City building permits (Chicago, Seattle, Austin)

Issued building permits from open city portals: permit type, work class, status, valuation and contractor business name. Street addresses are removed and coordinates rounded.

60 rows, last pulled 2026-10-13 (refreshed weekly). Records dated 2026-10-08 to 2026-10-12 (issueDate).
License: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication for our compilation). The underlying records are public records or open government data. We dedicate our selection and formatting to the public domain under CC0 1.0.

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Where the data comes from

City open-data portals (Chicago, Seattle, Austin). Source.

Made with the Apify actor building-permits-leads (disclosure: we maintain it; it is a paid pay-per-event tool). Contact fields, street addresses and personal-name fields are removed from this free sample.

Data dictionary

ColumnTypeDescription
permitIdstringPermit identifier at the city.
recordTypestringpermit or violation.
cityCodestringShort city code used by the actor.
citystringCity name.
statestringUS state or territory (two-letter code).
permitTypestringPermit type.
workClassstringWork class, for example new or reroof.
descriptionstringFree-text description from the source (truncated to 300 characters).
statusstringStatus of the record at the source.
applicationDatedateApplication date.
issueDatedateIssue date.
recordDatedateRecord date used for freshness filtering.
valuationintegerDeclared project valuation in USD.
latitudenumberLatitude rounded to 2 decimals (about 1 km).
longitudenumberLongitude rounded to 2 decimals (about 1 km).
contractorBusinessstringContractor business name as filed.
sourceUrlurlURL of the source feed or portal page the row came from.
sourcePortalstringCity open-data portal and dataset id.
scrapedAtdatetimeUTC timestamp when the actor fetched the row.

First rows (8 of 19 columns)

permitIdrecordTypecityCodecitystatepermitTypeworkClassdescription
B200515267permitCHIChicagoILEXPRESS PERMIT PROGRAMElectrical WorkLOW VOLTAGE/COMMUNICATION ELECTRICAL WORK. ALTER EXISTING OT
B200515403permitCHIChicagoILEXPRESS PERMIT PROGRAMElectrical WorkLINE VOLTAGE ELECTRICAL WORK. NEW PERMANENT 200 AMP SERVICE
B200515418permitCHIChicagoILEXPRESS PERMIT PROGRAMElectrical WorkLINE VOLTAGE ELECTRICAL WORK. NEW PERMANENT 200 AMP SERVICE
B200515439permitCHIChicagoILEXPRESS PERMIT PROGRAMElectrical WorkLINE VOLTAGE ELECTRICAL WORK. ADD 2 CIRCUITS TO EXISTING 200
B200515448permitCHIChicagoILEXPRESS PERMIT PROGRAMDetached Frame GarageNEW DETACHED WOOD FRAME GARAGE. DIMENSIONS AND SETBACKS PER

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