A brief outline of the changes users can expect from the Assessor's open data offerings.

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


• Rowcount and characteristics for a given year are final once the Assessor has certified the assessment roll for all townships. Values should be considered final once the Board of Review closes its appeals, though there are a few rare circumstances where values may change for the current or past years after that.


• 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.

Read about the Assessor's 2022 Open Data Refresh.

Neighborhood polygons used by the Cook County Assessor's Office for valuation and reporting. These neighborhoods are specific to the Assessor. They are intended to represent homogenous housing submarkets, NOT Chicago community areas or municipalities.

These neighborhoods were reconstructed from individual parcels using spatial buffering and simplification. The full transformation script can be found on the Assessor's GitLab.

Residential condominium unit characteristics collected and maintained by the Assessor's office for all of Cook County, from 1999 to present. The office uses this data primarily for valuation, assessments, and reporting.

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 unit-level. Each 14-digit PIN represents one condominium unit. The first 10 digits of each PIN are the condominium building. Additional notes:

• The Assessor's Office has historically not tracked any internal, unit-level characteristics for condominiums, including square footage, number of bedrooms, etc. In 2021, the office began to manually compile unit-level data from a variety of sources. The ultimate intention is to gather basic data on all condominium units in the county.


• As such, unit square footage, building total square footage, and unit number of bedrooms are only available on a per-triad basis after 2021. Future data updates will add these features for other areas.


• Condominiums are assessed based on their percentage of ownership. See the link below for more information on how this process works. The percentage of ownership for all units in a building should sum to 1. However, this may not always be the case in this data, since it does not include commercial units.


• Condominium parcels can also be parking areas, storage units, or common areas. Identifying these units can be challenging, and they are not valued using mass appraisal. The Assessor's Office has an ongoing effort to clean up and identify these unit records.


• 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.


• Data will be updated bi-weekly.


• 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.


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

For more information on how this data is used to estimate condominium unit values, see the Assessor's condominium modeling code on GitLab.

Township codes can be found in the legend of this map.

Single and multi-family (less than 7 units) property characteristics collected and maintained by the Assessor's Office for all of Cook County, from 1999 to present. The office uses this data primarily for valuation, assessments, and reporting.

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.

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 is improvement-level - 'improvements' are individual buildings on a parcel. Each row in a given year corresponds to a building e.g. two rows for the same parcel in one year means a parcel has more than one building.

Data will be updated bi-weekly. Rowcount and characteristics for a given year are final once the Assessor has certified the assessment roll for the 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.

NOTE: The Assessor's Office has recently changed the way Home Improvement Exemptions (HIEs) are tracked in its data. HIEs "freeze" a property's characteristics for a period of time with the intention of encouraging owners to improve their property without fear of assessment increases.

Historically, the updated, "improved" characteristics were saved in a separate file. However, in more recent years, the improved characteristics are saved in the main characteristics file. As such, the records in this data set from before 2021 do NOT include HIE characteristic updates, while those after and including 2021 DO include those updates.

For more information on HIEs, see the Assessor's Data Department wiki.

For more information on how this data is used to estimate property values, see the Assessor's residential modeling code on GitLab.

Township codes can be found in the legend of this map.

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.