This data set contains characteristic data points used by the Cook County Assessor in the 2021 Chicago reassessment to produce initial estimates of the current market value of most Chicago homes (single-family homes, small multi-family homes, and condo units). You can use the "Filter" option to search for a property's PIN or address, and see what data the Assessor’s Office had about a home’s characteristics at the time of modeling*. To learn more about how the 2021 model used this data, read about our public Residential Automated Valuation Model here. Chicago properties not listed here are reassessed using different modeling procedures.

*Important Note: This dataset is, at the time of publication, an early snapshot of data. Data about a home might change later in the assessment process this year as Assessor’s Office staff and analysts review these properties. After this review, updated characteristics and market values are mailed to homeowners. If the data listed on the assessment notice is incorrect, an appeal can be filed to provide the correct characteristics.

Neighborhoods play an important role in residential property assessment. Single-family and residential multi-family property assessments are sensitive to neighborhood boundaries. Neighborhoods are nearly always used in statistical regression models to produce initial assessed values, and comparable properties are nearly always selected from within neighborhoods for the purposes of appeal. See data notes for additional information.

Assessment dataset used by the Cook County Assessor in their Computer Assisted Mass Appraisal (CAMA) system used to assess residential properties in Northern Triennial Townships. This dataset contains property information for every residential PIN in the northern triennial townships where class is within a specified list of classes. For disclaimers, see dataset narrative at https://datacatalog.cookcountyil.gov/stories/s/p2kt-hk36

This is the data set of residential sales used by the Cook County Assessor in their Computer Assisted Mass Appraisal system used to assess residential property values. This data set contains property information for every arm's-length residential sale in Cook County where class is within a specified list of classes. For disclaimers, see data set narrative at https://datacatalog.cookcountyil.gov/stories/s/p2kt-hk36

This data set was replaced by the more comprehensive data set Cook County Assessor's Sales.

Real estate sales data used by the Cook County Assessor to estimate Fair Cash Values for the purpose of property taxation. Deeds that include multiple PIN numbers are excluded from this data. This data is produced by joining sales data from the Illinois Department of Revenue against incomplete sales data from the Cook County Recorder of Deeds, parsing the resulting data to obtain data unique by deed number, and, in some cases, determining arms' length status of sales.

Assessment Appeals by Town and Class from Tax Year 2010.

Homeowner Exceptions by Town Number/Township in Tax Year 2010.

This data contains every residential Property Index Number (PIN) and corresponding Assessed Values from significant stages in the assessment process.

This data was replaced with the more comprehensive Cook County Assessor's Fair Cash Values.

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:

• Data is attached via spatial join (st_contains) to each parcel's centroid.


• 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.


• Attached spatial data does NOT go all the way back to 1999. It is only available for more recent years, primarily those after 2012.


• The universe contains data for the current tax year, which may not be complete or final. PINs can still be added and removed to the universe up until the Board of Review closes appeals.


• Data will be updated monthly.


• Rowcount and characteristics for a given year are final once the Assessor has certified the assessment roll for all townships.


• 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 decrepencies between the systems used by the Assessor and Clerk's offices, tax_district_code is not currently up-to-date in this table.

For more information on the sourcing of attached data and the preparation of this dataset, see the Assessor's data architecture repo on GitLab.

Land, building, and total assessed values for all Cook County parcels, from 1999 to present. The Assessor's Office uses these values for reporting, evaluating assessment performance over time, and research.

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.

This data is parcel-level. Each row contains the assessed values for a single PIN for a single year. Important notes:

• Assessed values are available in three stages: 1) mailed, these are the initial values estimated by the Assessor's Office and mailed to taxpayers. 2) certified, these are values after the Assessor's Office closes appeals. 3) Board of Review certified, these are values after the Board of Review closes appeals.


• The values in this data are assessed values, NOT market values. Assessed values must be adjusted by their level of assessment to arrive at market value. Note that levels of assessment have changed throughout the time period covered by this data set.


• This data set will be updated roughly contemporaneously (monthly) with the Assessor's website as values are mailed and certified. However, note that there may be small discrepancies between the Assessor's site and this data set, as each pulls from a slightly different system. If you find a discrepancy, please email the Data Department using the contact link below.


• 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.


• 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.

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.