Local Economy

Building Permits

New privately owned homes authorized by building permits, by month or year, for the US, every state, metro area and county: homes (housing units), buildings and construction value, split into single-family, 2 units, 3 to 4 units and 5 or more units. These are permits (homes approved to be built), not sales of new homes.

The answer is {total, limit, offset, period_type, as_of, rows, about}.

get/building-permits

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.dataporium.io
  • URL: https://api.dataporium.io/building-permits
  • Auth: API key in query parameter apikey

Query parameters

area_typestring

country, state, metro or county

statestring

2-letter code or name

countystring

County name

county_fipsstring

5-digit county FIPS code

metrostring

Part of a metro area name

metro_codestring

Metro area CBSA code

area_codestring

US, state FIPS, county FIPS or CBSA code

period_typestring

month (default) or year

date_fromstring

First period: YYYY-MM or YYYY

date_tostring

Last period

latestboolean

true = newest period of each area, with comparisons

sortstring

period (default), units_total, units_single_family, units_5plus_units, value_total or area_name; with latest=true also units_change_1y_pct, ytd_units_total, ytd_change_pct, last_12m_units_total

orderstring

asc or desc

limitinteger

Rows per page, 1 to 1000 (default 100)

offsetinteger

Rows to skip, for paging

Response

Successful response (JSON).

object required

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.