Building permit data

Available

Pittsylvania County, Virginia building permits

9,669 permits from Pittsylvania County’s building department since 2014 — type, status, job value, contractor, dates and parcel id. Full history for $250, or the past 12 months for $45/mo.

Permits
9,669
Permit history
2014–2026
Past 12 months
11
Last collected
Oct 19, 2026

Permits by year

By issue date (application date where no issue date), 2014–2026.

075150
117
20142017202020232026*
* 2026 is year to date.
View as table
YearPermits
201475
2015106
201687
201772
201892
201987
2020109
202187
202238
2023108
2024117
2025108
2026 (YTD)1

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_date11%
  • Completion datecomplete_date0%
  • Expiration dateexpiration_date0%
  • Site addressaddress0%
  • Parcel identifierparcel_id100%
  • Job valuevaluation0%
  • Contractorcontractor0%

Parcel identifier kinds

  • Parcel number 9.6K
  • GIS feature id 75

Sample records

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

Permit #IssuedParcel IDID kind
S26-01-34989Jan 9, 20262436-00-2725Parcel number
S25-11-34749Nov 13, 20252319-12-3413Parcel number
S25-11-34737Nov 12, 20252455-14-3132Parcel number
S25-11-34715Nov 3, 20251563-84-0856Parcel number
S25-10-34670Oct 28, 20252428-03-7662Parcel number
S25-10-34669Oct 28, 20252402-39-2284Parcel number
S25-10-34659Oct 27, 20252530-18-8726Parcel number
S25-10-34655Oct 27, 20251563-76-4748Parcel number

Sources

Collected from one dataset published by Pittsylvania County.

  • Building Permits (layer id 10)ArcGIS feature layer · historical archive9,767 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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