Ottawa building permits: 1,034 filed in the last 30 days
Ottawa filed 1,034 building permits in the 30 days to 2026-06-30, up 56.9% on the 659 filed in the preceding 30 days. The busiest category was Single with 518 permits, followed by Rowhouse with 128. Median declared project value was $90,000. Across the trailing 12 months Ottawa filed 3,817 permits, and June 2026 was the busiest month at 1,034. The Ottawa feed does not name a contractor on its permit records, so no contractor ranking is published here.
Top permit types, last 12 months
| Single | 1,931 |
| Rowhouse | 401 |
| Other | 358 |
| Not stated | 287 |
| Apartment | 273 |
Most active contractors, last 12 months
| The Ottawa feed does not name contractors on its permit records. |
Monthly filings, trailing 12 months
How to look up a building permit in Ottawa
Ottawa publishes its permit records itself, on a Excel snapshot open-data endpoint at arcgis.com, in the dataset "Building Permits (annual export)". 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.
Van Permit Audit holds 3,821 Ottawa permit records, current to 2026-06-30. See the full Ottawa lookup guide for the step by step.
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How to look up a building permit in Ottawa | All permit data
Data: 3,821 Ottawa permits, part of 3,176,874 records from 32 municipal open-data feeds, refreshed 2026-09-30. Window measured to 2026-06-30, the latest filed date Ottawa has published. Citation: "Source: Van Permit Audit (vanpermitaudit.ca)."