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Arizona building permits by city

Permits from the city portals we cover across Arizona — most refreshed daily — fused with contractor, owner, and sales data. Pick a city or search any address or contractor.

Coverage

What we cover — and where each source is honest about its gaps

1M+ Arizona building permits across 23 jurisdictions — 20 cities plus 3 counties — most refreshed daily, and fused with the AZ ROC roster and county parcel data. A few feeds omit a field upstream; we show exactly which, rather than papering over it.

JurisdictionPermits · 90dRefreshNotes
Phoenix9,773dailyContractor + owner linked
Mesa1,482dailyContractor + owner linked
Scottsdale239dailyContractor + owner linked
Tempe700dailyContractor named on few permits
Gilbert1,367dailyEnerGov feed — contractor + parcel; replaced the thin Hub CSV
Peoria859dailyContractor + owner linked
Buckeye1,859dailyContractor + owner linked
Avondale366monthlyMonthly report — new permits appear ~30 days after month-end
ChandlerdailyLive Accela feed — all permit types, applied dates; contractor on ~45% via Accela CapDetail enrichment; no reported valuation or issue date in the public portal
GoodyeardailyContractor names via Accela detail; applied dates only (no issue dates)
Queen CreekdailyNo contractor names or issue dates
Maricopa County (unincorporated)1,351weeklyParcel + owner records
Tucson2,810dailyContractor + owner linked
Yuma1,354dailyContractor + owner linked
Pima County (unincorporated)dailyUnincorporated county — contractor + owner via Accela detail; no valuations or issue dates
SahuaritadailyContractor names via Accela detail; no valuations or issue dates
NogalesdailyContractor + owner via Accela detail; no valuations or issue dates
City of Maricopa739dailySmartGov feed — no declared valuations
El Mirage241dailySmartGov feed — portal rarely names contractors; no declared valuations
Oro Valley34dailySmartGov feed — portal rarely names contractors; no declared valuations
Kingman510dailySmartGov feed — portal rarely names contractors; no declared valuations
Florence361dailySmartGov feed — no declared valuations
Pinal County1,251monthlyMonthly report — new permits appear ~3 weeks after month-end

Gaps are upstream — the city publishes the feed that way. Glendale and Surprise are on the roadmap as their records become available.

25,523 · $6.38B

building permits issued across Arizona in the last 90 days, worth that much in declared construction value — aggregated daily across every jurisdiction we cover.

Maricopa County building permits

Most permits in Maricopa County are issued by the incorporated cities — Phoenix, Mesa, Scottsdale, Tempe, Gilbert, Peoria, and the rest of the Valley each run their own permitting. Maricopa County issues permits for the unincorporated areas between and beyond those city limits. We pull the major city portals daily and unify them so you can search building-permit activity across jurisdictions in one place, rather than checking each portal separately.

What's in a building permit record

  • Address — where the work is happening, matched to the parcel.
  • Work class & type — what's being built (new home, reroof, service upgrade…).
  • Declared valuation — the job's reported construction value.
  • Contractor — resolved to the AZ ROC license where available.
  • Owner — the property owner from county parcel data.
  • Lifecycle stage — applied → issued → in progress → finaled.

Arizona building permits — FAQ

How do I search building permits in Phoenix and Maricopa County?+

Pick a city below or type any address or contractor name into the search box. You’ll see the permit, its status and declared valuation, the contractor who pulled it, and the property owner — across the 20 Arizona cities we cover (most pulled daily), from Phoenix and Mesa to Tucson and Yuma, plus unincorporated county feeds.

Are these Maricopa County permits or city permits?+

Both. In Arizona, each incorporated city issues building permits within its limits, while counties issue permits for unincorporated areas. We pull the major city portals across Arizona — most daily, county reports as published — and unify them so you can search across jurisdictions in one place.

How often is the permit data updated?+

Most sources daily — we pull every daily portal each day; a few county feeds publish weekly or monthly reports, ingested as released (the coverage table below shows each source’s cadence). Every permit is classified by lifecycle stage — applied, issued, in progress, and finaled.

How far back does the permit history go?+

Anonymous users see the last 90 days of activity per address for free. A Plumb Intelligence account unlocks the full permit history.

Is permit data public in Arizona?+

Yes — building permits are public records. We aggregate them from official jurisdiction feeds and fuse them with the AZ ROC contractor roster and Maricopa County Assessor parcel data so they’re searchable and useful in one place.

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