Cleveland, OH Permit Pulse — Week of 2026-08-02

887 new building permits were filed in Cleveland, OH over the trailing 7 days, with $36,189,975 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 2026-08-02 · Last permit logged 2026-08-02

Permits filed · this week

887

▲ 7.1% vs prior 7 days

Declared construction value

$36,189,975

$138,658 avg per permit

Prior 7-day comparison

828

permits filed previous week

Cleveland permit review backlog

Of 6,734 Cleveland permits with a published review status, 2,640 (39.2%) are still in the review or intake queue — the live backlog. Breakdown by current status:

Permit statusPermitsShare
Pending1,95229.0%
ACA Submitted92613.8%
Record Created6589.8%
Awaiting Intake Approval5788.6%
Yes5037.5%
In Review4546.7%
Complaint Accepted4196.2%
Awaiting Payment1682.5%

Is the Cleveland 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. Cleveland, OH logged 887 permits in the last 7 days versus 828 the week before — a 7.1% increase, so intake is accelerating and review backlogs are likely growing. 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 INNER CITY DEMOLITION & DISPOSAL LLC 17
2 RAHMAH SERVICES, LLC 9
3 AVILES CONSTRUCTION COMPANY INC. 8 $3,200
4 Z&Z ROOFING AND CONSTRUCTION, LLC. 7 $121,649
5 JD'S PLUMBING LLC 6 $19,200

What's being built this week

Permit typeCountShare
Construction Project 264 29.8%
Cert. of Disclosure 125 14.1%
Rental Registration 74 8.3%
Lead Safe Certificate 64 7.2%
BH Complaint 63 7.1%

Recent permit filings

DateTypeAddressContractorValue
2026-08-02 Residential Building Construction Permit 11315 EDGEWATER DR SONS, INC. $65,000
2026-08-02 Construction Project 2456 W 6th ST Marks Building Company $14,000
2026-08-01 Commercial Electrical Construction Permi 8300 Bessemer AVE J.A.C. Electric, LLC $20,000
2026-08-01 Construction Project 17416 Invermere AVE ASPEN CONTRACTING INC. $24,876
2026-08-01 Residential Building Construction Permit 17416 Invermere AVE Aspen Contracting Inc $25,540
Methodology. Data sourced from Cleveland'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 2026-08-02.

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