If you only have time to read one number before this cycle opens, read this one: **81.7% of the 114,428 Board of Review appeals on record in Orland Township were filed by counsel.** This is not a township where you are teaching the market that representation exists. It is a township where representation is already the default, and the question for your book is narrower and sharper — who is renewing, who is unrepresented, and who is up for grabs.
Quick Answer
Orland Township has 114,428 Board of Review appeals on record (tax years 2010–2025), 81.7% attorney-represented — well above the 73.0% blended share across the 2026 South/West townships and near the ~86% countywide figure. Its historical grant base-rate is 54.4%.
The record also shows $599.4M in assessed-value reductions, and the book is residential-dominant at 89.5%. These are historical base-rates on the public record, not predictions of any individual outcome.
Read This Before You Read Anything Else
Two things make Orland distinct, and they pull in the same direction.
First, **a high historical grant rate.** Across the public Board of Review record, 54.4% of Orland appeals carried a reduction — more than half of everything on file. That is a historical grant frequency on the public record, **not a prediction of any individual outcome** and not a savings figure; it is the assessed-value side, not a tax bill.
Second, **dense representation.** At 81.7% attorney-represented, Orland runs well above the 73.0% blended attorney share across the seventeen 2026 South/West townships, and close to the ~86% countywide figure. By the time an Orland parcel reaches the Board, counsel is the rule, not the exception.
Put those two together and the strategic read writes itself. A high grant base-rate is what *attracts* representation; dense representation is what a high grant base-rate *produces*. Orland is the mature end of that loop — which changes what "winning the township" means here. It is less a greenfield acquisition story and more a retention-and-displacement story.
The Book: 114,428 Appeals, 89.5% Residential
Orland's appeal volume — **114,428 decisions on the public record (tax years 2010–2025)** — is built on a residential core. The class mix:
- **Residential — 89.5%.** This is a homeowner book. Volume lives here.
- **Commercial / industrial — 8.0%.** A modest commercial share, but where the value-per-parcel concentrates.
- **Multifamily — 0.6%.** Thin.
- **Other — 1.9%.**
The grant base-rate varies meaningfully by class, and that variation is the part most worth pricing into how you work the township:
- **Multifamily — 59.7%** historical grant rate (on a thin 0.6% of the book — high frequency, low count).
- **Residential — 56.7%.** The engine: a strong grant base-rate on the class that *is* the book. This is what drives Orland's headline 54.4%.
- **Commercial / industrial — 37.7%.** Lower frequency, but the assessed-value swing per granted appeal is where the commercial work earns its keep.
- **Other — 14.5%.**
The signal here is unusual: in most townships the residential base-rate is the floor and commercial is the prize. In Orland the residential base-rate (56.7%) is genuinely strong *and* it is 89.5% of the volume. The book is big, it is residential, and the historical grant frequency sits on that residential mass.
The Reductions On Record: $599.4M
Across that history, the Board of Review record shows **$599,357,089 in assessed-value reductions** in Orland Township. Stated plainly so it is not misread: that is the sum of **assessed-value reductions on the public record — not tax savings, not a promise, and not attributable to any one filing or firm.** Run it through the 2024 final equalizer (3.0355, per IDOR) and the residential 10% assessment level if you want to reason about equalized-value scale, but the figure as published is an AV figure, and that is how it should be cited.
What it tells you is concentration. Nearly $600M in AV reductions, on a book that is 89.5% residential and 81.7% represented, is the footprint of a township where firms have been working at volume and at scale for years.
The Cycle Trend: A 2023 Reassessment Spike, Then the 2025 Gap
The year-by-year filing counts on the recent record trace the triennial rhythm directly:
- **2018 — 6,717**
- **2019 — 5,904**
- **2020 — 12,505** (reassessment-cycle spike)
- **2021 — 7,598**
- **2022 — 4,546** (the off-cycle trough)
- **2023 — 14,378** (the last reassessment spike — the high-water mark)
- **2024 — 9,507**
- **2025 — 0**
Two features matter. First, the **reassessment years stand out hard** — 12,505 filings in 2020 and 14,378 in 2023, against a 4,546 trough in 2022. Volume in Orland is not flat; it pulses on the triennial, and 2026 is the next pulse. The market roughly *triples* between an off-cycle trough and a reassessment year.
