Parcel Boundaries
Parcel Boundaries contains polygonal property outlines in the U.S.. Parcel boundary data helps users map and analyze property characteristics across an entire area of interest, or conduct sophisticated spatial analysis such as proximity, overlay, and buffer zone operations.
Is Parcel Boundaries right for you?
Answer a few quick questions about your business and your intended use so we can help you determine if the data is a good fit for your use case.
Question 1
Your organization’s needs include
Mapping and analyzing property characteristics
Conducting sophisticated spatial analysis
Proximity, overlay and buffer zone operations
None of the above or other
Question 2
Tax jurisdiction assignments are important to your organization.
Yes
No
Question 3
Your organization responds to outages and must define which customers are serviced by a grid.
Yes
No
Question 4
Geofencing is an important element in your business system.
Yes
No
Question 5
Does the nature of your business requires an ability to map and analyze property characteristics?
Yes
No
Benefits
- Identify property location, centroids and boundaries, for display and spatial analysis
- Quantify risks associated with flood, wildfire, or other hazards to accurately price insurance policies
- Enrich business data by connecting parcel boundaries to additional specific property attributes
- Use geofencing to identify when service vehicles are on the property where services are requested, or when customers are within certain areas for location-based messaging
- Assess damages after catastrophic events by overlaying parcel data on satellite imagery
- Locate retail and site properties for sale and learn more about surrounding geographies
- Improve the accuracy of tax jurisdiction assignments.
- Respond to outages more efficiently by defining which customers are serviced by a grid
Features
- Includes a unique and persistent parcel identifier
- Links to a full array of property attributes
- Contains full property address for applicable parcels
- Provides U.S. Census Bureau block ID for reference to full census information
- Includes standardized and cleansed county assessor parcel numbers
- Quarterly updates include new county additions, existing parcel updates, and address changes
Details
Parcel Boundaries provide polygons with the following attribution:
- Scale = 1:24,000
- Unique parcel identifier
- FIPS and APN
- Census codes for state, county, tract, block group, and block
- Centroid elevation in feet
- Centroid latitude and longitude
- Property primary base street address
- Property unit number
- Property city
- Property state
- Property postal code
- Julian release date
Note: Due to licensing restrictions we are prohibited from distributing parcel boundary polygons in some counties. In these counties we provide the point of the center of the parcel (centroid) instead of the parcel boundary polygons.
Specifications
Coverage
United States
Release schedule
Quarterly
Unit of sale
Country, State, County