US Building Permits Leads — 71 Jurisdictions, 700+ Towns, 28 States

Fresh building permits from 92 official US city, county and state open-data feeds (71 permit-issuing jurisdictions, 310+ towns with fresh data plus 415 New Jersey municipalities) in one clean schema. Every permit comes with issue date, project value, address, ZIP, coordinates, the contractor (and license or phone where the city publishes them), and normalized trade tags — roofing, solar, HVAC, pool, ADU, new construction and 11 more — so you can pull "every roofing permit over $10,000 in Texas and California this week" in one run.

No API key, no login, no proxies, no scraping of fragile web pages: every row comes straight from a government open-data API and links back to its official source.

Who it's for

You are…	Use it to…
Roofers, solar installers, HVAC, pool & remodeling contractors	See who just pulled a permit in your territory — homeowners and GCs about to spend money — and spot which competitors are winning jobs.
Lead-gen & marketing agencies	Build a daily, trade-filtered permit feed per client (one memory key per client, new permits only).
Building-material suppliers & distributors	Find contractors with active jobs and big projects (new construction ≥ $500k) before they buy materials.
Real-estate investors, lenders & insurers	Track new construction, ADUs and renovations by ZIP; spot neighbourhoods that are heating up.
Analysts, journalists, proptech builders	One normalized schema across 71 jurisdictions instead of 92 different portal formats.

What you get (real rows from 2026-10-20)

Issued	City	Trades	Value (USD)	Address	Contractor
2026-10-20	New York City	roofing, solar	51,250	9521 150 ROAD, Queens	MOMENTUM SOLAR
2026-10-20	New York City	roofing, hvac, electrical	114,997	1775 GRAND CONCOURSE, Bronx	OCS BUILDERS GROUP LLC
2026-10-20	Chicago	solar, remodel	1,007,979	5220 S PULASKI RD	CODY LUDWIG
2026-10-20	Chicago	newConstruction	94,000,000	1331 S WELLS ST	PEPPER CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
2026-10-19	Mesa	roofing, hvac, electrical	171,826	50 W 7TH ST	ZONA RESTORATION LLC
2026-10-19	Cambridge	newConstruction	640,000	44 Russell St, Cambridge, MA 02140	(licensed CS-119631)

Full record (JSON):

{
  "permitId": "NYC-B01471149-I1-GC",
  "permitNumber": "B01471149-I1-GC",
  "city": "New York City", "state": "NY", "cityCode": "NYC",
  "issuedDate": "2026-10-20", "appliedDate": null,
  "permitType": "Initial Permit", "workType": "General Construction",
  "description": "APPLICATION FILED HEREWITH A FOR FACADE RENOVATION AND ROOF REPLACEMENT TO THE REFERENCED2 1/2 STORY BUILDING, TWO (2) FAMILY BUILDING ...",
  "tradeTags": ["roofing", "remodel"], "isNewConstruction": false,
  "estimatedValue": 17945, "status": "Permit Issued",
  "address": "1183 EAST 12 STREET, Brooklyn", "zip": "11230",
  "latitude": 40.620727, "longitude": -73.963377,
  "contractorName": "M. INT'L ENGINEERING PLLC", "contractorLicense": "GC 602538",
  "contractorPhone": null, "contractorAddress": "85-18 212TH STREET",
  "ownerName": null, "propertyUse": null, "housingUnits": null,
  "sourceName": "NYC Department of Buildings — DOB NOW: Build Approved Permits",
  "sourceDataset": "https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/rbx6-tga4",
  "sourceUrl": "https://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/PropertyProfileOverviewServlet?bin=3180263",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-22T07:22:30.210Z"
}

The dataset has three ready-made table views: Permits overview, Contractor leads (contractor, license, phone, trades, value) and Locations (for maps / territory routing). Export to CSV, Excel, JSON, or pull it through the API, webhooks, Zapier/Make or the Apify MCP server.

Coverage (measured 2026-10-22)

71 jurisdictions · 92 datasets · 28 states · 727 distinct places (312 with fresh data in 27 states + 415 New Jersey municipalities from the lagged statewide feed).

