11 attribute fields, profiled from the February 2023 vintage.
Columns in Vermilion Parish
| Field | Type | Filled | Distinct | Example values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| p_num | OFTString | 20.9k | 0, 0, 0 | |
| parcel_id | OFTString | 20.3k | 21519, 10370, 10371 | |
| owner | OFTString | 18.5k | PRIMEAUX, HAROLD JOHN (LANDRY, LINDA), ABERCROMBIE, BILLY DEAN JR, ABRAHAM, REMO THOMAS III DUBEA, DENISE | |
| mail_addr | OFTString | 16.0k | C/O JOHN H. PRIMEAUX CARENCRO, LA 70520, 8738 BETH DR YOUNGSVILLE, LA 70592, 5725 EAGLE PASS DR YOUNGSVILLE, LA 70592 | |
| situs | OFTString | 14.3k | 0 , 0 ,, 8738 BETH DR ,, 5725 EAGLE PASS DR , | |
| legal | OFTString | 16.6k | 4.18 AC IN SW/4 SEC 2 T 11 R 2 E TRACT 6 94-3830, 4.521 AC IN NE/4 OF SEC 22 T 12 R 4 E 867-167, .643 AC BEING A POR OF TRACT 9 LITTLE FARMS S/D 2011012145 | |
| grpid | OFTString | 20.3k | 21519, 10370, 10371 | |
| geog | OFTString | — | ||
| ppid | OFTString | 20.5k | 21519, 0, 0 | |
| situs_alt | OFTString | 13.9k | 2510 VETERANS MEMORIAL DRIVE, 1412 S STATE STREET, 0 KAPLAN-FORKED ISLAND HWY | |
| legal_alt | OFTString | 20.4k | 4.521 AC IN NE/4 OF SEC 22 T 12 R 4 E 867-167, .643 AC BEING A POR OF TRACT 9 LITTLE FARMS S/D 2011012145, 3.00 AC IN SE/4 OF SEC 11 T 12 R 4 E 205-13658 IMP |
Why this differs from the next county over
There is no national parcel schema. Every assessor's office built its own, usually decades ago, usually inside whatever CAMA system it bought at the time. One county's owner column is OWNER_NAME, the next one's is own1, and a third splits it across four fields. Shapefile's ten-character DBF limit truncated a generation of them into things like TOTLNDVAL.
Nothing here is renamed or remapped. The columns above are exactly what is in the file, because a normalisation layer that quietly guesses wrong is worse than no normalisation at all — and every guess it makes is one you cannot audit.
The Filled column is the share of rows with a real value. Placeholder text such as n/a counts as empty; a column that is 100% present but 90% placeholder is a column that will disappoint you, and the profiler treats it accordingly.