14 attribute fields, profiled from the November 2016 vintage.
Columns in Shelby County
| Field | Type | Filled | Distinct | Example values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARCEL_TYP | OFTReal | 1 | 1.0, 1.0, 1.0 | |
| CALC_ACRE | OFTReal | 50.0k | 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 | |
| MAP | OFTString | 1.5k | 103B, 103B, 104B | |
| PARCELID | OFTString | 50.0k | L0159 00587, L0159 00588, B0158 00966 | |
| PARCEL_ID | OFTString | 50.0k | L0159 00587, L0159 00588, B0158 00966 | |
| PID | OFTString | 50.0k | L0159 00587, L0159 00588, B0158 00966 | |
| OWNER | OFTString | 50.0k | BANK OF FAYETTE COUNTY, CARPELLO FAMILY TRUST, WOLF LAKE HOLDINGS LLC | |
| CAREOF | OFTString | 4.0k | JOE P SMITH, GOOD EARTH, RIALTO CAPITAL --- ALEXANDRE GORENSTEIN | |
| MAIL_ADDR1 | OFTString | 50.0k | PO BOX 519, 324 S BREA BLVD, 4728 SPOTTSWOOD AVE STE 207 | |
| MAIL_ADDR2 | OFTString | 2.2k | ROSSVILLE, BREA, MEMPHIS | |
| SITUS | OFTString | 50.0k | 2998 CANADA RD, 9986 US HIGHWAY 64 RD, 8370 WOLF LAKE DR | |
| ACRES | OFTString | 2.7k | 16.9600, 0.8631, 3.3420 | |
| TOTVAL | OFTString | 6.1k | 747,840, 177,520, 612,640 | |
| CLASS | OFTString | 6 | COMMERCIAL, COMMERCIAL, COMMERCIAL |
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.