Essex County, MA Parcels & GIS Data

Essex County, MA parcel data: 227,319 property records with owner names, assessed values, land use, acreage, and addresses. Preview and download.

Land Records publishes Essex County, Massachusetts parcel data covering 227,319 property records.

This page documents parcel-level coverage for Essex County, Massachusetts. Each parcel record carries its boundary polygon (GIS geometry) along with attributes such as the parcel ID/APN, owner name and mailing address, situs (property) address, assessed land and improvement values, acreage, land-use and zoning codes, year built, and most recent sale price and date. Exact fill rates for Essex County are listed in the attribute-coverage table below. Preview the data in the interactive explorer, or download the complete Essex County property dataset.

Essex County is located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. At the 2020 census, the total population was 809,829, making it the third-most populous county in the state, and the seventy-eighth-most populous in the country. It is part of the Greater Boston area.

FIPS 25009

The FIPS code for Essex County is 25009.

MiddlesexSuffolkRockinghamHillsboroughEssex

Attribute coverage

Essex County contains 227,319 parcels in the current dataset. Column coverage is the percentage of those parcels for which the attribute is populated (non-NULL).

ColumnCoverageRecords populated
lrid100%227,319
parcelid98.4%223,613
parcelid2100%227,319
ogparcelid98.4%223,613
ogparcelid2100%227,319
parentid<0.1%0
stackid<0.1%0
geoid100%227,319
statefp100%227,319
countyfp100%227,319
countyname100%227,319
cousubfp100%227,319
cousubname100%227,319
tractce100%227,319
tractname100%227,319
taxacctnum7.5%16,975
taxyear19.6%44,592
taxdistrict<0.1%0
usecode19.6%44,592
usedesc19.6%44,592
zoningcode14.7%33,448
zoningdesc<0.1%0
numbldgs93.2%211,763
numunits18.0%40,989
yearbuilt17.7%40,259
numfloors2.6%5,808
bldgsqft19.6%44,592
bedrooms2.7%6,063
halfbaths2.6%5,974
fullbaths2.7%6,073
imprvalue18.0%40,984
landvalue18.8%42,818
agvalue<0.1%1
totalvalue19.6%44,582
taxacres<0.1%0
calcarea100%227,319
saleamt13.4%30,464
saledate14.4%32,836
ownertype19.6%44,592
ownername14.5%32,944
owneraddr14.5%32,943
ownercity14.5%32,863
ownerstate14.5%32,863
ownerzip14.5%32,863
parceladdr99.5%226,201
parcelcity95.4%216,750
parcelstate100%227,319
parcelzip100%227,317
legaldesc7.8%17,788
township<0.1%0
section<0.1%0
qtrsection<0.1%0
range<0.1%0
plssdesc<0.1%0
book14.3%32,501
page14.4%32,628
block<0.1%0
lot<0.1%0
parceltype2.4%5,505
accesstype2.4%5,505
iucnclass1.6%3,688
placename7.3%16,608
placetype7.2%16,319
firmid100%227,313
firmdate100%227,313
fldzone100%227,313
zonesubty93.0%211,312
staticbfe4.3%9,834
elevmin99.9%227,051
elevmax99.9%227,051
elevavg99.9%227,051
fireplaces0.8%1,712
heating16.5%37,446
heatfuel16.2%36,724
cooling17.1%38,816
foundation2.7%6,086
roofcover17.7%40,258
siding14.5%32,901
bldgtype<0.1%0
naicscode7.3%16,608
frsid<0.1%0
dfrurl<0.1%0
caapermit<0.1%0
cwapermit<0.1%0
rcrapermit<0.1%0
updated19.6%44,592
centroidx100%227,319
centroidy100%227,319
surfpointx100%227,319
surfpointy100%227,319
geom100%227,319
extras100%227,319
lrversion100%227,319

Schema mapping

How source columns from the acquired Essex County GIS layers map into the harmonized entity schemas and assemble into the published parcel table, alongside supplemented fields (elevation, flood zone) and deterministic columns.

Schema mapping — Essex County, Massachusetts (25009) 1 entity · most recent acquisition per entity · generated 2026-07-13 direct column transformed (expression) geometry extras json supplemented determined ALL ENTITIES → FINAL PARCEL SCHEMA Harmonized entity columns assemble into publish.parcel_layer — matched by column name. Supplemented fields show their fill rate in this county. SOURCE COLUMNS HARMONIZED ENTITIES PUBLISH.PARCEL_LAYER PARCEL map_par_id loc_id lu_codes plan_id last_edit geom 11 cols ⇢ parcelid parcelid2 usecode legaldesc updated geom extras determined · ground truth 100% lrid 100% geoid 100% statefp 100% countyfp 100% countyname 100% cousubfp 100% cousubname 100% tractce 100% tractname 19.6% updated 100% lrversion geom · derived from geometry geom dem.us_1m · USGS 1m DEM 100% elevmin 100% elevmax 100% elevavg s_fld_haz_ar · FEMA NFHL 100% fldzone 93.0% zonesubty 4.3% staticbfe 100% firmdate 100% firmid supplemented · derived / other pipelines 93.2% numbldgs 100% parceladdr 95.4% parcelcity 100% parcelstate 100% parcelzip lrid parcelid parcelid2 ogparcelid ogparcelid2 geoid statefp countyfp countyname cousubfp cousubname tractce tractname usecode numbldgs calcarea parceladdr parcelcity parcelstate parcelzip legaldesc firmid firmdate fldzone zonesubty staticbfe elevmin elevmax elevavg updated centroidx centroidy surfpointx surfpointy geom extras lrversion publish.parcel_layer columns not fed by these sources (56) — empty or below 50% fill in this county parentid, stackid, taxacctnum, taxyear, taxdistrict, usedesc, zoningcode, zoningdesc, numunits, yearbuilt, numfloors, bldgsqft, bedrooms halfbaths, fullbaths, imprvalue, landvalue, agvalue, totalvalue, taxacres, saleamt, saledate, ownertype, ownername, owneraddr, ownercity ownerstate, ownerzip, township, section, qtrsection, range, plssdesc, book, page, block, lot, parceltype, accesstype, iucnclass, placename placetype, fireplaces, heating, heatfuel, cooling, foundation, roofcover, siding, bldgtype, naicscode, frsid, dfrurl, caapermit, cwapermit rcrapermit PARCEL 6 mapped · 11 kept in extras · 48 unmapped (NULL) SOURCE COLUMNS HARMONIZED → PARCEL map_par_id loc_id lu_codes plan_id last_edit geom parcelid parcelid2 usecode legaldesc updated geom extras · 11 source columns preserved as json poly_type, map_no, source, bnd_chk, no_match, town_id, site esn, dev, sym1, sym2 extras not present in source — filled with NULL (48) taxacctnum, taxyear, usedesc, zoningcode, zoningdesc, numbldgs, numunits, yearbuilt, numfloors, bldgsqft, bedrooms, halfbaths, fullbaths imprvalue, landvalue, agvalue, totalvalue, taxacres, saleamt, saledate, ownername, owneraddr, ownercity, ownerstate, ownerzip, parceladdr parcelcity, parcelstate, parcelzip, township, section, qtrsection, range, plssdesc, book, page, block, lot, sourceurl, taxdistrict, parentid fireplaces, heating, cooling, foundation, roofcover, siding, heatfuel

Neighboring counties

Parcel data for counties bordering Essex County:

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