Cincinnati, OH Permit Pulse — Week of 2026-08-04

176 new building permits were filed in Cincinnati, OH over the trailing 7 days, with $6,778,165 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 2026-08-04 · Last permit logged 2026-07-30

Permits filed · this week

176

▼ 22.5% vs prior 7 days

Declared construction value

$6,778,165

$46,745 avg per permit

Prior 7-day comparison

227

permits filed previous week

Cincinnati permit review backlog

Of 4,641 Cincinnati permits with a published review status, 145 (3.1%) are still in the review or intake queue — the live backlog. Breakdown by current status:

Permit statusPermitsShare
ISSUED3,86383.2%
CLOSED4429.5%
ROUTE1743.7%
APPLIED1453.1%
WITHDRWN70.2%
APRV_NR40.1%
APPROVED30.1%
ENGRCHNG30.1%

Is the Cincinnati 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. Cincinnati, OH logged 176 permits in the last 7 days versus 227 the week before — a 22.5% decrease, so intake is easing. This tracker refreshes weekly from official municipal feeds, so it reflects the current pace rather than a stale snapshot.

Top contractors this week

#ContractorPermits (7d)Declared value
1 "APOLLO HEATING & A/C" 18 $276,318
2 "LOGAN SERVICES" 7 $73,554
3 "THOMAS & GALBRAITH" 7 $41,600
4 "ZINS PLUMBING" 6 $14,687
5 "PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY" 4 $14,000

What's being built this week

Permit typeCountShare
Plumbing Permits 53 30.1%
HVAC 47 26.7%
CBPCBCP 35 19.9%
Building 26 14.8%
Fire Protection Systems 10 5.7%

Recent permit filings

DateTypeAddressContractorValue
2026-07-30 HVAC 2855 MADISON RD "APOLLO HEATING & A/C" $22,694
2026-07-30 HVAC 1529 BETH LN "APOLLO HEATING & A/C" $8,228
2026-07-30 Plumbing Permits 2217 HIGHLAND AV "1 TOM PLUMBER LLC" $2,500
2026-07-30 Fire Protection Systems 1435 VINE ST "AC ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS INC" $5,000
2026-07-30 Plumbing Permits 6227 BONA VISTA PL "ARLINGHAUS HEATING & AIR CONDITIONING" $4,195
Methodology. Data sourced from Cincinnati'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 2026-08-04.

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