East Baton Rouge Building Permits - Contractor, Owner & Value

Every building permit East Baton Rouge Parish has issued - Baton Rouge, Baker, Zachary and the surrounding area - straight from the City-Parish's own open data portal. ~144k permits (as of 2026-09-28), from 2011 to this week, each carrying a named contractor and a named owner or applicant on most rows.

Low cost

From $0.00005 per record, down to $0.00003 at Gold. Pay only for the records you actually receive - the whole register stays queryable, you are never billed for the scan behind it.

What you get

• Which permit - the permit number and the permit type (New Building, Electrical, Occupancy, Gas Test, Plumbing, Remodel, Demolition, Fence, Swimming Pool, Sign, ), plus the residential/commercial designation
• What the work is - the project description, the subdivision and lot number, and the square footage
• How much - the declared project value and the permit fee
• Where - the full address and the street address, city, state and ZIP, plus latitude and longitude on the permits that carry coordinates
• Who - the contractor (named on most rows - ~44% are the placeholder N/A for owner-issued permits) plus the owner and the applicant where the source records them, with the contractor's address

Modes

• rows (default) - permits matching your filters
• aggregate - counts by permit type or designation

Filters

Permit number, permit type, designation, contractor name, owner name, applicant name, street address, subdivision, city, ZIP, a project-value range, and an issue-date range.

Example inputs

One contractor's new-builds

{ "contractorName": "D.R. Horton", "permitType": "New Building", "maxResults": 50 }

Commercial projects above $1M

{ "designation": "Commercial", "minProjectValue": 1000000, "maxResults": 25 }

All permits in one subdivision

{ "subdivision": "CHEVAL POINT", "maxResults": 100 }

What was issued last month

{ "issuedFrom": "2026-08-01", "issuedTo": "2026-08-31", "maxResults": 200 }

One permit by number

{ "permitNumber": "186061" }

Permit volume by type

{ "mode": "aggregate", "groupBy": "permitType" }

Example output

One permit - permitNumber=186061:

{
 "platform": "ebr-building-permits",
 "source": "east-baton-rouge-parish-building-permits",
 "mode": "rows",
 "recordType": "permit",
 "groupKey": "",
 "groupCount": "",
 "groupBy": "",
 "permitId": "18508237",
 "permitNumber": "186061",
 "permitType": "New Building Permit (R)",
 "designation": "Residential",
 "description": "New single-family residential construction, Cheval Point Lot 100,; LA Plans LLC - Residential License RL.05808",
 "lotNumber": "100",
 "subdivision": "CHEVAL POINT",
 "squareFootage": "3192",
 "projectValue": "300000",
 "permitFee": "0",
 "creationDate": "2026-09-08",
 "issuedDate": "2026-09-25",
 "address": "7013 ARDENNES DR BATON ROUGE LA 70820",
 "streetAddress": "7013 ARDENNES DR",
 "city": "BATON ROUGE",
 "state": "LA",
 "zip": "70820",
 "parish": "East Baton Rouge",
 "ownerName": "",
 "applicantName": "Jeffery Vaccaro",
 "contractorName": "LA Plans LLC",
 "contractorAddress": ", Baton Rouge, LA 70810",
 "latitude": "30.377788497313698",
 "longitude": "-91.221329500538403",
 "sourceUpdatedAt": "2026-09-25"
}

mode=aggregate, groupBy=permitType - one count row per permit type:

Occupancy Permit (C)                24,579
Occupancy Permit (R)                14,613
Electrical Permit (R)               14,419
New Building Permit (R)             13,486
Gas Test Permit (R)                 12,378
Existing Bldg - Remodel Only (R)     9,858
Generator Permit (R)                 9,391

Notes on the data, from the source

• The contractor column is filled on every row - but 44% of those are the placeholder N/A (63,308 of ~144k), because the permit was pulled by the owner rather than a contractor. "Homeowner" (1,862 rows) is the other self-issued spelling. The column is served as the source stores it; a contractor search returns real contractors, and the N/A rows are what an owner-issued permit looks like here.
• The three money and size columns are frequently ZERO, and zero is indistinguishable from "not recorded". The declared project value is 0 on 80,095 rows (55.6%), the permit fee on 57,311 (39.8%) and the square footage on 100,027 (69.5%). That is why the value filter is a range (minProjectValue / maxProjectValue) rather than a "has a value" switch, and why nothing here treats a 0 as a recorded zero-dollar project.
• The city is the same place spelled several ways - "BATON ROUGE" on 110,268 rows, "Baton Rouge" on 24,758, "baton rouge" on 267 and "BATONROUGE" on 38, plus Zachary, Baker, Pride, Greenwell Springs, Slaughter, and 2,142 blanks. The city filter ignores case and matches anywhere in the value, so any spelling finds its permits; without that, a search would silently miss three-quarters of the city.
• The permit number is not unique. 591 permit numbers appear on more than one row (the most-shared appears 52 times) because one permit can carry several lines. The row is the unit here, and this actor returns all ~144k of them.
• The owner is blank on 42,573 rows and the applicant on 29,386 - both are still usable filters, but a share of the register names no owner.
• Two columns are single-valued and therefore not offered as filters: the parish is "East Baton Rouge" on all ~144k rows and the state is "LA" on 143,948.
• Invalid filter inputs (a % in a search, a non-numeric permit number, a negative project value, a malformed date) are rejected rather than passed to the source.

Coverage and freshness

East Baton Rouge Parish building permits, all ~144k records, kept current by the City-Parish. The newest permit issue date at the time of writing was 2026-09-25. Every record carries sourceUpdatedAt; the actor also carries a count guard and a whole-corpus field-coverage guard, so a source that collapses or changes shape fails loudly instead of returning an empty page as success.