Saint Paul, MN Permit Pulse — Week of 2026-07-17

681 new building permits were filed in Saint Paul, MN 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 2026-07-17 · Last permit logged 2026-07-16

Permits filed · this week

681

▼ 9.2% vs prior 7 days

Declared construction value

$0

Prior 7-day comparison

750

permits filed previous week

Saint Paul permit review backlog

Of 3,385 Saint Paul permits with a published review status, 3 (0.1%) are still in the review or intake queue — the live backlog. Breakdown by current status:

Permit statusPermitsShare
Issued2,90385.8%
Complete2878.5%
Fees Due1634.8%
Fees Paid120.4%
Submitted - Online110.3%
In Process40.1%
In Review30.1%
Cancelled10.0%

Is the Saint Paul 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. Saint Paul, MN logged 681 permits in the last 7 days versus 750 the week before — a 9.2% 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 sun ray plumbing & HEATING 43
2 DEAN'S PROFESSIONAL PLUMBING INC dba DEAN'S HOME SERVICES 25
3 MSP Plumbing Heating and Air 23
4 Spark electric 13
5 InnerSpec 11

What's being built this week

Permit typeCountShare
Electrical Contractor Residential Repair 129 18.9%
Residential Contractor Express - Roofing 76 11.2%
Mechanical Residential Contractor Refrig 56 8.2%
Truth-In-Sale-Housing (TISH) Report - Si 54 7.9%
SPRWS - Existing Building - Lead Replace 46 6.8%

Recent permit filings

DateTypeAddressContractorValue
2026-07-16 Storage Container Permit 459 PORTLAND AVE Unit: UNIT 2 SAINT PAUL MN 55102 Scott Pollock
2026-07-16 Truth-In-Sale-Housing (TISH) Report - Si 223 WALNUT ST SAINT PAUL MN 55102 Richard Kilian
2026-07-16 Electrical Contractor Residential Repair 1377 NEBRASKA AVE W SAINT PAUL MN 55108 JM ELECTRIC LLC
2026-07-16 Electrical Commercial Repair/Alter 121 7TH PL E SAINT PAUL MN 55101 Gephart Electric Co., Inc.
2026-07-16 Meter Hooding 777 RAYMOND AVE SAINT PAUL MN 55114 Xcel Energy
Methodology. Data sourced from Saint Paul'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 2026-07-17.

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