How to look up a building permit in Victoria
Victoria has 66,900 permit records in this dataset, the most recent filed 2026-09-28. Over the last 12 months the city filed 4,159 permits, most of them Electrical Permit (EP). 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 Victoria's own permit data at maps.victoria.ca and find the dataset "Permits & Licences (live + historical layers)". This is the same source this page reads.
- Filter by permit type. In Victoria the common categories are Electrical Permit (EP), Plumbing Permit (PP), Building Permit (BP).
- 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 Victoria
66,900
Records held
Victoria, BC
4,159
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 Victoria building permits published?
- Victoria publishes its permit records on its own open-data endpoint at maps.victoria.ca, in the dataset "Permits & Licences (live + historical layers)". Van Permit Audit reads that feed and holds 66,900 Victoria records, current to 2026-09-28.
- How many permits does Victoria issue?
- Victoria filed 4,159 permits in the 12 months to 2026-09-28, and 323 in the most recent 30 day window. The most common category was Electrical Permit (EP), 2,971 permits over the year.
- How current is Victoria permit data?
- The latest Victoria 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: 66,900 Victoria 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 Victoria has published. Citation: "Source: Van Permit Audit (vanpermitaudit.ca)."