Eviction records from the courts, structured county by county.
Eviction filings are published by hundreds of different courts under a dozen different names, in formats that never line up. Recordpipe collects eviction records across the counties you cover, normalizes case type, parties, dates, and outcomes into one schema, and delivers eviction data as a backfile, a daily feed, or an API. County coverage pages are linked below.
Landlord tenant court records
Case filings, parties, filing and hearing dates, and dispositions where published.
Normalized case types
Unlawful detainer, forcible detainer, dispossessory, summary ejectment: one case-type field across states.
Property-joined
Addresses matched to parcel and ownership data so filings resolve to properties and landlords.
Change feeds
Daily or weekly deltas so your database reflects new filings and updated outcomes.
Eviction records and eviction data from landlord tenant court records
An eviction is a lawsuit. It starts as a filing in a landlord tenant court — a county civil court, a justice court, a housing court, depending on the state — and moves through service, hearing, judgment, and writ. Eviction records are the docket of that lawsuit. Eviction data is what you get when those dockets are collected, structured, and joined to the property they concern.
Courts publish this at very different levels of detail. Some post full dockets with every entry; some post a case index and a disposition; some mask tenant names after a period or seal cases that were dismissed. Recordpipe delivers what each court publishes, in one schema, with the court's own case number on every row so anyone can trace the record back to its source.
What we do not do is fill gaps with inference. If a court does not publish a disposition, the field is null. If a court masks a party name, the field carries the masked value the court shows. The delivered data is the public record as the court presents it, and nothing added.
A national eviction database, built county by county
No government maintains a national eviction database. Eviction filings by state run through different court systems, different case types, and different terms — unlawful detainer, forcible entry and detainer, summary possession, dispossessory — and each county clerk publishes on its own terms. A national picture exists only if someone builds it one county at a time and keeps it current.
That is what Recordpipe does. We build and run the pipeline for the jurisdictions you specify, normalize case types to a common eviction category while preserving the court's original label, and deliver the result as one dataset. Our county-by-county coverage pages describe what each jurisdiction's landlord tenant court records look like in practice: the case types, the stages published, and how disposition and judgment data appear.
The $500 scoping is how a multi-state program starts. It maps what each of your target courts actually publishes, how quickly filings appear, and what a normalized record looks like, with a sample delivered within 5 business days. Coverage honesty up front is the difference between a research program that holds up and one that does not.
Eviction filings data: what each record carries
An eviction filings record from Recordpipe is more than a filing date. It carries the case number and court, the filing date, the case type as the court labels it and as normalized, the plaintiff — usually a landlord or property manager, often an entity — the defendant as published, the property address where the court includes it, and the current stage of the case. Hearing dates, judgments, judgment amounts, writs of possession, and dismissals are delivered as they post, with the docket entry that produced each.
Cases move. A filing today may be dismissed next week, or produce a judgment, or settle and leave the active docket. Recordpipe tracks each case through those stages and updates the record in place, so a team's dataset reflects current status rather than a stack of stale snapshots. The first-seen timestamp on every event is the audit trail.
The property join is what makes this usable for portfolio and market work. Where the court publishes an address, it is normalized and matched to parcel and owner-of-record data, so a filing can be read against the building, the owner, and the history of filings at that address.
Eviction records for landlords, researchers, and tenant screening: where FCRA sits
Eviction records for landlords is a phrase a lot of people search, and it needs a clear answer. Recordpipe delivers raw public court data. It is not a consumer report, and Recordpipe is not a consumer reporting agency. Court records for tenant screening — using an individual's eviction history to decide whether to rent to them — is an eligibility decision governed by the Fair Credit Reporting Act and by state and local laws that limit how eviction records may be used. Any use case touching eligibility gets compliance review at intake, and some will not be a fit.
The uses this data is built for are different. Property managers monitoring their own portfolios' filings across courts. Housing researchers measuring filing rates by geography and over time. Legal aid organizations tracking dockets to reach tenants before hearings. Policy teams, journalists, and investors reading the market. Lenders and insurers assessing multifamily assets at the building level, not the tenant level.
For those teams, the record is delivered as filed, structured, current, and traceable. What you do with it, and staying within the law while you do, is yours.
What a delivery looks like
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| case_number | The court's own case identifier — your verification path back to the source. |
| court_name | Court and jurisdiction where the case was filed, as published. |
| filing_date | Date the case was filed with the court. |
| case_type | Court's original case label plus a normalized eviction category. |
| plaintiff | Filing party as published — typically a landlord, property manager, or entity — with a normalized form. |
| defendant | Responding party exactly as the court publishes it, including any masking or sealing the court applies. |
| property_address | Address at issue where the court includes it, normalized and joined to parcel and owner of record. |
| stage | Current normalized stage: filed, served, hearing scheduled, judgment, writ issued, dismissed, or settled. |
| judgment_amount | Monetary judgment where the court publishes one. |
| first_seen_at | When each event entered your feed — your audit trail on freshness. |
In the field.
Property management: monitoring your own filings across courts
A management company operating in many jurisdictions can reconcile every case its counsel has filed against the courts' own dockets — which cases were served, which have hearings, which reached judgment, which stalled. One schema across courts replaces spreadsheets kept per office and per attorney.
Housing research and policy: filing rates over time
A university or policy team can measure eviction filings by county, by month, and by plaintiff type across its study area, with case types normalized so a filing in one state is comparable to a filing in another. Dispositions and judgment amounts extend the analysis past the filing itself.
Legal aid and tenant services: reaching tenants before the hearing
A legal aid organization can receive each day's new filings in its service area with hearing dates attached, and prioritize outreach by how soon a hearing lands. The address join lets the team see which buildings and owners generate the most filings and plan clinics accordingly.
Multifamily lenders and investors: the building-level signal
A lender or investor evaluating multifamily assets can read filing history at the property level — volume, trend, outcomes — as one input to asset and operator quality. Building-level public data for asset work, not tenant-level screening; anything touching an individual's eligibility gets compliance review at intake.
A national eviction database, built one county at a time
We deliver raw public court data, not consumer reports; Recordpipe is not a CRA. Eligibility use cases get compliance review at intake. Fixed-price from $5,000; scoping is $500, credited, with a sample. County coverage pages: Harris County, TX · Dallas County, TX · Tarrant County, TX · Bexar County, TX · Travis County, TX · Collin County, TX · Denton County, TX · Fort Bend County, TX · Los Angeles County, CA · San Diego County, CA · Orange County, CA · Riverside County, CA · San Bernardino County, CA · Santa Clara County, CA · Alameda County, CA · Cook County, IL · Maricopa County, AZ · Pima County, AZ · Miami-Dade County, FL · Broward County, FL · Palm Beach County, FL · Hillsborough County, FL · Kings County, NY · Suffolk County, NY · Clark County, NV · King County, WA · Wayne County, MI · Franklin County, OH · Cuyahoga County, OH · Hennepin County, MN · Fulton County, GA · Gwinnett County, GA · Mecklenburg County, NC · Wake County, NC · Philadelphia County, PA · Allegheny County, PA · Salt Lake County, UT · Fairfax County, VA.