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.

Parcel sales for real property in Cook County, from 1999 to present. The Assessor's Office uses this data in its modeling to estimate the fair market value of unsold properties.

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.

Sale document numbers correspond to those of the Cook County Clerk, and can be used on the Clerk's website to find more information about each sale.

NOTE: These sales are unfiltered and include non-arms-length transactions. While the Data Department will upload what it has access to monthly, sales are reported on a lag, with many records not populating until months after their official recording date.

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.

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.

Every assessed value in Cook County 2010 to 2020, and appeal indicators. Each PIN has three stages of assessments each year: CCAO Mailed, CCAO Certified, and Board of Review (BOR) Certified final values. This allows comparison in assessments across agencies.

This data displays total exempt EAV and total exemptions by tax code. Since residential exemptions reveal sensitive information about individual taxpayers and households, we have applied the p% statistical disclosure rule in suppressing fields.

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.

This data set includes property locations and attached spatial data for all Cook County parcels. Spatial matching was based on parcel centroids. Older properties may be missing latitude and longitude data because they are not contained in the most recent parcel shape layer. Brand new properties may be missing a mailing/property address because the postal service has not yet assigned the property an address. Data attached to each PIN is the most recent available. For example, Census tract data is drawn from the 2014-2018 5-year American Community Survey.

The code and sources used to construct this data can be located on GitLab. See data notes for link.

In response to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and its anticipated effects on the residential real estate market, the Cook County Assessor will adjust residential assessments. This data can be used to replicate residential COVID adjustments. Code can be located on GitLab. See data notes for link. NOTE that the 'adjusted values' in this data will not necessarily be consistent with each individual PIN's final assessment. To get the final assessment for an individual PIN, please visit www.cookcountyassessor.com.

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.

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.