Cities

Each city publishes its own permit records. We read them directly.

17 jurisdictions across 10 states, 226,885 permits in all. New York contributes the most of them; Chicago covers the widest set of work, at 16 project types.

Coverage follows whichever jurisdictions publish permit valuations in a machine-readable form, not population. That is why a small county can appear here and a large city cannot: the missing ones are missing because their filings are not published as open data, or because they publish a computed valuation rather than the figure the applicant declared, which is a different number and not comparable to these.