Building permit data
AvailableCumberland County, New Jersey building permits
33,127 permits from Cumberland County’s building department since 1991 — type, status, job value, contractor, dates and parcel id. Full history for $250, or the past 12 months for $45/mo.
- Permits
- 33,127
- Permit history
- 1991–2026
- Past 12 months
- 2,232
- Last collected
- Oct 20, 2026
Permits by year
By issue date (application date where no issue date), 2012–2026.
03K6K
5.9K
201220152018202120242026*
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| Year | Permits |
|---|---|
| 2012 | 198 |
| 2013 | 256 |
| 2014 | 241 |
| 2015 | 207 |
| 2016 | 211 |
| 2017 | 301 |
| 2018 | 272 |
| 2019 | 467 |
| 2020 | 665 |
| 2021 | 3,521 |
| 2022 | 5,939 |
| 2023 | 5,767 |
| 2024 | 4,453 |
| 2025 | 4,501 |
| 2026 (YTD) | 1,336 |
Most common permit types
As the department classifies them.
- 0628.8K
- 042.2K
- 131.4K
- 05751
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 valuevaluation98%
- Contractorcontractor0%
Parcel identifier kinds
- Parcel number 33.1K
Sample records
8 real records from the file — its fullest, newest first.
| Permit # | Type | Status | Issued | Parcel ID | ID kind | Job value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92006723 | 04 | P | Jul 31, 2026 | 0609-00326-00017 | Parcel number | $3,200 |
| 92006710 | 06 | P | Jul 23, 2026 | 0609-00278-00036 | Parcel number | $9,693 |
| 92006716 | 06 | P | Jul 23, 2026 | 0609-289 01-00017 | Parcel number | $350 |
| 92006715 | 06 | P | Jul 23, 2026 | 0609-00260-7 06 | Parcel number | $17,507 |
| 92006713 | 06 | P | Jul 23, 2026 | 0609-00305-00006 | Parcel number | $1,750 |
| 92006712 | 04 | P | Jul 14, 2026 | 0609-00291-92 01 | Parcel number | $20,000 |
| 92006719 | 06 | C | Jul 14, 2026 | 0609-00311-00059 | Parcel number | $2,695 |
| 92006711 | 13 | C | Jul 14, 2026 | 0609-00291-92 01 | Parcel number | $500 |
Sources
Collected from 6 datasets published by Cumberland County.
- Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive10,419 rows
- Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive6,786 rows
- Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive4,211 rows
- Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive2,727 rows
- Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive2,575 rows
- Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive1,283 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.