Permit data

Minnesota building permit data

Markets on record

Permits on record

100,093

Available

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Weekly feed. Every permit in the market, every week. The first delivery carries the last 13 weeks, then it arrives every Sunday.

Full history. Everything we hold for the market in one file, bought once.

Files include every trade and work type. Filter to yours in one click.

Every file carries the same 9 columns on every row: the market, the permit number, the issue date, the work type and trade, the source feed's own class, and where the row came from.

Saint Paul, MN

Available

83,086

permits on record, through 2024-12-30

Weekly feed available when this market clears our completeness bar.

Plus addresses on 100.0%, contractor names on 0.0%, declared values on 100.0%, ZIPs on 95.3%, measured across every row we hold.

We hold no computed period for this market yet, so its volume is unknown. We cannot tell how current this market is, so it is not offered for sale. We have not measured name fill for this market. We have not measured declared value fill for this market, and it carries no published note explaining the absence. We do not yet hold a prior period for this market, so there is no baseline to measure change against.

Full history $249.99 once

History runs to 2024-12-30 and stops there, so that is what the file holds.

Minneapolis, MN

Available

14,394

permits on record, 0 last week

Weekly feed available when this market clears our completeness bar.

Plus addresses on 100.0%, contractor names on 0.0%, declared values on 31.2%, ZIPs on 10.8%, measured across every row we hold.

Declared value is on 28% of recent rows.

Full history $89.99 once

Faribault, MN

Available

1,630

permits on record, 0 last week

Plus addresses on 99.8%, contractor names on 83.2%, declared values on 99.3%, ZIPs on 99.5%, measured across every row we hold.

Weekly feed $14.99 a month

Full history $49.99 once

White Bear Lake, MN

Available

891

permits on record, 28 last week

Full history available once this market reaches 1,000 permits on record.

Plus addresses on 100.0%, contractor names on 91.4%, declared values on 0.0%, ZIPs on 99.8%, measured across every row we hold.

Weekly feed $14.99 a month

Le Sueur County, MN

Sample only

permits on record, through 2026-08-07

Why is this sample only?

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Pick the markets you want to see, and we will email you real rows from them. Markets below our completeness bar can still be sampled; they are marked so you know before you look.

Every number here is computed from what we hold. See exactly what we cover.

Markets and completeness

2 of 5 markets here can be bought as a feed. The rest are sample only, and what each one is short of is on its row below.

Every figure is computed from what we actually hold. A market with no permits on record is not listed.

Market	Permits	Recent	Availability
Saint Paul, MN Completeness Address 100.0% all timeContractor not published by this feedDeclared value 100.0% all timeZIP 95.3% all timeData since 2015-06	83,086	through 2024-12-30	Available
Minneapolis, MN Completeness Address 100.0% all timeContractor not published by this feedDeclared value 31.2% all timeZIP not published by this feedData since 2026-01	14,394	0 last week	Available
Faribault, MN Completeness Address 99.8% all timeContractor 83.2% all timeDeclared value 99.3% all timeZIP 99.5% all timeData since 2026-02	1,630	0 last week	Available
White Bear Lake, MN Completeness Address 100.0% all timeContractor 91.4% all timeDeclared value 0.0% all timeZIP 99.8% all timeData since 2026-04	891	28 last week	Available
Le Sueur County, MN Completeness Address 98.9% all timeContractor 12.0% all timeDeclared value 0.0% all timeZIP 98.9% all timeData since 2026-02 This market runs 16 permits in a recent period, below the 120 we require before selling a feed. Names are on 5% for the contractor and 0% for the owner of recent rows, and a feed we sell needs one of them above 70%. Declared value is on 0% of recent rows, under the 50% floor, and this market carries no published note explaining the absence.	92	through 2026-08-07	Sample only

Reference

What a feed includes, the exact columns, where the rows come from, and what we will not claim. Open what you need.

What a feed includes

A feed is the underlying permit records for the markets you name, delivered on a schedule you set, as one row per permit with the columns listed below. It is the same data behind every number on this page, without the product wrapped around it: you get the file and use it inside the terms you agree to. For Minnesota that means every market listed above, or any subset of them, with the completeness shown per market rather than promised in general.

What every file includes, 18 columns

Column	Type	What it holds
city_slug	text	Our stable identifier for the jurisdiction that issued the permit.
city_name	text	Display name of that jurisdiction.
permit_number	text	The issuing authority's own permit identifier, verbatim.
issue_date	date	Date the permit was issued, as published by the source.
address	text	Site address of the work, as published.
zip	text	Site ZIP. Published by the feed where available, otherwise derived from the address by the Census geocoder. zip_source records which.
latitude	text	Census geocoder latitude, present only for confident address matches.
longitude	text	Census geocoder longitude, present only for confident address matches.
permit_type	text	Work type axis: RENOVATION, REMODEL, ADDITION or REPAIR. Null when the row is a specialty trade instead.
trade	text	Trade axis: ROOFING, ELECTRICAL, HVAC, PLUMBING, SOLAR or POOL. Null when the row is a work type instead.
source_class	text	The source feed's own work class, verbatim and upper cased. The closest thing in the row to the issuing authority's own taxonomy.
category	text	TRADE when a specialty trade was detected, RESIDENTIAL when a work type was detected. Not a building occupancy flag.
declared_cost	integer	Applicant declared job value in whole dollars. An estimate supplied at application, never an actual cost.
contractor	text	Contractor of record, as published.
contractor_license	text	Contractor licence or registration number where the source publishes one.
owner	text	Owner of record, as published. In the files you buy only, never shown on a page, in an email, or in the dashboard.
ward	text	Ward or council district where the source publishes one.
source	text	Where the row came from: straight from the city, the city's open data, or an aggregated feed.

Where these rows come from

Direct. We pull the issuing authority's own publication ourselves, on our own schedule. Fastest to reflect a change at the source, and the shape of the file is whatever that authority publishes.

City open data. The jurisdiction publishes its permits as an open dataset under terms that grant reuse, and we ingest it under those terms. Every one of these was read by a person before it was switched on, and the licence is recorded per city.

Aggregated feed. The records reach us through a permit data aggregator that has already gathered them from the issuing authority. Broadest reach and the most normalisation applied before we see it, which is why the source column tells you which rows came this way.

One row per permit, not one row per update. A permit that is amended, re-inspected or re-issued does not become a second record: rows are collapsed on the issuing authority's own permit number within a jurisdiction, and where two sources both describe the same permit we keep one and compare the rest. What that means for you is that a count of rows is a count of permits, so you can bill, forecast and prospect off it without deduplicating anything yourself.

The honest part

Building permits carry no phone numbers and no email addresses, so no honest permit feed includes them. How complete each field is varies by jurisdiction because publication varies by jurisdiction: some authorities publish contractor names and some do not, and where one does not you get an explicit note rather than an empty column you might mistake for a bad extraction. Every completeness figure on this page is computed from what we actually hold.

Why is a market sample only?

We only sell markets with complete data. Every figure on this page is computed from what we actually hold, and you see exactly what a market carries before you pay. Anything short of complete is sample only until it clears the bar.

Custom feeds and embedded use are quoted per deal. Email us and a person will answer.

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