Building permit data
AvailableBurlington County, New Jersey building permits
147,096 permits from Burlington County’s building department since 1991 — type, status, job value, contractor, dates and parcel id. Full history for $500, or the past 12 months for $75/mo.
- Permits
- 147,096
- Permit history
- 1991–2026
- Past 12 months
- 17,739
- Last collected
- Oct 20, 2026
Permits by year
By issue date (application date where no issue date), 2012–2026.
015K30K
27.1K
201220152018202120242026*
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| Year | Permits |
|---|---|
| 2012 | 742 |
| 2013 | 513 |
| 2014 | 383 |
| 2015 | 638 |
| 2016 | 1,179 |
| 2017 | 1,420 |
| 2018 | 1,489 |
| 2019 | 2,116 |
| 2020 | 3,152 |
| 2021 | 17,167 |
| 2022 | 27,134 |
| 2023 | 25,970 |
| 2024 | 23,880 |
| 2025 | 22,488 |
| 2026 (YTD) | 13,231 |
Most common permit types
As the department classifies them.
- 06134.5K
- 046.6K
- 133.7K
- 052.3K
Field coverage
Share of records with each column populated.
- Permit numberpermit_number100%
- Permit typepermit_type100%
- Work descriptionwork_description0%
- Statuspermit_status100%
- Application dateapplication_date0%
- Issue dateissue_date100%
- Completion datecomplete_date0%
- Expiration dateexpiration_date0%
- Site addressaddress0%
- Parcel identifierparcel_id100%
- Job valuevaluation99%
- Contractorcontractor0%
Parcel identifier kinds
- Parcel number 147.1K
Sample records
8 real records from the file — its fullest, newest first.
| Permit # | Type | Status | Issued | Parcel ID | ID kind | Job value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20007251 | 06 | P | Aug 5, 2026 | 0321-30003-00168 | Parcel number | $1,000 |
| 20007285 | 06 | P | Aug 5, 2026 | 0321-20014-359.01 | Parcel number | $1,300 |
| 20007252 | 06 | P | Aug 3, 2026 | 0321-30047-01766 | Parcel number | $13,587 |
| 20010870 | 06 | P | Aug 3, 2026 | 0306-101.18-00002 | Parcel number | $1,500 |
| 10002031 | 06 | P | Aug 3, 2026 | 0312-00701-00043 | Parcel number | $4,000 |
| 10000828 | 06 | P | Aug 3, 2026 | 0333-2702.72-00051 | Parcel number | $1,000 |
| 50003213 | 06 | P | Aug 3, 2026 | 0305-00008-00028 | Parcel number | $5,000 |
| 27850000 | 06 | P | Jul 31, 2026 | 0315-147.01-3.11 | Parcel number | $37,639 |
Sources
Collected from 6 datasets published by Burlington County.
- Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive19,293 rows
- Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive16,181 rows
- Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive13,438 rows
- Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive10,762 rows
- Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive9,711 rows
- Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive7,547 rows
Why rows, not permits?Hide
A department can publish the same permit in more than one dataset — a current feed and an archive, or one row per inspection. The permit count above counts each permit number once.