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County report card · Pennsylvania

York County, Pennsylvania

ProtectedAudited 2026-08-24

County website Vendor (Tyler Technologies) prohibits automated data harvesting

Population
471,240
Portal
Assessor & Recorder
Portal vendor
Tyler Technologies

What the audit checked

Four low-cost protections every online records portal can have. How we rate counties.

  • robots.txtYes — permissive
  • Terms of useProhibits automation
  • Bot challengeNone detected
  • Owner notificationUnknown

Portal audited: webrecorders.yorkcountypa.gov/web/user/disclaimer, assessmentpublic.yorkcountypa.gov/, yorkcountypa.gov/501/Property-Taxes, experience.arcgis.com/experience/b6d4d251171242ac8fdad88a20360b36/, yorkcountypa.gov/539/Recorder-of-Deeds

Doing well

  • A Terms of Use that prohibits automated access to records

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.