Building permit data
AvailableSalem County, New Jersey building permits
16,035 permits from Salem County’s building department since 1993 — type, status, job value, contractor, dates and parcel id. Full history for $250, or the past 12 months for $45/mo.
- Permits
- 16,035
- Permit history
- 1993–2026
- Past 12 months
- 1,648
- Last collected
- Oct 20, 2026
Permits by year
By issue date (application date where no issue date), 2012–2026.
02K4K
3.3K
201220152018202120242026*
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| Year | Permits |
|---|---|
| 2012 | 32 |
| 2013 | 57 |
| 2014 | 48 |
| 2015 | 67 |
| 2016 | 63 |
| 2017 | 76 |
| 2018 | 109 |
| 2019 | 165 |
| 2020 | 300 |
| 2021 | 2,159 |
| 2022 | 3,287 |
| 2023 | 2,747 |
| 2024 | 2,974 |
| 2025 | 2,468 |
| 2026 (YTD) | 1,255 |
Most common permit types
As the department classifies them.
- 0613.7K
- 041.2K
- 13746
- 05307
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 16K
Sample records
8 real records from the file — its fullest, newest first.
| Permit # | Type | Status | Issued | Parcel ID | ID kind | Job value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00002056 | 06 | P | Aug 6, 2026 | 1701-00027-00504 | Parcel number | $75,582 |
| 00002059 | 06 | P | Aug 6, 2026 | 1701-00109-00004 | Parcel number | $15,199 |
| 00002057 | 06 | P | Aug 6, 2026 | 1701-00038-00104 | Parcel number | $12,700 |
| 00002055 | 06 | P | Aug 6, 2026 | 1701-00064-02120 | Parcel number | $1,800 |
| 00002047 | 06 | P | Aug 6, 2026 | 1701-00054-00002 | Parcel number | $400 |
| 00002062 | 06 | P | Aug 6, 2026 | 1701-00109-00004 | Parcel number | $700 |
| 00002046 | 06 | P | Aug 6, 2026 | 1701-00062-00201 | Parcel number | $3,000 |
| 31864000 | 06 | P | Jul 31, 2026 | 1708-01707-00020 | Parcel number | $3,550 |
Sources
Collected from 6 datasets published by Salem County.
- Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive4,116 rows
- Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive2,455 rows
- Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive1,920 rows
- Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive1,417 rows
- Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive1,106 rows
- Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive885 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.