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.
Reads it QGISArcGIS ProGeoPandasGDAL/OGRPostGIS shp2pgsql
Counties available as Shapefile
| County | GEOID | State | Vintage | Parcels | Size | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Petersburg city | 51730 | VA | 2022-08 | 14.9k | 11.6 MB | Get |
| Pittsylvania County | 51143 | VA | 2020-08 | 81.2k | 113 MB | Get |
| Portsmouth city | 51740 | VA | 2017-05 | 36.5k | 34.1 MB | Get |
| Portsmouth city | 51740 | VA | 2017-05 | 36.5k | 30.0 MB | Get |
| Prince George County | 51149 | VA | 2023-10 | 14.1k | 23.8 MB | Get |
| Prince George County | 51149 | VA | 2023-10 | 14.1k | 23.8 MB | Get |
| Rappahannock County | 51157 | VA | 2021-04 | 6.0k | 6.5 MB | Get |
| Russell County | 51167 | VA | 2020-10 | 33.1k | 29.4 MB | Get |
| Spotsylvania County | 51177 | VA | 2022-08 | 67.3k | 93.1 MB | Get |
| Spotsylvania County | 51177 | VA | 2021-04 | 66.2k | 92.2 MB | Get |
| Stafford County | 51179 | VA | 2021-01 | 59.3k | 78.6 MB | Get |
| Suffolk city | 51800 | VA | 2017-05 | 40.5k | 60.5 MB | Get |
| Surry County | 51181 | VA | 2020-01 | 6.7k | 12.5 MB | Get |
| Sussex County | 51183 | VA | 2022-08 | 10.6k | 15.2 MB | Get |
| Tazewell County | 51185 | VA | 2021-05 | 31.9k | 44.4 MB | Get |
| Wythe County | 51197 | VA | 2024-03 | 28.9k | 108 MB | Get |
| York County | 51199 | VA | 2022-08 | 27.8k | 54.9 MB | Get |
| York County | 51199 | VA | 2020-01 | 27.3k | 52.8 MB | Get |
| York County | 51199 | VA | 2017-05 | 26.8k | 54.7 MB | Get |
| Adams County | 53001 | WA | 2017-11 | 12.7k | 9.0 MB | Get |
| Clark County | 53011 | WA | 2022-01 | 186k | 115 MB | Get |
| Cowlitz County | 53015 | WA | 2022-02 | 56.3k | 51.0 MB | Get |
| Ferry County | 53019 | WA | 2015-11 | 12.4k | 11.2 MB | Get |
| Franklin County | 53021 | WA | 2018-02 | 29.6k | 21.2 MB | Get |
| Franklin County | 53021 | WA | 2017-11 | 29.6k | 20.2 MB | Get |
| King County | 53033 | WA | 2023-02 | 628k | 840 MB | Get |
| King County | 53033 | WA | 2015-11 | 609k | 555 MB | Get |
| Lewis County | 53041 | WA | 2023-02 | 57.3k | 42.9 MB | Get |
| Lewis County | 53041 | WA | 2020-09 | 57.0k | 42.4 MB | Get |
| Lewis County | 53041 | WA | 2015-11 | 54.0k | 41.5 MB | Get |
| Lincoln County | 53043 | WA | 2017-07 | 31.1k | 17.0 MB | Get |
| Pierce County | 53053 | WA | 2024-05 | 10.7k | 13.4 MB | Get |
| Pierce County | 53053 | WA | 2024-05 | 336k | 328 MB | Get |
| Pierce County | 53053 | WA | 2022-02 | 333k | 358 MB | Get |
| Pierce County | 53053 | WA | 2015-11 | 305k | 276 MB | Get |
| Spokane County | 53063 | WA | 2022-01 | 208k | 319 MB | Get |
| Spokane County | 53063 | WA | 2017-07 | 202k | 254 MB | Get |
| Stevens County | 53065 | WA | 2023-05 | 48.5k | 56.1 MB | Get |
| Stevens County | 53065 | WA | 2015-11 | 75.0k | 75.8 MB | Get |
| Thurston County | 53067 | WA | 2022-02 | 121k | 115 MB | Get |
| Thurston County | 53067 | WA | 2015-11 | 115k | 143 MB | Get |
| Whatcom County | 53073 | WA | 2022-08 | 115k | 165 MB | Get |
| Yakima County | 53077 | WA | 2015-11 | 104k | 119 MB | Get |
| Braxton County | 54007 | WV | 2018-01 | 9.8k | 9.5 MB | Get |
| Calhoun County | 54013 | WV | 2017-11 | 7.4k | 7.8 MB | Get |
| Doddridge County | 54017 | WV | 2019-07 | 7.9k | 12.9 MB | Get |
| Fayette County | 54019 | WV | 2019-09 | 39.2k | 75.5 MB | Get |
| Gilmer County | 54021 | WV | 2018-01 | 7.6k | 14.8 MB | Get |
| Hancock County | 54029 | WV | 2017-03 | 21.2k | 30.3 MB | Get |
| Harrison County | 54033 | WV | 2021-05 | 54.5k | 54.8 MB | Get |
| Jackson County | 54035 | WV | 2021-09 | 20.0k | 31.7 MB | Get |
| Kanawha County | 54039 | WV | 2019-09 | 118k | 127 MB | Get |
| Lewis County | 54041 | WV | 2020-05 | 15.9k | 32.8 MB | Get |
| Lincoln County | 54043 | WV | 2017-05 | 17.2k | 28.3 MB | Get |
| Logan County | 54045 | WV | 2017-12 | 9.0k | 10.0 MB | Get |
| Marion County | 54049 | WV | 2018-07 | 39.5k | 33.1 MB | Get |
| Marion County | 54049 | WV | 2017-06 | 38.5k | 31.1 MB | Get |
| Marshall County | 54051 | WV | 2017-06 | 23.7k | 30.6 MB | Get |
| Mason County | 54053 | WV | 2021-09 | 21.0k | 32.5 MB | Get |
| McDowell County | 54047 | WV | 2022-01 | 30.0k | 41.2 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.