How to look up a building permit in Prince George
Prince George has 12,617 permit records in this dataset, the most recent filed 2026-05-15. Over the last 12 months the city filed 839 permits, most of them PLUMBING PERMIT. 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 Prince George's own permit data at services2.arcgis.com and find the dataset "Building Permit Applications". This is the same source this page reads.
- Filter by permit type. In Prince George the common categories are PLUMBING PERMIT, BUILDING PERMIT- SINGLE FAMILY, BUILDING PERMIT - C, I & I.
- 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 Prince George
Questions people ask
- Where are Prince George building permits published?
- Prince George publishes its permit records on its own open-data endpoint at services2.arcgis.com, in the dataset "Building Permit Applications". Van Permit Audit reads that feed and holds 12,617 Prince George records, current to 2026-05-15.
- How many permits does Prince George issue?
- Prince George filed 839 permits in the 12 months to 2026-05-15, and 63 in the most recent 30 day window. The most common category was PLUMBING PERMIT, 311 permits over the year.
- How current is Prince George permit data?
- The latest Prince George permit filed date in this dataset is 2026-05-15, 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: 12,617 Prince George permits, part of 3,176,874 records from 32 municipal open-data feeds, refreshed 2026-09-30. Window measured to 2026-05-15, the latest filed date Prince George has published. Citation: "Source: Van Permit Audit (vanpermitaudit.ca)."