Every source below was validated on 2026-10-22: newest permit within 60 days, stable public API (Socrata SODA, ArcGIS REST, CKAN or CARTO), and field mapping checked on up to 1,000 permits issued 2026-09-22 … 2026-10-22. Percentages are measured fill rates in that sample — the share of permits where the field is present. "Places in feed" counts the distinct towns appearing in county/state feeds over the last 60 days.

State	Code	Jurisdiction	Platform	Datasets	Places in feed	Value	Contractor	Address	Lat/lng	Newest permit
AZ	MCPA	Maricopa	ArcGIS	1	1	0%	0%	99%	100%	2026-09-14
AZ	MESA	Mesa	Socrata	1	1	81%	47%	99%	100%	2026-10-19
AZ	SCOT	Scottsdale	ArcGIS	1	1	75%	80%	100%	40%	2026-10-16
AZ	TUC	Tucson	ArcGIS	2	1	57%	0%	100%	100%	2026-10-21
CA	ANA	Anaheim	ArcGIS	1	1	42%	82%	100%	100%	2026-10-21
CA	ATAS	Atascadero	ArcGIS	1	1	0%	0%	100%	100%	2026-10-21
CA	CAMP	Campbell	ArcGIS	1	1	0%	0%	100%	100%	2026-10-16
CA	COR	Corona	Socrata	1	1	58%	0%	100%	100%	2026-10-15
CA	LA	Los Angeles	Socrata	3	1	33%	0%	100%	100%	2026-10-17
CA	MARIN	Marin County	Socrata	1	1	99%	98%	100%	99%	2026-10-21
CA	ROSE	Roseville	Socrata	1	1	100%	0%	0%	0%	2026-09-30
CA	SDCO	San Diego County (unincorporated)	Socrata	1	38	20%	88%	100%	0%	2026-10-21
CA	SF	San Francisco	Socrata	1	1	100%	0%	100%	100%	2026-10-20
CA	SJ	San Jose	CKAN	1	1	34%	85%	100%	0%	2026-10-19
CO	DEN	Denver	ArcGIS	2	1	88%	99%	100%	100%	2026-10-20
CT	HFD	Hartford	ArcGIS	1	1	98%	0%	100%	0%	2026-10-21
DC	DC	Washington	ArcGIS	1	1	0%	48%	100%	100%	2026-10-16
FL	MIA	Miami	ArcGIS	1	1	93%	94%	100%	100%	2026-10-20
FL	ORL	Orlando	Socrata	1	1	93%	96%	100%	0%	2026-10-21
FL	PSL	Port St. Lucie	ArcGIS	1	1	0%	0%	100%	100%	2026-10-16
FL	TLH	Tallahassee	ArcGIS	1	1	100%	99%	100%	100%	2026-10-19
FL	TPA	Tampa	ArcGIS	1	1	0%	0%	100%	100%	2026-10-16
IL	CHI	Chicago	Socrata	1	1	87%	97%	100%	99%	2026-10-20
IL	COOK	Cook County (suburban municipalities)	Socrata	1	68	66%	67%	0%	0%	2026-10-14
IL	NRML	Normal	ArcGIS	1	1	100%	96%	100%	100%	2026-09-30
KS	OPKS	Overland Park	ArcGIS	1	1	100%	0%	100%	89%	2026-10-13
KY	LOU	Louisville	ArcGIS	1	52	98%	13%	100%	100%	2026-10-21
LA	BTR	Baton Rouge (East Baton Rouge Parish)	Socrata	1	1	66%	61%	100%	99%	2026-10-20
LA	NOLA	New Orleans	Socrata	1	1	57%	74%	100%	0%	2026-10-22
MA	BOS	Boston	CKAN	1	1	99%	1%	100%	98%	2026-10-20
MA	CAM	Cambridge	Socrata	4	1	66%	98%	100%	100%	2026-10-20
MD	BAL	Baltimore	ArcGIS	1	1	87%	0%	100%	100%	2026-10-21
MD	BACO	Baltimore County	ArcGIS	3	1	38%	1%	100%	100%	2026-10-21
