Tacoma, WA Permit Pulse — Week of 2026-08-04

162 new building permits were filed in Tacoma, WA over the trailing 7 days, with $1,693,667 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 2026-08-02

Permits filed · this week

162

▼ 12.0% vs prior 7 days

Declared construction value

$1,693,667

$19,029 avg per permit

Prior 7-day comparison

184

permits filed previous week

Tacoma permit review backlog

Of 5,289 Tacoma permits with a published review status, 4 (0.1%) are still in the review or intake queue — the live backlog. Breakdown by current status:

Permit statusPermitsShare
Permit Issued1,30824.7%
Pending Intake Screening1,17022.1%
Plan Review in Process1,13221.4%
Finaled68012.9%
Cancelled1973.7%
Awaiting Resubmittal/Revisions1092.1%
Permit Fees Due901.7%
Ready to Issue891.7%

Is the Tacoma 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. Tacoma, WA logged 162 permits in the last 7 days versus 184 the week before — a 12.0% 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 No Primary Applicant Available 13 $66,830
2 EBONY COOK 7 $5,000
3 PACIFIC HEATING & COOLING 6 $85,000
4 JENNIFER WELCH 5
5 MERCURIO'S NATURAL GAS SERVICE INC 4 $41,700

What's being built this week

Permit typeCountShare
Building 71 43.8%
Right-of-Way 41 25.3%
Utility Connection 14 8.6%
ePermit 12 7.4%
Site 8 4.9%

Recent permit filings

DateTypeAddressContractorValue
2026-08-02 Historic 601 S 8TH ST No Primary Applicant Available
2026-08-02 Building 3602 MCKINLEY AVE ANTONIO OSORIO
2026-08-01 Building 2106 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR WAY BIRD ELECTRIC $12,000
2026-08-01 Building 1511 N ANDERSON ST INTEGRITY RESIDENTIAL $15,000
2026-07-31 Building 6430 TACOMA MALL BLVD ALL GOOD
Methodology. Data sourced from Tacoma'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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