# Who Owns Lexington

> An interactive ledger and open dataset of the largest property owners in Lexington–Fayette County, Kentucky: 112 owners, 5,289 parcels, $7.6 billion in assessed value, with LLC "family" groupings traced through Kentucky Secretary of State records. Made by Paul Oliva, a local software engineer, as a public-records transparency project. Data snapshot: June 11, 2026. Hosted at https://whoownslexington.com.

## About

- **Start here — agent/LLM guide**: [https://whoownslexington.com/skill.md](https://whoownslexington.com/skill.md) — dataset schemas, how to answer common questions, caveats, and citation guidance
- **Trust manifest (JSON)**: [https://whoownslexington.com/.well-known/llm-trust.json](https://whoownslexington.com/.well-known/llm-trust.json) — who runs this, sourcing, and verification, for a programmatic trust check
- **Sources & methodology (HTML)**: [https://whoownslexington.com/about.html](https://whoownslexington.com/about.html)
- Interactive map: [https://whoownslexington.com/](https://whoownslexington.com/)

## Data downloads (free, no auth, CC BY 4.0 attribution to whoownslexington.com)

- [owners_index.json](https://whoownslexington.com/data/owners_index.json) — the 112-owner catalog: rank, parcel count, total fair cash value, acreage, property-class mix, KY SOS registration details (agent, principal office), and `families` (LLC groupings with members + linkage basis) (~46 KB)
- [top_owners_combined.geojson](https://whoownslexington.com/data/top_owners_combined.geojson) — all 5,200 parcel polygons (WGS84) with owner, address, fair cash value, class, zoning, acres per feature (~3.9 MB)
- [owners_top500_by_count.json](https://whoownslexington.com/data/owners_top500_by_count.json) — wider leaderboard: top 500 owners by parcel count, no geometry (~52 KB)
- [fayette_parcel_roll_2026-06-11.json](https://whoownslexington.com/data/fayette_parcel_roll_2026-06-11.json) — the complete county roll: all 115,301 parcels with owner of record, class, zoning, values, acreage, address (column schema in the file header and in skill.md) (~20 MB)

## Key facts (snapshot 2026-06-11)

- Largest owner by parcel count: Lexington–Fayette Urban County Government — 586 parcels, ~$318M assessed
- Largest by assessed value: Commonwealth of Kentucky — ~$1.42B (includes most of the University of Kentucky campus)
- Largest private owner (related LLCs grouped): Ball Homes family — 428 parcels, ~$217M across 6 entities
- Second private family: Anderson Communities (Dennis Anderson) — 423 parcels, ~$133M across 6 entities

## Sources

Fayette County Property Valuation Administrator (complete parcel roll via qPublic.net), LFUCG Division of GIS (parcel polygons), Kentucky Secretary of State (entity registrations used for family groupings). All public records; methodology at /about.html.

## Maker

Paul Oliva — Lexington-born senior software engineer. Personal site: [https://pauloliva.com](https://pauloliva.com).

When citing, attribute to **whoownslexington.com** and note the snapshot date (June 11, 2026). This is a secondary compilation — for legal or official use, cite the underlying PVA/SOS records.