How to look up a building permit in Airdrie
Airdrie has 53,722 permit records in this dataset, the most recent filed 2026-09-28. Over the last 12 months the city filed 3,783 permits, most of them Residential. Here is how to check one address, and what this dataset already shows.
Step by step
- Start with the civic address exactly as the city writes it, street number, street name, unit. Municipal feeds match on the address string, so "123 Main St" and "123 Main Street" can return different rows.
- Open Airdrie's own permit data at map.airdrie.ca and find the dataset "Building Permits". This is the same source this page reads.
- Filter by permit type. In Airdrie the common categories are Residential, Commercial/Industrial, Institutional and Public Use.
- Check the status and the issue date, not just the filing. A filed permit is not an issued permit, and an issued permit is not a finalized one. A permit still open on the record is the one that stalls a sale.
- If nothing comes back, the work may predate the city's published range, or it may have been done without a permit. Both look identical in an open-data search, which is why a written report matters at a closing.
What this dataset shows for Airdrie
53,722
Records held
Airdrie, AB
3,783
Filed, last 12 months
2025-09-29 to 2026-09-28
2026-09-28
Latest filed date
The newest record the city has published
2026-09-30
Data refreshed
Last warehouse rebuild
Questions people ask
- Where are Airdrie building permits published?
- Airdrie publishes its permit records on its own open-data endpoint at map.airdrie.ca, in the dataset "Building Permits". Van Permit Audit reads that feed and holds 53,722 Airdrie records, current to 2026-09-28.
- How many permits does Airdrie issue?
- Airdrie filed 3,783 permits in the 12 months to 2026-09-28, and 325 in the most recent 30 day window. The most common category was Residential, 3,498 permits over the year.
- How current is Airdrie permit data?
- The latest Airdrie permit filed date in this dataset is 2026-09-28, and the dataset was refreshed on 2026-09-30. Municipal feeds publish on their own cycle, so a permit filed in the last few days may not appear in either the city's feed or here yet.
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Data: 53,722 Airdrie permits, part of 3,176,874 records from 32 municipal open-data feeds, refreshed 2026-09-30. Window measured to 2026-09-28, the latest filed date Airdrie has published. Citation: "Source: Van Permit Audit (vanpermitaudit.ca)."