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Building Permits in the United States decreased to 1330 Thousand in August from 1362 Thousand in July of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States Building Permits - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.
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Graph and download economic data for New Privately-Owned Housing Units Authorized in Permit-Issuing Places: Total Units (PERMIT) from Jan 1960 to Aug 2025 about headline figure, permits, buildings, new, private, housing, and USA.
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View monthly updates and historical trends for US Building Permits. from United States. Source: Census Bureau. Track economic data with YCharts analytics.
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The City requires permits for commercial and residential development, such as new single-family homes, commercial construction, remodels, additions and related activity like trade (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) work. City review ensures that construction projects adhere to the City’s adopted Building Codes and the Unified Development Code to enhance the health and safety for you, your family and our community.
The datasets below are provided as-is as a record of building activity in San Antonio. For any additional information not contained below, or for information and documentation related to building activity, a request for information (“open records request”) is needed; please refer to the City of San Antonio Open Government Request site at https://www.sa.gov/Directory/Departments/CE/Open-Records-Request to submit a request.
A list of job applications filed for a particular day and associated data. Prior weekly and monthly reports are archived at DOB and are not available on NYC Open Data.
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Building permits help to establish compliance of construction work with the minimum standards of safety established by the State Building Code to ensure public health and safety for everyone. A building permit is required before beginning most construction, demolition, modification and repair work. The Inspectional Services Department offers permitting processes tailored for a wide variety of projects, from home repairs to building demolition.
For more information on the permitting process, visit our Inspectional Services Department Permitting Process page. To apply for a new building permit or check the status of your pending permit application, go to our City of Boston Permits and Licenses Application page.
This dataset includes information about building permits issued by the City of Boston from 2009 to the present. Permits that are being processed or have been denied, deleted, void or revoked are not included in the dataset.
This dataset includes information about the following types of building permits:
For more information on these permits and their application process, visit our Building Permits information page.
Issued: indicates that the permit has been issued on date specified as issued_date.
Open: indicates that the permit has been issued and is still valid for the applicant (i.e. not expired yet).
Closed: indicates that the permit was successfully issued but is not valid anymore (i.e. has expired).
Stop work: indicates the permit was successfully issued but it stopped working due to non-compliance or other issues before the expiration date.
This dataset contains data on permits for residential construction collected in the Census Bureau's Building Permits Survey. Data is aggregated to the county level. Data is only for final permits, not preliminary permits. Final permit data is published in May of the following year. Annual data are available from 1980 through the most recent reporting year, and may also contain imputed values. This dataset is part of the State of the Cities Data Systems (SOCDS).To retrieve the full database, including monthly permit totals and permit totals by metropolitan statistical area or municipalities, please visit: https://socds.huduser.gov/permits/To learn more about the Residential Construction Permit SOCDS, please visit: https://socds.huduser.gov/permits/help.htm, for questions about the spatial attribution of this dataset, please reach out to us at GISHelpdesk@hud.gov. Data Dictionary: DD_Residential Construction Permits by CountyDate of Coverage: 1980 - 2022
In August 2025, there were over ******* permits for new residential construction in the United States. Despite some fluctuations, the number of building permits issued in the past couple of years has been falling. The number of U.S. new home construction starts has also been lower than in previous years.
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Building Permits in Sweden increased to 9087 Units in the second quarter of 2025 from 8272 Units in the first quarter of 2025. This dataset provides - Sweden Building Permits for New Construction- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.
Note, 10/15/2025: We have added a PERMIT_CONDITION column.
This dataset includes information about building permits issued by the City of Chicago from 2006 to the present, excluding permits that have been voided or revoked after issuance. Most types of permits are issued subject to payment of the applicable permit fee. Work under a permit may not begin until the applicable permit fee is paid.
For more information about building permits, see http://www.chicago.gov/permit.
The Department of Buildings (DOB) issues permits for construction and demolition activities in the City of New York. The construction industry must submit an application to DOB with details of the construction job they would like to complete. The primary types of application, aka job type, are: New Building, Demolition, and Alterations Type 1, 2, and 3. Each job type can have multiple work types, such as general construction, boiler, elevator, and plumbing. Each work type will receive a separate permit. (See the DOB Job Application Filings dataset for information about each job application.) Each row/record in this dataset represents the life cycle of one permit for one work type. The dataset is updated daily with new records, and each existing record will be updated as the permit application moves through the approval process to reflect the latest status of the application.
Residential building permits in United States were in short demand in 2018, rising only *** percent across the country. Many large cities have reduced the number of residential building permits, such as Chicago, which handed out ** percent less permits in 2018 than the previous year. Building permits may specifically apply to large housing units with multiple living spaces, to single family houses. Before construction can begin on any new or existing building, a permit must be obtained from the appropriate city council. Building permit numbers have increased significantly in both Houston, Texas and Orlando, Florida metro areas, with **** and **** percent more permits issued in 2018 than 2017, respectively.
