martin County | 48317 | TX | 2023-03 | 6.8k | 5.0 MB | Get |
| Martin County | 48317 | TX | 2021-04 | 6.8k | 4.8 MB | Get |
| Martin County | 48317 | TX | 2020-04 | 6.5k | 4.4 MB | Get |
| Martin County | 48317 | TX | 2019-03 | 6.4k | 5.2 MB | Get |
| Martin County | 48317 | TX | 2018-04 | 6.4k | 4.7 MB | Get |
| Matagorda County | 48321 | TX | 2018-03 | 36.3k | 33.4 MB | Get |
| McCulloch County | 48307 | TX | 2017-08 | 9.4k | 9.1 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.