Building permit data
AvailableArlington County, Virginia building permits
78,381 permits from Arlington County’s building department since 1987 — type, status, job value, contractor, dates and parcel id. Full history for $250, or the past 12 months for $45/mo.
- Permits
- 78,381
- Permit history
- 1987–2026
- Past 12 months
- 1,950
- Last collected
- Oct 19, 2026
Permits by year
By issue date (application date where no issue date), 2012–2026.
02K4K
3.6K
201220152018202120242026*
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| Year | Permits |
|---|---|
| 2012 | 2,857 |
| 2013 | 3,219 |
| 2014 | 3,089 |
| 2015 | 3,626 |
| 2016 | 3,507 |
| 2017 | 3,209 |
| 2018 | 3,394 |
| 2019 | 3,300 |
| 2020 | 2,798 |
| 2021 | 2,662 |
| 2022 | 2,174 |
| 2023 | 2,172 |
| 2024 | 1,958 |
| 2025 | 2,141 |
| 2026 (YTD) | 1,532 |
Most common permit types
As the department classifies them.
- FBC/UP13
- FBCN/UP6
- FBC/A1
- FBCN/A1
Field coverage
Share of records with each column populated.
- Permit numberpermit_number100%
- Permit typepermit_type0%
- Work descriptionwork_description0%
- Statuspermit_status0%
- Application dateapplication_date0%
- Issue dateissue_date100%
- Completion datecomplete_date89%
- Expiration dateexpiration_date0%
- Site addressaddress0%
- Parcel identifierparcel_id100%
- Job valuevaluation96%
- Contractorcontractor0%
Parcel identifier kinds
- Parcel number 78.4K
- None 20
Sample records
8 real records from the file — its fullest, newest first.
| Permit # | Issued | Parcel ID | ID kind | Job value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RALT26-03523 | Aug 28, 2026 | 02046015 | Parcel number | $19,000 |
| RADD26-02530 | Aug 5, 2026 | 06002042 | Parcel number | $9,900 |
| RALT26-02739 | Aug 3, 2026 | 18085081 | Parcel number | $32,000 |
| RADD26-03221 | Jul 31, 2026 | 01050011 | Parcel number | $8,500 |
| RADD26-02201 | Jul 30, 2026 | 38001204 | Parcel number | $5,995 |
| RADD26-02722 | Jul 24, 2026 | 13006056 | Parcel number | $8,831 |
| RALT26-03348 | Jul 24, 2026 | 01047030 | Parcel number | $7,000 |
| RADD26-03311 | Jul 22, 2026 | 03073026 | Parcel number | $32,713 |
Sources
Collected from 2 datasets published by Arlington County.
- RealEstate.Permit legacy extract (pipe-delimited TXT, parcel-keyed)Published data file · historical archive78,361 rows
- Form Based Code ProjectsArcGIS feature layer25 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.