Description
Tax liens are a method the government uses to secure an interest in unpaid tax debt. This dataset represents information about county, municipal, school district, and water/sewer tax liens by parcel (and property identification number, where available). This dataset includes the name of the municipality, county or school district filing, the date that the lien was filed, and the tax amount at the date of filing.
This data is based on records that were filed dating back to 1995. This dataset will be updated with the previous month's filings as new data becomes available (typically, close to the beginning of the month).
Delinquent Tax Docket numbers are not unique identifiers. Instead, users need to combine the Delinquent Tax Docket number, the tax year, and the lien description.
This dataset represents our best effort to describe the state of tax liens. Users are encouraged to consult the Allegheny County Department of Court Records web site, as it is the definitive and most reliable source for this information:
https://dcr.alleghenycounty.us/
More detailed and up-to-date information on each lien can be found on that site.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| [deprecated] Raw tax-lien records, 1995-2016 (beta) [compressed CSV version] | ZIP | raw-tax-liens-beta.csv.zip | Open resource |
| [deprecated] Tax liens with current status, 1995-2016 (beta) [compressed CSV file] | ZIP | This is a compressed CSV file version of the table of tax liens available here: https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/allegheny-county-tax-liens-filed-and-satisfied/resource/5d222158-5544-4e55-8a0c-ff3b8ff05cea | Open resource |
| Tax liens with current status (beta) [API-only version] [compressed CSV file] | ZIP | This is a compressed CSV file version of the data in the resource "Tax liens with current status (beta) [API-only version]" | Open resource |
| [deprecated] Raw tax-lien records (beta) [compressed CSV file] | ZIP | This is a compressed CSV file version of the table of the raw tax-liens records available here: https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/allegheny-county-tax-liens-filed-and-satisfied/resource/8cd32648-757c-4637-9076-85e144997ca8 | Open resource |
| [deprecated] Tax liens with current status (beta) [compressed CSV file] | ZIP | This is a compressed CSV file version of the table of tax liens available here: https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/allegheny-county-tax-liens-filed-and-satisfied/resource/65d0d259-3e58-49d3-bebb-80dc75f61245 | Open resource |
| Raw tax-lien records (beta) [API-only version] [compressed CSV file] | ZIP | This is a compressed CSV file version of the data in the resource "Raw tax-lien records (beta) [API-only version]" | Open resource |
| [deprecated] Tax-lien satisfaction records, 1995-2016 (beta) | CSV | Open resource | |
| [deprecated] Raw tax-lien records, 1995-2016 (beta) | CSV | This database was created from records about tax liens extracted from the Department of Court Records. Here, each row in the database represents some information about a given lien, meaning that there may be cases where multiple rows need to be combined to synthesize all the information about a given lien. This table includes lien records with filing dates up through June of 2016. Currently this version is only available for API calls due to the large number of rows. | Open resource |
| Tax-lien satisfaction records (beta) | CSV | This database was created from records about lien satisfactions extracted from the Department of Court Records. Here, each row in the database represents some information about a given satisfaction. | Open resource |
| [deprecated] Summary of liens, 1995-2016 (beta) | CSV | Open resource | |
| [deprecated] Tax liens with current status, 1995-2016 (beta) | CSV | This table represents the results of combining all the lien records for a given lien together to put all the information about a lien in a given row in the table. The last column of the table is 'satisfied'. This is false by default, but becomes true when one of the records in the raw data files indicates that the lien has been paid off or otherwise exonerated. This table includes lien records with filing dates up through June of 2016. Currently this version is only available for API calls due to the large number of rows. | Open resource |
| Summary of liens (beta) | CSV | Each row of this table represents a single property, showing its parcel ID, the number of active liens on that property, and the total dollar amount of those liens. | Open resource |
| Property Dashboard | HTML | This data is used in our property dashboard. | Open resource |