Property Assessment

The Boston Archive

Dataset

Property Assessment

Gives property, or parcel, ownership together with value information, which ensures fair assessment of Boston taxable and non-taxable property of all types and classifications. To preserve their integrity, the identifiers PID, CM_ID, GIS_ID, ZIPCODE, and MAIL_ZIPCODE all are marked with an…

Dataset

Publisher: Assessing Department
Spatial coverage: all
Fields: 67
Keywords: parcel, property, property value, tax
Publisher's page: https://data.boston.gov/dataset/property-assessment

Artifacts

“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.

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Column dictionary

The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.

Column	Type	Description
`PID`	text
`CM_ID`	text
`GIS_ID`	text
`ST_NUM`	text
`ST_ALPHA`	text
`ST_NUM2`	text
`ST_NAME`	text
`UNIT_NUM`	text
`CITY`	text
`ZIP_CODE`	text
`BLDG_SEQ`	text
`NUM_BLDGS`	text
`LUC`	text
`LU`	text
`LU_DESC`	text
`BLDG_TYPE`	text
`OWN_OCC`	text
`OWNER`	text
`MAIL_ADDRESSEE`	text
`MAIL_STREET_ADDRESS`	text
`MAIL_CITY`	text
`MAIL_STATE`	text
`MAIL_ZIP_CODE`	text
`RES_FLOOR`	text
`CD_FLOOR`	text
`RES_UNITS`	text
`COM_UNITS`	text
`RC_UNITS`	text
`LAND_SF`	text
`GROSS_AREA`	text
`LIVING_AREA`	text
`LAND_VALUE`	text
`BLDG_VALUE`	text
`SFYI_VALUE`	text
`TOTAL_VALUE`	text
`GROSS_TAX`	text
`YR_BUILT`	text
`YR_REMODEL`	text
`STRUCTURE_CLASS`	text
`ROOF_STRUCTURE`	text
`ROOF_COVER`	text
`INT_WALL`	text
`EXT_FNISHED`	text
`INT_COND`	text
`EXT_COND`	text
`OVERALL_COND`	text
`BED_RMS`	text
`FULL_BTH`	text

48 of 67 columns are shown here. The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/12e822f735f00980ad4ccc0d8574182e/property-assessment-columns.json — 3955 bytes, SHA-256 12e822f735f00980…, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Questions this record answers

Each answer is composed only from fields this record carries, and names the attestation for what it says. A question the record cannot answer from its own attested content is not asked here. Where a boundary is described as official it was promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it and is not amended by anything on the vernacular layer; where it is described as vernacular it is held by attestation alone and amends no official boundary.

Who publishes Property Assessment, and under what license?

Assessing Department publishes it. The archive accessioned it under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public domain), and holds the publisher's own column dictionary verbatim rather than reworded into the archive's vocabulary — how a publisher names a column is evidence about the publisher.