Second, **2025 reads 0 on the record** — a reporting/certification artifact of where this dataset closes for the township, not a market that vanished. Do not model it as a real decline. Model the *shape*: an off-cycle build-up, then a reassessment-year surge. The 2026 South/West reassessment is what restarts that surge, and Orland is in it.
What 2026 Means for an Orland Book
Orland is one of the seventeen South and West suburban townships reassessed in 2026. The mechanics are the same everywhere and unforgiving: reassessment notices mail township by township from late April through the summer; the Assessor's appeal window runs roughly **30 days from the notice**, with the last-file date printed on the notice and **no extension**; the Board of Review then runs its own separate windows afterward.
For a township this professionalized, the 2026 read is specific:
- **Renewals are the spine.** With 81.7% already represented and the next reassessment surge incoming, the dominant motion is keeping the parcels you already carry and re-filing them on time when notices land. Foresight on *whose* notice mails *when* is the operational edge.
- **The unrepresented sliver is still real.** 18.3% pro se on a 114,428-appeal book is not nothing — it is the pool that is genuinely up for sourcing, framed strictly as market structure, not as advice about any property.
- **Commercial is the value lever, not the volume lever.** At 8.0% of the book with a 37.7% grant base-rate, commercial/industrial is where per-parcel AV swings concentrate, even though residential is where the count lives.
The constraint that scales with all of it is the same one every Cook firm hits: every filing re-keyed by hand into SmartFile/DAPS, parcel by parcel. In a township that pulses to ~14,000 filings in a reassessment year, the double data-entry tax is not a nuisance line item — it is the fixed cost that grows with exactly the volume that makes Orland worth working.
Where Censum Docket Fits
Censum Docket is built for the two problems this dossier keeps circling: the staggered township calendar and the double data-entry — not your judgment, your strategy, or your client relationships.
- You file under **your own code and rep block.** Docket never defaults to Censum. Censum is the intake and Cook-authorization rails and the **Merchant of Record — not counsel of record, not a law firm, and not affiliated with Cook County.**
- **Renewal Foresight** surfaces the Orland parcels in your book against the live 2026 windows, so the reassessment surge is something you stage for, not something you scramble through.
- Pricing is **flat, per seat.** Censum never takes a percentage of a result. You keep your book and your upside.
The numbers above are practice intelligence drawn from the public record, framed to help you triage Orland. They are base-rates and history, not predictions, and nothing here is legal advice — you are the attorney.
FAQ
How professionalized is the Orland Township appeal market?
Highly. 81.7% of the 114,428 Board of Review appeals on record were attorney-represented — above the 73.0% blended share across the 2026 South/West townships and near the ~86% countywide figure. By the time an Orland parcel reaches the Board, counsel is the rule.
What is the historical grant rate in Orland Township?
54.4% of Orland appeals on the public record carried a reduction. Residential, which is 89.5% of the book, runs a 56.7% base-rate. These are historical grant frequencies on the public record, not predictions of any individual outcome and not savings figures.
What does "$599.4M in assessed-value reductions" mean?
It is the sum of assessed-value reductions recorded in the public Board of Review dataset for Orland across tax years 2010–2025. It is an assessed-value figure, not tax savings, not a promise, and not attributable to any single filing, firm, or property.
Why does the data show 0 appeals for 2025?
That is a certification/reporting artifact of where this public dataset closes for Orland, not a real collapse in filings. The meaningful pattern is the triennial pulse — reassessment-year surges (12,505 in 2020, 14,378 in 2023) against off-cycle troughs — which 2026 restarts.
Do we file under our own code, or Censum's?
Your own. Docket's filing rails carry your code and rep block by design and never default to Censum. Censum is the intake and authorization layer and the Merchant of Record — not counsel of record.
Is this flat-fee or a percentage of savings?
Flat, per seat. Censum Docket never bills a percentage of any reduction. The firm keeps the client relationship and the economics.
Where does this data come from?
It is Censum's aggregation of the public Cook County Board of Review decision dataset (tax years 2010–2025). No appellant or client information is used. Cycle and calendar facts come from the official Cook County Assessor and Board of Review calendars, checked at publication.
Next Step
The first question for an Orland book this cycle is not "is this a good township?" — the 54.4% base-rate and 81.7% representation already speak to its structure. It is "which of my Orland parcels mail their notice when, and am I staged to re-file every one before the window closes?"
Censum Docket answers that against the live 2026 Cook County calendars and lets you file under your own code on flat pricing. Censum is independent and not affiliated with Cook County.