MD	MOCO	Montgomery County	Socrata	4	30	28%	0%	99%	97%	2026-10-22
MI	DET	Detroit	ArcGIS	2	1	37%	57%	100%	100%	2026-10-20
MN	MPLS	Minneapolis	ArcGIS	1	1	54%	100%	100%	100%	2026-10-20
MO	KC	Kansas City	Socrata	1	1	1%	0%	100%	96%	2026-10-16
NC	DUR	Durham (City & County)	ArcGIS	1	1	100%	0%	0%	99%	2026-10-16
NC	MECK	Mecklenburg County (Charlotte & towns)	ArcGIS	1	8	100%	0%	100%	100%	2026-10-20
NC	RAL	Raleigh	ArcGIS	2	1	27%	95%	100%	100%	2026-10-19
NC	WAKE	Wake County (unincorporated & towns)	ArcGIS	1	15	99%	0%	100%	100%	2026-10-20
NJ	NJ	New Jersey (statewide) ⏳	Socrata	1	415	96%	0%	0%	0%	2026-08-07
NV	HEN	Henderson	ArcGIS	2	1	0%	0%	96%	0%	2026-10-20
NY	NYC	New York City	Socrata	1	1	100%	100%	100%	100%	2026-10-20
OH	CIN	Cincinnati	Socrata	1	1	94%	99%	100%	41%	2026-10-19
OH	CLE	Cleveland	ArcGIS	1	1	89%	91%	100%	100%	2026-10-17
OH	COL	Columbus	ArcGIS	1	1	41%	93%	100%	100%	2026-10-19
OR	MED	Medford	ArcGIS	1	1	93%	99%	100%	100%	2026-10-20
OR	JACO	Phoenix & Talent	ArcGIS	1	1	77%	0%	100%	100%	2026-10-13
OR	PDX	Portland	ArcGIS	1	1	100%	0%	100%	100%	2026-10-01
OR	SLM	Salem	ArcGIS	1	1	0%	0%	100%	100%	2026-10-20
PA	PHL	Philadelphia	CARTO	1	1	0%	88%	100%	100%	2026-10-21
PA	PGH	Pittsburgh	CKAN	1	1	96%	50%	100%	100%	2026-10-20
SC	CHS	Charleston	ArcGIS	1	1	100%	0%	15%	75%	2026-10-14
SC	SUM	Sumter	ArcGIS	1	3	0%	0%	100%	100%	2026-10-16
SD	SXF	Sioux Falls	ArcGIS	1	1	100%	0%	100%	100%	2026-10-17
TN	NASH	Nashville	ArcGIS	2	15	99%	100%	81%	99%	2026-10-20
TX	ARL	Arlington	ArcGIS	1	1	66%	0%	100%	100%	2026-10-21
TX	AUS	Austin	Socrata+ArcGIS	4	1	17%	24%	100%	90%	2026-10-20
TX	CSTX	College Station	Socrata	1	1	45%	0%	100%	100%	2026-10-14
TX	COLLIN	Collin County	Socrata	1	24	37%	98%	100%	0%	2026-10-21
TX	FTW	Fort Worth	ArcGIS	1	1	23%	0%	100%	98%	2026-10-21
TX	SA	San Antonio	ArcGIS	1	1	0%	99%	100%	100%	2026-10-16
TX	SMTX	San Marcos	ArcGIS	1	1	0%	0%	100%	100%	2026-10-21
TX	TYLR	Tyler	ArcGIS	1	1	33%	95%	100%	100%	2026-10-09
VA	NOR	Norfolk	Socrata	1	1	90%	0%	100%	94%	2026-10-20
WA	BELL	Bellevue	ArcGIS	1	1	0%	97%	100%	100%	2026-10-20
WA	EVE	Everett	Socrata	1	1	95%	94%	100%	95%	2026-10-20
WA	PIERCE	Pierce County (unincorporated)	ArcGIS	1	1	0%	0%	100%	100%	2026-10-15
WA	SEA	Seattle	Socrata	3	1	59%	69%	100%	100%	2026-10-20
WA	TAC	Tacoma	ArcGIS	1	1	76%	0%	99%	100%	2026-10-20
⏳ = lagged feed (New Jersey DCA publishes ~2–3 months behind; included only when you pick NJ or tick Include lagged statewide feeds; measured on 150 days). Maricopa (AZ) refreshes about monthly.