Homes are where the heat is
Generally speaking, the construction of new homes can be a good indicator of how local economies are fairing, as it can mean that individuals have acquired enough wealth to own their own home or businesses are expanding. The 2018 residential building permit figures provide some insight into the current demographic of cities, particularly with regards to the job market. For instance, in the „snowbird“state of Florida, ** percent of new residents in Orlando were between ages 25 and **, and presumably their careers still play a large role. Orlando-Kissimmee-Sandford metro area is within close range of engineering firms such as Lockheed Martin, as well as new tech companies, which offer higher salaries and better prospects than other industries. Florida unemployment continues to decline and dropped to *** percent in 2018.
Incidentally, cities that tend to be popular for Americans in their early twenties, tend to be the cities that are reducing their number of new residential building permits (Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; and Los Angeles, California). But this does not mean that these cities are in financial trouble. Chicago’s GDP is steadily growing and unemployment in Illinois was at *** percent in 2018. Bigger and denser cities tend to attract younger groups as they can walk from location to location and remain amongst the excitement that cities have to offer.
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NOTE: The data pipeline for this dataset has been switched to a new feed which should alleviate the previous problem of partial updates (you can still check agency counter to verify the completeness of the records published here). However, we are still working on restoring the owner_name
field, so, for now, some owner names (beyond the redacted ones) may be missing.
The City of Pittsburgh’s Permits, Licenses, and Inspections (PLI) Department regulates construction in Pittsburgh. This dataset contains records of permits issued by PLI from 2019-06-01 until the present. Permit records dating back to 2012 may be found in this historical datasets of PLI permits.
These permit records are used to manage permitting data by City employees and can be used to understand when permits are issued, the nature of the work, where work is occurring, and the dollar value of the project.
The permit records in this dataset are drawn from the Computronix (CX) system which is used to manage these permits.
There are four general classes of permits that are present in these data (building permits, mechanical permits, electrical permits, and “general” permits). Building permits pertain to new construction or construction updates to existing properties. Mechanical permits are obtained for installation or alterations to systems in a building such as HVAC, gas systems, boilers, etc. Electrical permits are required for new work or upgrades to electrical systems such as electrical panels, generators, or wiring. "General permits" is a miscellaneous class that contains the following permit types:
Update: The Building and Development Application (BDA) went live in June 2024. This new application replaced both the primary PLI permit type (the Building Permit) and the main Zoning Application (Zoning and Development Review). By combining these processes into one, the BDA streamlines and simplifies the overall permitting process. As a consequence, if you are looking for building permit records (which previously always had permit_type == "BUILDING"
), you should also look at records with permit_type == "Building & Development Application"
, to ensure you find them all.
More documentation on PLI permits can be found at https://pittsburghpa.gov/pli/pli-permits.
Mechanical, electrical, and building permits are far more prevalent in the dataset because general permits are divided into 10 sub-types.
The field ext_file_num
represents the only UUID for each permit record.
All string text (most fields) were converted to UPPERCASE data. The data are manually entered and often contain non-uniform formatting. While several solutions for cleaning the data exist, including allowing the user to clean the data after accessing it here, text were transformed to UPPERCASE to ensure the data were uniformly formatted in this case. Future improvements to this ETL pipeline may approach this problem with a more sophisticated technique.
We've redacted owner names for permits where the property appears to be currently owner-occupied.
Plumbing permits are not included in this dataset, because the Allegheny County Health Department Plumbing Division is responsible for all plumbing permits in the City of Pittsburgh.
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Graph and download economic data for New Nonresidential Building Authorized by Building Permits for United States (M0256CUSM398NNBR) from Jun 1959 to Dec 1963 about nonresidential, permits, buildings, new, and USA.
Provides description, categorization, cost, and status of permitted work on properties. Includes history of permitted work.
Texas and Florida were the states with most residential building permits issued in 2024, with roughly ******* and ******* permits issued, respectively. On the other side of the spectrum, Alaska and Rhode Island issued fewer permits than any other state. The overall number of building permits for new residential construction in the U.S. has fluctuated a lot in the past years.
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Graph and download economic data for New Private Housing Structures Authorized by Building Permits for Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC (MSA) (CHAR737BPPRIV) from Jan 1988 to Aug 2025 about Charlotte, SC, permits, NC, buildings, new, private, housing, and USA.
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Graph and download economic data for New Private Housing Units Authorized by Building Permits for Ohio (OHBPPRIVSA) from Jan 1988 to Aug 2025 about OH, permits, buildings, new, private, housing, and USA.
The number of permits issued in Sweden for the construction of new residential buildings has remained stable in the second half of 2024 and the first half of 2025. While 1,140 residential building permits were issued in the second quarter of 2025, that figure amounted to 3,004 permits in the second quarter of 2022.
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Building Permits in Poland decreased to 7077 Units in August from 8776 Units in July of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Poland Building Permits - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.
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Building Permits in the United States decreased to 1330 Thousand in August from 1362 Thousand in July of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States Building Permits - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.