Florida · Orange County
Orange County code cases and property records
Orange County publishes the property appraiser's parcel roll and the county Code Enforcement Division's active violations and open incidents, both as public data. ParcelPast reads both live for one address, in Orlando's unincorporated suburbs and the rest of unincorporated Orange County.
Who holds which record
- Property Appraiser (OCPA). The parcel roll: folio number, site address, owner of record, year built, living area, last sale and zoning. Every other record keys off the folio.
- Code Enforcement Division. Active violations and open incidents for unincorporated Orange County: an incident type, a status the division sets (active, investigating or closed), and the date an inspector responded. Citizen-submitted descriptions are shown with any contact details the tipster included stripped out.
- Building permits. Orange County's permit system (Accela eConnect) has no public records feed ParcelPast can read today. The free check and the report say this plainly rather than showing a permit count of zero.
- Cities. Orlando, Winter Garden, Apopka, Ocoee, Windermere, Maitland and the other cities run their own building and code departments. Their records are not in the county's files, and ParcelPast does not read them yet. The free check tells you which jurisdiction an address falls in.
Searching it yourself
Start with the Orange County Property Appraiser's site (ocpafl.org) to get the parcel number. The county's code enforcement case list keys off that same parcel number. Street names on the appraiser roll keep ordinal suffixes ("5TH", not "5") and already write a quadrant as a prefix before the street name ("4500 S HIAWASSEE RD"), the same order most listings use.
What an Orange County report contains
Parcel facts from the appraiser; every code enforcement case the division has open or recently opened, with its status and a sanitized description; a plain note that building permits are not publicly available for this county; and the date and time it was all read. A real example (Miami-Dade; the Orange layout is the same, minus the permits table).