Victoria building permits: 323 filed in the last 30 days
Victoria filed 323 building permits in the 30 days to 2026-09-28, down 6.4% on the 345 filed in the preceding 30 days. The busiest category was Electrical Permit (EP) with 249 permits, followed by Plumbing Permit (PP) with 50. Median declared project value was $2,500. Across the trailing 12 months Victoria filed 4,159 permits, and January 2026 was the busiest month at 403. OCEANVIEW MECHANICAL LTD. is named on more Victoria permits than any other contractor over that year, 17 of them.
Top permit types, last 12 months
| Electrical Permit (EP) | 2,971 |
| Plumbing Permit (PP) | 597 |
| Building Permit (BP) | 528 |
| Sign Permit (SP) | 63 |
Most active contractors, last 12 months
| OCEANVIEW MECHANICAL LTD. | 17 |
| PINNACLE FIRE PROTECTION LTD. | 13 |
| CANTEC FIRE ALARMS | 6 |
| VICTORIA DRAIN SERVICES LTD. | 6 |
| DANSON MECHANICAL | 5 |
Monthly filings, trailing 12 months
How to look up a building permit in Victoria
Victoria publishes its permit records itself, on a ArcGIS FeatureServer open-data endpoint at maps.victoria.ca, in the dataset "Permits & Licences (live + historical layers)". 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 Victoria | All permit data
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)."