How do I look up a building permit in Alabama?

Building permits in Alabama are public records filed with each city or county building department. PermitGrab tracks 1 Alabama cities and republishes the records — pick your city below to browse permits by address, contractor, type and value, free.

Are building permits public record in Alabama?

Yes. Building permits are public records in Alabama. Cities publish them through open-data portals and permit systems; PermitGrab aggregates available official feeds and shows each market's source date.

How many building permits were filed in Alabama recently?

Across the 1 Alabama cities PermitGrab tracks, 993 permits were filed in the last 30 days, out of 3,744 on record.

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Alabama Building Permit Lookup — Free

Building permits are public record. PermitGrab tracks 1 Alabama city with live data pulled from official city permit systems — browse by address, contractor, permit type and value. No signup needed to look.

3,744

Permits on record

993

Filed last 30 days

Cities covered

City	Last 30 days	On record	Newest permit	Status
Birmingham, AL	993	3,744	2026-09-22	fresh — under 24h

How to look up a building permit in Alabama

Pick the city where the property sits — permits are filed with the local building department, not the state. Use the table above for any of the 1 Alabama cities we cover.
Search by address or contractor. Each city page lists recent permits with the address, permit type, declared value, status and (where the city publishes it) the contractor of record.
Open a record to review the details that its public source provides. Available fields can include a project description, owner or applicant information, contractor details, and related permit history.

PermitGrab refreshes Alabama permit data as official municipal sources publish it; the table shows the newest source date we hold for each city. If your city isn't listed, the building department may not publish a public data feed yet.

Contractors: turn these permits into leads.

Access current permit records in covered Alabama markets, plus contractor, owner, and project fields where the public source provides them. Source dates and available fields vary by city.

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