Building permit data

Available

Gloucester County, New Jersey building permits

89,867 permits from Gloucester County’s building department since 1993 — type, status, job value, contractor, dates and parcel id. Full history for $500, or the past 12 months for $75/mo.

Permits
89,867
Permit history
1993–2026
Past 12 months
11,838
Last collected
Oct 20, 2026

Permits by year

By issue date (application date where no issue date), 2012–2026.

010K20K
16.5K
201220152018202120242026*
* 2026 is year to date.
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YearPermits
2012147
2013261
2014400
2015401
2016387
2017346
2018586
2019493
20201,292
202111,069
202216,451
202315,199
202415,456
202516,173
2026 (YTD)8,817

Most common permit types

As the department classifies them.

  • 0681.1K
  • 045.1K
  • 132.3K
  • 051.4K

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 89.9K

Sample records

8 real records from the file — its fullest, newest first.

Permit #TypeStatusIssuedParcel IDID kindJob value
8001529206PAug 4, 20260802-82.01-00065Parcel number$500
8001529306PAug 4, 20260802-82.01-00065Parcel number$13,465
5000718806PAug 3, 20260820-356.08-00013Parcel number$42,101
8001544606PAug 3, 20260802-00307-00006Parcel number$500
8001544706PAug 3, 20260802-5.03-00001Parcel number$500
8001531806PAug 3, 20260802-5.44-00003Parcel number$9,000
1000792306PAug 3, 20260806-00103-00001Parcel number$19,975
8001529906PAug 3, 20260802-5.17-00006Parcel number$11,465

Sources

Collected from 6 datasets published by Gloucester County.

  • Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive12,696 rows
  • Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive11,787 rows
  • Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive9,446 rows
  • Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive6,683 rows
  • Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive5,636 rows
  • Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive5,244 rows
Why rows, not permits?

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.

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