Guide · Data
Florida parcel data download: the state's roll files, and when a map is easier
The Florida Department of Revenue posts every county's property roll and sale file for free, as one comma-separated file per county with a header row. The download is the right tool for statewide analysis. To read one parcel, or a few hundred, a map that has already joined the files to the shapes saves the work.
What the state posts
The Department's request page for assessment roll and GIS data lists four files for each county:
- NAL, Name-Address-Legal. One row per real property parcel: owner and mailing address, the site address, values, exemptions, use code, land and building facts, and the two most recent sales.
- SDF, the sale data file. One row per sale, with the price, month, deed book and page, and the qualification code.
- NAP. Tangible personal property: business equipment, not land.
- GIS parcel shapes. The outlines, which the Department collects each year by April 1.
The page says roll files reach back to 2002, sale files to 2009 and shapes to 2005, but only the current version of each roll is online; older years are by request. Each year brings a preliminary roll around July 1, a first final roll in October, and later updates once the county's roll is certified. The field-by-field layout is in the 2026 user's guide.
What a download leaves you to do
- Fetch 67 files, then do it again. Each county is its own file, and a newer roll replaces the last one during the year.
- Join the shapes. The roll has no geometry. You match the outline file to it by parcel number, and some parcels have no outline: condominium units, for one.
- Decode the codes. Use codes, exemption codes and sale codes are numbers; their meanings are in the guide's tables.
- Live with the field widths. The legal description is cut at 30 characters and the owner name at 50, so a long legal or a second owner is often lost.
- Mind what is left out. The public files leave out what is kept confidential under section 119.071, Florida Statutes, so a parcel count from them can fall short of the county's own.
What the 2026 files hold
| Measured on 1 November 2026, from the state's 2026 files | Count |
|---|---|
| Parcels on the 2026 rolls, all 67 counties | 11,090,226 |
| Largest county file: Miami-Dade | 938,308 |
| Next: Broward, then Palm Beach | 754,549 · 657,490 |
| Smallest county file: Liberty | 6,012 |
| Parcel outlines in the shape files | 10,486,065 |
| Legal descriptions at 29 or 30 characters, the field's limit | 5,559,241 |
| Parcels with no owner name | 1,581 |
| Final-roll rows, fetched 24 and 25 October, 66 counties | 11,045,451 |
| Of those, counties already on the 2026 final roll | 56 |
Half of all legal descriptions run to the field's limit, which is why a plat book reference or a second lot is so often missing from the roll. When we fetched the final rolls, 10 counties still offered their preliminary file and we found none for Jackson, so a download made the same week would have mixed two versions of the roll.
Where it stops
- The roll is a January snapshot. Ownership is as of January 1; we have 156,447 parcels whose deed since then names someone new.
- Not a title record. Easements, liens and the full legal description live in the clerk's recorded documents, not in these files.
- The fiduciary field is empty. The guide says it has not been required since 2012, and it is blank on every final-roll row we hold.
On Map Views
We load these state files for all 67 counties, join them to the outlines and to the public layers, and keep the final roll beside the January one: where a county has posted its final roll, the report shows the final just value and notes when the final roll names a different owner. Search any field, then export the list to CSV, Excel or tab-delimited, pick the columns, or save points as GeoJSON; the outlines go out as GeoJSON, KML, a shapefile or DXF. Exports are capped at 1,000 properties a day per member, which fits a mailing list of a few hundred researched parcels. There is no API. For the state's shape downloads and the other statewide layers, see Florida GIS maps.
The county property appraiser is the authority on each parcel's roll; the Department of Revenue collects the rolls and publishes these files and their guide. The counts are ours, read on 1 November 2026.