Van Permit Audit

Canadian Building Permit Dataset

Free to download and reuse. 2,313,706 building permits worth $594.7B of declared construction value across 32 Canadian cities, issue dates 2018 to present. Refreshed from official municipal open-data sources.

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Building permits by cityCSVPermit cost (project value) by typeCSVPermit issue times by cityCSVTop building contractorsCSV

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Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Free to use, including commercially, with attribution.

Cite as: “Source: Van Permit Audit (vanpermitaudit.ca).”

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Source: Van Permit Audit national permit dataset, aggregated from official municipal open-data sources, issue dates 2018 to present. Citation: “Source: Van Permit Audit (vanpermitaudit.ca).”