Explore Seattle building permit activity using the city's official open data. Compare complete months, inspect the source and take the numbers with you.
193,807Records in the city dataset, across all statuses
Oct 20, 2026Latest issue date in the source
Oct 21, 2026City dataset updated
ISSUED BUILDING PERMITS
Explore the last complete months.
6,357 permits issued in the selected period
Monthly issued building permits · All classifications
Month
Issued permits
Relative volume
Oct 2025
533
Nov 2025
377
Dec 2025
527
Jan 2026
476
Feb 2026
409
Mar 2026
651
Apr 2026
637
May 2026
524
Jun 2026
589
Jul 2026
566
Aug 2026
561
Sep 2026
507
CSV contains the selected months split by classification. Zero rows for a classification mean no matching issued records in this snapshot.
DEFINITIONS
What these numbers measure.
Monthly counts use the permit issue date and the city’s residential classification. Each record counts once; permits are not buildings or dwelling units. The current partial month is excluded. Later revisions can change historical totals.
The all-status record count includes applications and expired, canceled or completed records. It is not a count of active permits. These statistics do not determine whether your project requires a permit or predict its review time.
PROVENANCE
A traceable daily snapshot.
Retrieved Oct 22, 2026. Our daily job reads aggregate counts only; addresses, applicant details and contractor names are excluded. A failed refresh preserves the previous snapshot.
Dataset: Seattle Building Permits · 76t5-zqzr. Publisher: City of Seattle. The provider labels this dataset PUBLIC_DOMAIN.