Albany, OR Permit Pulse — Week of 2026-08-03

61 new building permits were filed in Albany, OR over the trailing 7 days, with $0 in declared construction value. Filing volume is the clearest public signal of how busy — or backed up — a city's building department is right now. Live data from official municipal permit-issuance feeds.

By Marcus Reeves · Updated 2026-08-03 · Last permit logged 2026-07-31

Permits filed · this week

61

▼ 7.6% vs prior 7 days

Declared construction value

$0

Prior 7-day comparison

66

permits filed previous week

Albany permit review backlog

Of 397 Albany permits with a published review status, 4 (1.0%) are still in the review or intake queue — the live backlog. Breakdown by current status:

Permit statusPermitsShare
Issued17844.8%
Application Received12732.0%
Pending Review6115.4%
Inspections Completed92.3%
Fees Due71.8%
Pending41.0%
Completeness Letter41.0%
Plan Review Letter30.8%

Is the Albany building department backed up?

Permit-filing volume is the best public proxy for permitting load: the more permits a building department takes in, the heavier its review queue. Albany, OR logged 61 permits in the last 7 days versus 66 the week before — a 7.6% decrease, so intake is easing. This tracker refreshes weekly from official municipal feeds, so it reflects the current pace rather than a stale snapshot.

What's being built this week

Permit typeCountShare
Commercial & Multi-Family - Electrical 15 24.6%
One- & Two-Family - Mechanical 9 14.8%
One- & Two-Family - Electrical 8 13.1%
One- & Two-Family - Plumbing 7 11.5%
Commercial - Alteration or Addition 5 8.2%
Methodology. Data sourced from Albany's official municipal permit-issuance feed and refreshed daily. Permits are counted by issue date. Declared construction value reflects what the applicant declared on the permit application and is filtered to remove obvious data-entry errors (values under $1,000 or above $50M are excluded from totals). "This week" means the trailing 7 days through 2026-08-03.

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