25 attribute fields, profiled from the July 2023 vintage.
Columns in Fayette County
| Field | Type | Filled | Distinct | Example values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| taxidnum | OFTString | 50.0k | 17-07-0081, 17-07-0085, 17-07-0086 | |
| taxshort | OFTString | 50.0k | 17070081, 17070085, 17070086 | |
| CALCACRES | OFTReal | 9.3k | 141.75, 3.088, 1.68 | |
| cng | OFTString | 2 | y, y, y | |
| OWN1 | OFTString | 50.0k | HENDERSON CHARLES & CHARLES S, KORTINA PATRICIA A & KRUKOWSKY M, BERKLOVICH JOSHUA T | |
| OWN2 | OFTString | 4.3k | C/O TRUSTEES, C/O MATTHEW URAM, 465 SECOND ST | |
| ADDR_PHYSI | OFTString | 3.6k | 301, 255, 248 | |
| ADDR_PHY_1 | OFTString | 8.9k | GRINDSTONE, GRINDSTONE, GRINDSTONE | |
| ADDR_PHY_2 | OFTString | 121 | RD, RD, RD | |
| ADDR_MAILI | OFTString | 44.9k | 144 WOODS CT, 255 GRINDSTONE ROAD, PO BOX 195 | |
| ADDR_MAI_1 | OFTString | 2.6k | ELIZABETHTOWN KY, GRINDSTONE PA, STAR JUNCTION PA | |
| CITYNAME | OFTString | 9 | MOUNT PLEASANT, ACME, MC KEESPORT | |
| STATE | OFTString | 2 | PA, PA, PA | |
| ZIP1 | OFTString | 2.1k | 42701, 15442, 15482 | |
| ZIP2 | OFTString | 1 | 0751 | |
| BOOK | OFTString | 21.3k | RB655-29, RB2142-2, RB3320-1 | |
| PAGE | OFTString | 14 | 1822, 188, 2464 | |
| map_fronta | OFTReal | 5.8k | 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 | |
| LEGAL1 | OFTString | 25.5k | 141.75 AC, 0.918 AC, 1.687 AC | |
| LEGAL2 | OFTString | 5.2k | MOBILE HOME, R1 2RG, MODULAR | |
| ASSESSED_L | OFTReal | 23 | 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 | |
| ASSESSED_B | OFTReal | 11 | 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 | |
| ASSESSED_T | OFTReal | 24 | 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 | |
| SALEDATE | OFTString | 10.3k | 1986-0926, 1998-0723, 2016-0928 | |
| PRICE | OFTString | 4.4k | 55000, 35000, 7000 |
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.