Building permit data
AvailableSalem city, Virginia building permits
10,291 permits from Salem city’s building department since 1990 — type, status, job value, contractor, dates and parcel id. Full history for $250.
- Permits
- 10,291
- Permit history
- 1990–2019
- Past 12 months
- 0
- Last collected
- Oct 19, 2026
Permits by year
By issue date (application date where no issue date), 2017–2026.
01K2K
1.7K
201720192021202320252026*
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| Year | Permits |
|---|---|
| 2017 | 22 |
| 2018 | 215 |
| 2019 | 1,745 |
| 2020 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 |
| 2026 (YTD) | 0 |
Most common permit types
As the department classifies them.
- Z-ZONING1.5K
- ELECTRICAL1.4K
- MECHANICAL1K
- UTILITY INSPECT718
- B-RES596
- PLUMBING555
Field coverage
Share of records with each column populated.
- Permit numberpermit_number100%
- Permit typepermit_type100%
- Work descriptionwork_description0%
- Statuspermit_status100%
- Application dateapplication_date5%
- Issue dateissue_date0%
- Completion datecomplete_date0%
- Expiration dateexpiration_date0%
- Site addressaddress0%
- Parcel identifierparcel_id94%
- Job valuevaluation5%
- Contractorcontractor100%
Parcel identifier kinds
- Parcel number 10.3K
- None 2K
Sample records
8 real records from the file — its fullest, newest first.
| Permit # | Type | Status | Applied | ID kind | Job value | Contractor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-00004354 | MECHANICAL | PERMIT ISSUED | Dec 31, 2019 | None | $6,000 | CONTROL MAINTENANCE INC |
| 2019-00000378 | WATERPROOF RESIDENTIAL | PERMIT ISSUED | Dec 31, 2019 | None | $4,510 | SEAL-TITE BASEMENT WATERPROOFING CO |
| 2019-00002311 | ELECTRICAL | PERMIT ISSUED | Dec 30, 2019 | None | $6,500 | CATOE'S ELECTRICAL CO |
| 2019-00006223 | PLUMBING | PERMIT ISSUED | Dec 30, 2019 | None | $6,000 | STAUFFER PLUMBING |
| 2019-00006222 | PLUMBING | PERMIT ISSUED | Dec 30, 2019 | None | $1,500 | PLUMBING AND MORE WITH JB LLC |
| 2019-00000377 | BUILDING COMMERCIAL | PERMIT ISSUED | Dec 30, 2019 | None | $5,400 | BLANKENSHIP ROOFING CO INC |
| 2019-00006220 | WATER AND SEWER CONNECTION | PERMIT COMPLETE | Dec 26, 2019 | None | $3,794 | WISLER PLUMBING INC |
| 2019-00004351 | MECHANICAL | PERMIT ISSUED | Dec 23, 2019 | None | $406 | GREER'S SUPPLY COMPANY INC |
Sources
Collected from 3 datasets published by Salem city.
- PermitEventTable (Cityworks permit-event extract, table)ArcGIS feature layer · historical archive34,153 rows
- Completed_Permits_Data_2019ArcGIS feature layer1,040 rows
- Issued_Permits_Data_2019ArcGIS feature layer942 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.