County & multi-town feeds: Cook County IL (68 suburban towns via the Assessor), Collin County TX (24 cities via the appraisal district), San Diego County CA (38 communities, unincorporated), Montgomery County MD (30), Louisville Metro KY (52 incl. small cities), Nashville-Davidson TN (15), Wake County NC (15), Mecklenburg County NC (8), Sumter SC (3), New Jersey statewide (415). Use the Municipalities input to filter them to a town. Note: a county feed contains only the permits that the county (or its assessor) records — cities that run their own permit office may be partly missing from it.

Feeds are refreshed by the jurisdictions themselves, mostly daily (a few lag 1–3 days).

Input

Field	What it does
cities	Jurisdiction codes from the table. API also accepts names: "Boston", "Detroit".
municipalities	Town names inside county/state feeds, e.g. ["Plano","Bethesda","Hoboken"] (also matches single-city datasets of that name).
allJurisdictions	With no city/state/municipality chosen the actor queries a fast sample of 20 big datasets; tick this to query all 92.
includeLaggedSources	Add the New Jersey statewide feed (≈2–3 months behind).
states	2-letter states, e.g. ["CA","TX"].
zipCodes	5-digit ZIPs.
daysBack / issuedFrom / issuedTo	Issue-date window (default: last 7 days).
trades	Any of: roofing, solar, hvac, electrical, plumbing, pool, adu, newConstruction, demolition, remodel, windowsDoors, siding, signage, fence, masonry, fireProtection, deck.
minValue	Minimum declared project value (USD).
newConstructionOnly	New buildings / dwellings only.
keyword	Text match on description/type (server-side, fast).
maxResults	Cap (default 100). Shared fairly across datasets; unused share goes to datasets with more.
newSinceLastRun + stateKey	Daily feed: skip permits already delivered under this memory key.
sourceTimeoutSecs	Time budget; a slow city portal is cut off and the run still succeeds.

Example — roofing & solar jobs over $10k in California and Texas, last 14 days:

{ "states": ["CA", "TX"], "trades": ["roofing", "solar"], "minValue": 10000, "daysBack": 14, "maxResults": 500 }

Example — daily new-construction feed for a supplier in Boston/Cambridge:

{ "cities": ["BOS", "CAM"], "newConstructionOnly": true, "daysBack": 3, "newSinceLastRun": true, "stateKey": "boston-supplier" }

Output fields

Field	Type	Description
permitId	string	Unique, stable ID (CITY-permitNumber) — use it to dedupe in your CRM
permitNumber	string	Permit number as published
city, state	string	Municipality of the permit (for county/state feeds: the town on the record)
cityCode, jurisdiction	string	Permit-issuing jurisdiction code and name (e.g. COOK, "Cook County (suburban municipalities)")
issuedDate, appliedDate	date	YYYY-MM-DD
permitType, workType	string	As published by the city
description	string	Work description
tradeTags	string[]	Normalized trades (see list above)
isNewConstruction	boolean	New building / dwelling (city's own new-work class + text, minor items like decks and fences excluded)
estimatedValue	number	Declared project value, USD
status	string	Permit status
address, zip, latitude, longitude		Site location (coordinates validated)
contractorName, contractorLicense, contractorPhone, contractorAddress	string	Where the city publishes them
ownerName	string	Property owner only when it is an organisation (LLC, Inc, trust, church, city…). Private individuals are never output.
propertyUse, housingUnits		Use / occupancy and units added
sourceName, sourceDataset, sourceUrl	string	Official source; sourceUrl is the permit's own page where the city has one
scrapedAt	datetime	When this run fetched it

The run's key-value store also holds OUTPUT_SUMMARY: per-city status (ok / partial / failed), rows scanned, results, seconds, and duplicates removed.

