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2017 A comparison of county assessor statistics

Washington State Department of Revenue

Property Tax Division

Compiled by: Marc Leverington
July, 2018


Entire report in PDF

County characteristics

Page 1
County Revaluation Cycles - 2017 Assessment Year
PDF | Word

Pages 2 & 3
2017 County Assessed Values - Real and Personal Property
PDF | Excel

Page 4
2017 County Parcel Count - Real and Personal Property
PDF | Excel

Page 5
Population, Real Property, and Assessed Value
PDF | Excel

Page 6
2017 County Parcel Count - Sorted by Real Property Parcel Count
PDF | Excel

Page 7
Taxable and Exempt Parcels - Listed on 2017 Real Property Roll
PDF | Excel

Pages 8 & 9
Number of Real Property Parcels - 2017
PDF | Excel

Page 10
2017 New Construction
PDF | Excel

Page 11
2017 County New Property - $ Amount Placed on Assessment Roll
PDF | Excel

Page 12
2017 Property Division & Consolidation
PDF | Excel

Page 13
Dates of Assessment Roll Certification - Real, Personal and New Construction
PDF | Excel

Page 14
2017 Personal Property Comparison
PDF | Excel

Assessor staff levels

Page 15
2017 County Assessors' Staff
PDF | Excel

Pages 16 & 17
2017 Distribution of FTE'S - By Function
PDF | Excel

Page 18
Comparison of Staff Levels - Current with % Change
PDF | Excel

Page 19
Comparison of Staff Levels - Historical vs. Current
PDF | Excel

Workload comparisons

Page 20
Comparison of 2017 Workloads - Parcel Count Per Total Staff
PDF | Excel

Page 21
Comparison of 2017 Workloads - Parcel County Per Appraiser
PDF | Excel

Page 22
Comparison of 2017 Workloads - Inspections Per Appraiser Per Year
PDF | Excel

Page 23
Comparison of 2017 Workloads- Personal Property Accounts Per Auditor
PDF | Excel

Assessor budgets and budget comparisons

Page 24
2016-2018 Assessor Budgets
PDF | Excel

Page 25
2016-2018 Assessor Budgets (Less items paid to Central Services)
PDF | Excel

Page 26
2017 Assessors' Budgets (Less items paid to Central Services) $ Per Staff
PDF | Excel

Page 27
2017 Assessors' Budgets (Less items paid to Central Services) $ Per Parcel
PDF | Excel

Page 28
2018 Assessors' Budgets (Less items paid to Central Services) $ Per Staff
PDF | Excel

Page 29
2018 Assessors' Budgets (Less items paid to Central Services) $ Per Parcel
PDF | Excel

Appeals

Page 30
Total County Appeals - Real Property
PDF | Excel

Page 31
Real Property Appeals Filed in 2016 - BOE Appeals as a % of Parcels
PDF | Excel

Page 32
Real Property Appeals Filed in 2017 - BOE Appeals as a % of Parcels
PDF | Excel

Page 33
Real Property Appeals filed in 2016
PDF | Excel

Page 34
Real Property Appeals Filed in 2017
PDF | Excel

Assessors' maps, land records, GIS, and software

Page 35
GIS- Management of GIS and Maintenance of Layers
PDF | Excel

Pages 36 & 37
Integration of GIS with Assessors' Maps and Land Records
PDF | Excel

Pages 38 & 39
County Software Systems
PDF | Excel

Ratios

Page 40
County Ratios - Real and Personal Property
PDF | Excel