Building permit data
AvailableUnion County, New Jersey building permits
153,910 permits from Union County’s building department since 1990 — type, status, job value, contractor, dates and parcel id. Full history for $500, or the past 12 months for $75/mo.
- Permits
- 153,910
- Permit history
- 1990–2026
- Past 12 months
- 14,062
- Last collected
- Oct 20, 2026
Permits by year
By issue date (application date where no issue date), 2012–2026.
012.5K25K
23.5K
201220152018202120242026*
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| Year | Permits |
|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,381 |
| 2013 | 1,755 |
| 2014 | 1,713 |
| 2015 | 1,854 |
| 2016 | 1,955 |
| 2017 | 2,273 |
| 2018 | 1,941 |
| 2019 | 2,157 |
| 2020 | 3,085 |
| 2021 | 18,678 |
| 2022 | 23,523 |
| 2023 | 21,891 |
| 2024 | 18,750 |
| 2025 | 18,179 |
| 2026 (YTD) | 10,335 |
Most common permit types
As the department classifies them.
- 06138.8K
- 138.4K
- 053.9K
- 042.8K
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 valuevaluation88%
- Contractorcontractor0%
Parcel identifier kinds
- Parcel number 153.9K
Sample records
8 real records from the file — its fullest, newest first.
| Permit # | Type | Status | Issued | Parcel ID | ID kind | Job value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10047361 | 06 | P | Aug 6, 2026 | 2020-00510-00011 | Parcel number | $2,838 |
| 10047359 | 06 | P | Aug 6, 2026 | 2020-02207-00031 | Parcel number | $2,500 |
| 10047358 | 06 | P | Aug 6, 2026 | 2020-00707-00043 | Parcel number | $100 |
| 10047378 | 06 | P | Aug 6, 2026 | 2020-03408-00008 | Parcel number | $8,500 |
| 10047427 | 13 | P | Aug 6, 2026 | 2020-02704-33.01 | Parcel number | $100 |
| 10047362 | 06 | P | Aug 6, 2026 | 2020-03503-00030 | Parcel number | $2,784 |
| 10047463 | 05 | P | Aug 6, 2026 | 2020-02814-00002 | Parcel number | $239,700 |
| 10047364 | 06 | P | Aug 6, 2026 | 2020-02301-00018 | Parcel number | $1,909 |
Sources
Collected from 6 datasets published by Union County.
- Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive33,365 rows
- Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive19,483 rows
- Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive10,586 rows
- Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive10,194 rows
- Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive9,972 rows
- Unnamed layernj dca · historical archive9,043 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.