Electronic Recording in 2016

Electronic recording continued to account for an increasingly large percentage of recordings in 2016. Of the 65,521 documents recorded last year, 33,620 (52%) came to us electronically. More than two-thirds of all mortgages (8,615 of 12,639 or 68%) come to us electronically, as do 60% of mortgage discharges (8,033 of 13,398).

Since the start of electronic recording, the percentage of documents filed that way has continued to increase each year. Here are the annual percentages:

2005 -  1%
2006 -  3%
2007 -  5%
2008 -  7%
2009 - 12%
2010 - 14%
2011 - 30%
2012 - 34%
2013 - 38%
2014 - 38%
2015 - 45%
2016 - 52%