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Assessor - Parcel Universe

Metadata Updated: September 7, 2025

A complete, historic universe of Cook County parcels with attached geographic, governmental, and spatial data.

When working with Parcel Index Numbers (PINs) make sure to zero-pad them to 14 digits. Some datasets may lose leading zeros for PINs when downloaded.

Additional notes:Non-taxing district data is attached via spatial join (st_contains) to each parcel's centroid. Tax district data (school district, park district, municipality, etc.) are attached by a parcel's assigned tax code. Centroids are based on Cook County parcel shapefiles. Older properties may be missing coordinates and thus also missing attached spatial data (usually they are missing a parcel boundary in the shapefile). Newer properties may be missing a mailing or property address, as they need to be assigned one by the postal service. This dataset contains data for the current tax year, which may not yet be complete or final. Assessed values for any given year are subject to change until review and certification of values by the Cook County Board of Review, though there are a few rare circumstances where values may change for the current or past years after that. Rowcount for a given year is final once the Assessor has certified the assessment roll all townships. Data will be updated monthly. Depending on the time of year, some third-party and internal data will be missing for the most recent year. Assessments mailed this year represent values from last year, so this isn't an issue. By the time the Data Department models values for this year, those data will have populated. Current property class codes, their levels of assessment, and descriptions can be found on the Assessor's website. Note that class codes details can change across time. Due to discrepancies between the systems used by the Assessor and Clerk's offices, tax_district_code is not currently up-to-date in this table. There are currently two different sources of parcel-level municipality available in this data set, and they will not always agree: tax and spatial records. Tax records from the Cook County Clerk indicate the municipality to which a parcel owner pays taxes, while spatial records, also from the Cook County Clerk, indicate the municipal boundaries within which a parcel lies. For more information on the sourcing of attached data and the preparation of this dataset, see the Assessor's Standard Operating Procedures for Open Data on GitHub.

Read about the Assessor's 2025 Open Data Refresh.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date June 4, 2023
Metadata Updated Date September 7, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from cookcountyil json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date June 4, 2023
Metadata Updated Date September 7, 2025
Publisher datacatalog.cookcountyil.gov
Maintainer
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Data First Published 2025-08-29
Data Last Modified 2025-09-01
Category Property & Taxation
Public Access Level public
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://datacatalog.cookcountyil.gov/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 42bf4378-a2a2-4c25-a53c-2bd84f70bd36
Harvest Source Id d52781fd-51ef-4061-9cd2-535a0afb663b
Harvest Source Title cookcountyil json
Homepage URL https://datacatalog.cookcountyil.gov/d/nj4t-kc8j
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash aa847df2629480709a0b944d4b8722e97bb01b8cd172f833e9eeff66974dead8
Source Schema Version 1.1

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