US Construction Permit Pulse

Live national building-permit volume, refreshed daily from 60 official municipal feeds across the United States. Free to view, embed, and cite.

Last updated 2026-05-17 · Data source: official municipal permit-issuance feeds aggregated by PermitGrab.

Permits filed · last 7 days

20,017

▼ 20.5% vs prior 7 days

Permits filed · last 30 days

77,159

▲ 103.7% vs prior 30 days

Active contractors tracked

83,631

60 US cities + counties

Top 10 cities · last 7 days

#CityPermits (7d)
1 San Antonio, TX 1,971
2 Fort Worth, TX 1,373
3 Indianapolis, IN 994
4 Columbus, OH 957
5 Atlanta, GA 879
6 Omaha, NE 799
7 Cleveland, OH 780
8 Polk County, FL 730
9 Miami, FL 726
10 Cape Coral, FL 687

Top 10 states · last 30 days

#StateCitiesPermits (30d)
1 TX 8 15,708
2 FL 6 11,242
3 NY 2 10,112
4 CA 6 8,817
5 OH 3 4,922
6 DC 1 3,699
7 AZ 6 3,334
8 IL 1 2,855
9 WA 4 2,339
10 PA 1 2,161

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Suggested citation PermitGrab Construction Pulse. "US Building-Permit Volume by City + State." Last updated 2026-05-17. Retrieved from https://permitgrab.com/tools/permit-pulse.

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Methodology: counts reflect building permits filed in our 60+ official municipal data feeds, all of which are sellable cities (active sources publishing within the last 14 days). Source-side reporting lag varies — some cities publish daily, some weekly. Future-dated source records (occasional data-entry errors in municipal portals) are excluded. Powered by PermitGrab's official permit aggregation pipeline.

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