County report card · North Carolina
Transylvania County, North Carolina
ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24
County website Vendor (Kofile / Granicus) prohibits automated data harvesting
- Population
- 34,103
- Portal
- Assessor
- Portal vendor
- Kofile / Granicus
What the audit checked
Four low-cost protections every online records portal can have. How we rate counties.
- robots.txtYes — permissive
- Terms of useNot checked
- Bot challengeCloudflare bot detection
- Owner notificationUnknown
Portal audited: www.transylvaniacounty.org/index.php/departments/tax-administration, www.transylvaniadeeds.com/, tax.transylvaniacounty.org/, gis.transylvaniacounty.org/portal/apps/sites/#/transylvania-county-hub-site
Doing well
- Technical barriers (cloudflare) that deter casual bulk access
Room to grow
- Expanding the robots.txt file to disallow automated scrapers
What to ask for
Building on the protections already in place, you might consider a property-owner notification system (like the ones AZ, FL, HI, IL, and UT have implemented) and a formal data-governance policy that addresses commercial data aggregators.
The full playbook is What Counties Can Do.