How to look up a building permit in Vaughan
Vaughan has 17,185 permit records in this dataset, the most recent filed 2026-09-22. Over the last 12 months the city filed 2,000 permits, most of them Alteration and improvements. 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 Vaughan's own permit data at services2.arcgis.com and find the dataset "Permits (active, last 3 years)". This is the same source this page reads.
- Filter by permit type. In Vaughan the common categories are Alteration and improvements, New Construction, Issued.
- 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 Vaughan
17,185
Records held
Vaughan, ON
2,000
Filed, last 12 months
2025-09-23 to 2026-09-22
2026-09-22
Latest filed date
The newest record the city has published
2026-09-30
Data refreshed
Last warehouse rebuild
Questions people ask
- Where are Vaughan building permits published?
- Vaughan publishes its permit records on its own open-data endpoint at services2.arcgis.com, in the dataset "Permits (active, last 3 years)". Van Permit Audit reads that feed and holds 17,185 Vaughan records, current to 2026-09-22.
- How many permits does Vaughan issue?
- Vaughan filed 2,000 permits in the 12 months to 2026-09-22, and 28 in the most recent 30 day window. The most common category was Alteration and improvements, 1,096 permits over the year.
- How current is Vaughan permit data?
- The latest Vaughan permit filed date in this dataset is 2026-09-22, 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: 17,185 Vaughan permits, part of 3,176,874 records from 32 municipal open-data feeds, refreshed 2026-09-30. Window measured to 2026-09-22, the latest filed date Vaughan has published. Citation: "Source: Van Permit Audit (vanpermitaudit.ca)."