Hamilton building permits: 567 filed in the last 30 days
Hamilton filed 567 building permits in the 30 days to 2023-12-22, down 8.1% on the 617 filed in the preceding 30 days. The busiest category was Alteration with 191 permits, followed by New Construction with 92. Hamilton publishes no usable project value on its permit feed, so this page shows no median value rather than a placeholder. Across the trailing 12 months Hamilton filed 6,143 permits, and August 2023 was the busiest month at 623. The Hamilton feed does not name a contractor on its permit records, so no contractor ranking is published here.
Top permit types, last 12 months
| Alteration | 1,990 |
| New Construction | 699 |
| Deck/Porch | 638 |
| Convert Single to Multiple | 533 |
| Backwater Valve | 341 |
Most active contractors, last 12 months
| The Hamilton feed does not name contractors on its permit records. |
Monthly filings, trailing 12 months
How to look up a building permit in Hamilton
Hamilton publishes its permit records itself, on a ArcGIS FeatureServer open-data endpoint at services.arcgis.com, in the dataset "Building & Demolition Permits 2017-present". That feed is the source this page reads, so a record here can be checked against the city's own copy. Search by civic address first, then confirm the permit number and the issue date. Records the city has not yet published will not appear in either place.
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How to look up a building permit in Hamilton | All permit data
Data: 51,846 Hamilton permits, part of 3,176,874 records from 32 municipal open-data feeds, refreshed 2026-09-30. Window measured to 2023-12-22, the latest filed date Hamilton has published. Citation: "Source: Van Permit Audit (vanpermitaudit.ca)."