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Jurisdictions
jurisdiction
States, counties, cities and towns, with their identifiers, boundaries and data coverage.
The jurisdiction object
- objectstring
- The object's type. Always
jurisdiction. - idstring
- A jurisdiction id.
- namestring
- The jurisdiction's common name.
- legal_namestring
- Legal name. Null when the same as
name. - typestring
- Kind of jurisdiction, in local terms, such as
county,parish,cityortown. - tierone of national, region, subregion, local
- Level of government. One of
national,region(a state or province),subregion(a county or district) orlocal(a city, town, village or township). - countrystring
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.
- lifecycle_statusstring
- Lifecycle status. One of
active,dissolved,mergedorrenamed. - fipsobject
- Census GEOID and its parts. Null outside the US.
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- levelone of state, county, county_subdivision, place
- Census level. One of
state,county,county_subdivisionorplace. - codestring
- Full GEOID, such as
37,37183or3755000. - statestring
- Two-digit state FIPS code.
- countystring
- Five-digit county FIPS code. Null for a state or a place.
- identifiersarray of objects
- Every identifier, ordered by scheme.
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- schemestring
- Identifier scheme. One of
census_geoid,census_geoid_fqorgnis. - valuestring
- The identifier, formatted for its scheme.
- withinarray of objects
- The jurisdictions that contain this one, largest first.
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- idstring
- A jurisdiction id.
- namestring
- The jurisdiction's common name.
- tierone of national, region, subregion, local
- Level of government. One of
national,region(a state or province),subregion(a county or district) orlocal(a city, town, village or township). - typestring
- Kind of jurisdiction, in local terms, such as
county,parish,cityortown. - fipsstring
- The Census GEOID. Null outside the US.
- partialboolean
- Whether the jurisdiction lies only partly inside the containing one.
- land_area_m2integer
- Land area, in square meters. Null when not published.
- water_area_m2integer
- Water area, in square meters. Null when not published.
- centroidobject
- A point inside the boundary. Null when not published.
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- latnumber
- Latitude, in WGS 84.
- lonnumber
- Longitude, in WGS 84.
- coverageobject
- Data available for the jurisdiction, by kind of record.
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- parcelobject
- Parcels. Null when there are none.
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- recordsinteger
- Number of records for the jurisdiction and every jurisdiction within it.
- as_ofdate
- The most recent
as_ofamong those records.
- zoningobject
- Zoning classifications. Null when there are none.
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- recordsinteger
- Number of records for the jurisdiction and every jurisdiction within it.
- as_ofdate
- The most recent
as_ofamong those records.
- permitobject
- Building and trade permits. Null when there are none.
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- recordsinteger
- Number of records for the jurisdiction and every jurisdiction within it.
- as_ofdate
- The most recent
as_ofamong those records.
- caseobject
- Zoning and development cases. Null when there are none.
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- recordsinteger
- Number of records for the jurisdiction and every jurisdiction within it.
- as_ofdate
- The most recent
as_ofamong those records.
- statisticsobject
- Figures computed from the records held for the jurisdiction.
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- parcelobject
- Figures from the county's parcels. Null for a jurisdiction that is not a county, and for a county with no parcels.
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- parcelsinteger
- Number of parcels the figures are computed from.
- median_market_valueinteger
- Median total market value, in US dollars. Null when no parcel has one.
- median_acresnumber
- Median parcel size, in acres. Null when no parcel has a boundary.
- median_year_builtinteger
- Median year the main building was built. Null when no parcel has one.
- sales_last_yearinteger
- Number of parcels whose most recent sale was in the 365 days before
computed. - median_sale_priceinteger
- Median price of those sales, in US dollars. Null when none has a price.
- land_usearray of objects
- Parcels by standard land use category, most first. Parcels with no standard land use are not counted.
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- categorystring
- Standard land use category, such as
residential,commercialorvacant. - parcelsinteger
- Number of parcels in the category.
- computeddate
- Date the figures were computed. They are computed again each day.
- geometryobject
- Boundary, as GeoJSON. Included only with
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- typestring
- Geometry type. One of
PolygonorMultiPolygon. - coordinatesarray of anys
- Coordinates, as
[longitude, latitude]positions nested by geometry type.
- hrefstring
- The object's path in the API.