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GET/api/counties

County Coverage

Returns all supported counties with CAD metadata, average tax rate, and current upstream health status. Each county is pinged at request time — latencyMs reflects live round-trip to the CAD portal.

Parameters

No input parameters.

Request

curl https://api.parcelkit.us/api/counties \
  -H "x-api-key: sk_live_your_key"

Response

response.json
[
  {
    "county": "Harris",
    "cadName": "HCAD",
    "displayName": "Harris County Appraisal District",
    "averageTaxRate": 0.021,
    "portalUrl": "https://hcad.org",
    "status": "online",
    "latencyMs": 611
  },
  {
    "county": "Montgomery",
    "cadName": "MCAD",
    "displayName": "Montgomery County Appraisal District",
    "averageTaxRate": 0.019,
    "portalUrl": "https://mcad-tx.org",
    "status": "online",
    "latencyMs": 430
  }
]

Use status to route around degraded providers at runtime. A county with status: "offline" will return a 503 on property endpoints — check this before bulk operations.