Pricing

$1.50 per 1,000 permits (pay per result — you pay only for permits delivered; no start fee). 100 permits = $0.15. A daily feed of 200 new permits ≈ $9/month.

How that compares (prices read on 2026-10-22):

Option	Price per 1,000 permits	Notes
This actor	$1.50	71 jurisdictions / 727 places, trade tags, contractors, per-source status
Most-used Apify permit actors	$2.00 – $10.00 (+ start fees up to $0.05/run)	e.g. $2 (pink_comic, paxiq, civic-data-tools), $3 (owlabee, + $0.01 per jurisdiction), $5 (intelscrape), $8, $10
Shovels	$599/month for 25,000 records (≈ $24 / 1,000)	National coverage, subscription
Gryd by BuildZoom	from $125–150/month; API only on custom Premium	Subscription
ConstructConnect	from $129/month per market	Commercial bid projects

Why this one

• Official sources only — government open-data APIs, every row links back. No scraping that breaks next week.
• Trade tags that actually work — 17 normalized trades matched on type, work class and description (85%+ of permits tagged), with a smart new-construction flag that ignores "new deck" and "new fence".
• Contractor leads view — contractor name, license and phone where published (NYC, Austin, Orlando, Mesa, Raleigh, Tallahassee, San Diego County, Anaheim, Nashville, Cleveland, Miami, Denver…).
• Real breadth, honestly counted — 71 permit-issuing jurisdictions in 28 states. Some Store actors advertise "248 cities" while most runs fail; every source here passed a freshness and field check on 2026-10-22, and the table shows the measured fill rates.
• Never fails because one city is down — each portal is isolated with retries and a time budget; you still get every other city, and the summary tells you exactly which one had a problem.
• Fair results — your maxResults is shared across cities, so one huge city (NYC, LA) can't crowd out the rest.
• Built for daily feeds — newSinceLastRun memory per saved search, stable permitId, dedup across datasets.
• Fast — filters (date, value, keyword) run on the city servers; a default run (fast 20-dataset sample) finishes in seconds; all 92 datasets in about a minute.

FAQ

How fresh is the data? As fresh as each city publishes — most update daily; set daysBack to 3–7 for a daily feed.

Why is value / contractor empty for some cities? The city does not publish it (see the coverage table). We never guess or fill in data.

Does it include homeowner names or phone numbers? No. Only organisation owner names (companies, trusts, institutions) and contractor contact details exactly as the city publishes them.

Can I get history? Yes — set issuedFrom / issuedTo (most feeds go back years) and raise maxResults.

A city I need is missing. Open an issue on the Issues tab with the city name; cities with an official open-data permit feed are added first (each source is one config entry).

Why not every US city? There are ~19,000 US municipalities, but only a few hundred publish permit-level records through a public API, and only New Jersey publishes a statewide permit-level file. We searched the Socrata catalog, ArcGIS Online/Hub, CKAN and OpenDataSoft portals exhaustively (2026-10-22) and include every fresh, stable, US building-permit feed we found. Examples of big-city feeds we checked and had to reject: Phoenix (open-data file last updated 2023), Dallas (stale since 2020), Las Vegas (only 3 permits in the last 30 days), Honolulu (ends June 2025), Gainesville and Somerville (stale). Nationwide coverage beyond this needs paid aggregators or scraping login-protected permit portals, which this actor deliberately does not do.

Is this legal to use? The data is published by the governments as open data. You are responsible for complying with marketing laws (e.g. TCPA, CAN-SPAM, do-not-call) when you contact anyone.

Changelog

See ./CHANGELOG.md. v1.1 (2026-10-22): 17 → 71 jurisdictions (92 datasets, 28 states), generic ArcGIS/Socrata/CKAN adapters, municipality filter, county & statewide feeds. v1.0: 6 → 17 jurisdictions, new schema, filters, per-source isolation.

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Data source: official open-data portals of the jurisdictions listed above. This actor is not affiliated with any government agency. Data is provided as published; check the official record (sourceUrl) before relying on it.