Hillsborough County, FL Permit Pulse — Week of 2026-08-05

93 new building permits were filed in Hillsborough County, FL over the trailing 7 days, with $27,452,484 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 2026-08-05 · Last permit logged 2026-07-31

Permits filed · this week

93

▲ 6.9% vs prior 7 days

Declared construction value

$27,452,484

$298,396 avg per permit

Prior 7-day comparison

87

permits filed previous week

Hillsborough County permit review backlog

Of 7,468 Hillsborough County permits with a published review status, 3 (0.0%) are still in the review or intake queue — the live backlog. Breakdown by current status:

Permit statusPermitsShare
Issued4,64962.3%
Complete1,10614.8%
In Process86011.5%
Awaiting Client Reply6258.4%
Open1291.7%
Revision540.7%
About to Expire340.5%
Pending30.0%

Is the Hillsborough County 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. Hillsborough County, FL logged 93 permits in the last 7 days versus 87 the week before — a 6.9% 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 BLUE SKIES UNLIMITED CONSTRUCTION 1 $37,871

What's being built this week

Permit typeCountShare
Residential Miscellaneous 34 36.6%
Residential New Construction 24 25.8%
Commercial Miscellaneous 12 12.9%
Residential Building Alterations (Renova 7 7.5%
Commercial New Construction 6 6.5%

Recent permit filings

DateTypeAddressContractorValue
2026-07-30 Residential Miscellaneous 2205 Williams Rd BLUE SKIES UNLIMITED CONSTRUCTION $37,871
Methodology. Data sourced from Hillsborough County'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 2026-08-05.

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