New Orleans Permits - Building & Trade Permit Register

Every permit the City of New Orleans Department of Safety & Permits has processed, straight from the City's own open data portal. ~348k permits, predominantly 2006 onward.

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

This is a full permit lifecycle, not a snapshot - each row carries its filing date, its issue date, its current status and the date that status was set, plus the counters the City precomputes:

• The permit - number, type (electrical, mechanical, renovation, solar, lead-based paint, ), the internal code and the project description
• The lifecycle - filing date, issue date, current status and its date, next status and its date, daysOpen, daysIssued, inspection count and open comments
• The parties - owner, applicant and contractor, where the City recorded them
• The money - the declared construction value, total fees and bond amount
• The place - site address, parcel PIN, zoning, land use, historic district, subdivision and council district

Modes

• rows (default) - permit records matching your filters
• aggregate - counts by permit type, land use, council district, lead agency, exit reason or zoning

Filters

Permit number, type, current status, open/closed, description, owner, applicant, contractor, address, ZIP, parcel PIN, council district, land use, lead agency, zoning, a minimum construction value, and true issue-date and filing-date ranges.

Example inputs

Large renovations issued this month

{ "type": "Renovation", "minConstructionValue": 250000, "maxResults": 25 }

Permits issued but not yet closed - the open book. Note that

Permit Expired

{ "isClosed": "false", "status": "Permit Issued", "maxResults": 25 }

One contractor's permits - note that a contractor is recorded on about 72% of rows.

{ "contractor": "LLC", "minConstructionValue": 100000, "maxResults": 25 }

A council district, one month

{
  "councilDistrict": "B",
  "issuedFrom": "2026-09-01",
  "issuedTo": "2026-09-30"
}

Example output

A renovation above $250k - type=Renovation, minConstructionValue=250000:

{
 "platform": "nola-permits",
 "source": "nola-one-stop-permits",
 "corpus": "permits",
 "recordKind": "permit",
 "mode": "rows",
 "groupKey": "",
 "groupCount": "",
 "groupBy": "",
 "permitNumber": "26-17120-RNVN",
 "type": "Renovation (Non-Structural)",
 "code": "RNVN",
 "description": "Non-structural renovation of existing outdoor space including drainage improvements, new groundcover, paving, planting, play equipment, and artificial turf. There is no change in occupancy or use.",
 "currentStatus": "Permit Issued",
 "nextStatus": "Inspections Finaled",
 "isClosed": "false",
 "address": "1651 N Tonti St",
 "owner": "Orleans Parish School Board Mc Donough 42 Elementary",
 "applicant": "Angela Morton",
 "contractors": "Land Craft Design Build LLC",
 "leadAgency": "City of New Orleans",
 "filingDate": "2026-06-08",
 "issueDate": "2026-09-25",
 "currentStatusDate": "2026-09-25",
 "nextStatusDate": "2026-12-24",
 "daysOpen": "109",
 "daysIssued": "0",
 "totalInspections": "3",
 "openComments": "0",
 "exitReason": "",
 "constructionValue": "455500",
 "totalFees": "2796",
 "bondAmount": "0",
 "pin": "37W205923",
 "councilDistrict": "D",
 "zoning": "HU-RD2",
 "landUse": "Business Use",
 "landUseShort": "COMM",
 "historicDistrict": "",
 "subdivision": "Seventh Ward",
 "sourceUpdatedAt": "2026-09-26"
}

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

Electrical Service / Circuit / Feeder           56,315
Renovation (Non-Structural)                     46,638
Mechanical Fuel Gas                             39,913
Mechanical HVAC                                 31,469
Electrical Repair / Replacement / Addition      30,609
General Mechanical                              25,195

Notes on the data, from the source

• The applicant is near-universal; owner and contractor are majority but not complete. The applicant is recorded on 99% of rows, the owner on 74% and the contractor on 72% (92,097 and 96,636 blanks out of ~348k). A permit that names every party cannot be promised, so this actor does not.
• Six source columns carry no usable data and are not published: division (the single constant SP on all ~348k rows), building area (zero or null on 96.6%), beds (zero on 94%), baths (zero on 93%), unpaid fees (non-zero on 2%) and the project name (populated on ~1,095 rows, 0.3%). Building area in particular reads like the square footage a permit dataset should have - on this source the usable size proxy is the declared construction value, which is non-zero on 56.6% of rows.
• The open/closed flag is text with case variants - True (305,762) and true (29) mean closed, False (41,285) and false (1,131) mean open. It is normalised to a real true / false on output, and the filter is case-insensitive so none of the 1,160 lowercase rows are unreachable.
• Most permits are closed. Only about 12% (42,416 of ~348k) are open, and the open book is dominated by Permit Issued. A status like Permit Expired is always closed, so pairing it with isClosed=false correctly returns nothing.
• Council districts are letters (A-E), not numbers, and the source carries dirty variants with a trailing comma (B, alongside B) plus 21,795 blanks. The comma is stripped on output.
• There is no ZIP column. ZIP filtering matches digits appearing in the site address.
• The register is overwhelmingly 2006 onward. One row predates it (the earliest filing date is 2002-02-03) and the permit numbering scheme starts in 2006; read the range as "the modern One Stop system", not as a hard floor.
• Status fields are excluded from aggregation. currentStatus has 114 values and nextStatus is populated on only 13% of rows - the first is a lifecycle state better filtered than counted, the second is mostly blank.
• Issue and filing dates are true dates, so these are real ranges, not the year-granularity that text date columns force.

Notes

• Public open data from data.nola.gov. No login, no scraping.
• Permits are issued daily; every record carries sourceUpdatedAt so you can see the feed's currency without running anything.
• Charges are metered per record delivered, so a targeted query costs a fraction of a cent.