Permit data

South Carolina building permit data

Markets on record

Permits on record

17,548

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.

Beaufort County, SC

Available

5,253

permits on record, through 2026-08-07

Weekly feed available when this market clears our completeness bar.

Plus addresses on 99.9%, contractor names on 90.7%, declared values on 30.8%, ZIPs on 91.9%, measured across every row we hold.

Names are on 49% for the contractor and 48% for the owner of recent rows. Declared value is on 49% of recent rows.

Full history $89.99 once

History runs to 2026-08-07 and stops there, so that is what the file holds.

Hilton Head Island, SC

Available

4,785

permits on record, through 2026-08-08

Plus addresses on 100.0%, contractor names on 82.6%, declared values on 81.7%, ZIPs on 100.0%, measured across every row we hold.

Weekly feed $29.99 a month

Full history $89.99 once

History runs to 2026-08-08 and stops there, so that is what the file holds.

Georgetown County, SC

Available

2,882

permits on record, through 2026-08-07

Plus addresses on 99.9%, contractor names on 95.6%, declared values on 96.1%, ZIPs on 99.8%, measured across every row we hold.

Weekly feed $14.99 a month

Full history $49.99 once

History runs to 2026-08-07 and stops there, so that is what the file holds.

Columbia, SC

Available

1,730

permits on record, through 2026-08-07

Weekly feed available when this market clears our completeness bar.

Plus addresses on 100.0%, contractor names on 65.5%, declared values on 12.2%, ZIPs on 100.0%, measured across every row we hold.

Names are on 53% for the contractor and 0% for the owner of recent rows. Declared value is on 12% of recent rows.

Full history $49.99 once

History runs to 2026-08-07 and stops there, so that is what the file holds.

Darlington County, SC

Available

1,053

permits on record, through 2026-08-09

Weekly feed available when this market clears our completeness bar.

Plus addresses on 99.9%, contractor names on 67.5%, declared values on 17.8%, ZIPs on 97.6%, measured across every row we hold.

Names are on 53% for the contractor and 62% for the owner of recent rows. Declared value is on 26% of recent rows.

Full history $49.99 once

History runs to 2026-08-09 and stops there, so that is what the file holds.

Follybeach, SC

Sample only

527

permits on record, through 2026-08-07

Why is this sample only?

Greenville, SC

Sample only

502

permits on record, 28 last week

Why is this sample only?

Clemson, SC

Sample only

354

permits on record, through 2026-08-07

Why is this sample only?

Florence, SC

Sample only

235

permits on record, through 2026-08-07

Why is this sample only?

Beaufort, SC

Sample only

214

permits on record, through 2026-08-07

Why is this sample only?

Charleston, SC

Sample only

permits on record, through 2026-04-14

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 11 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
Beaufort County, SC Completeness Address 99.9% all timeContractor 90.7% all timeDeclared value 30.8% all timeZIP 91.9% all timeData since 2025-02	5,253	through 2026-08-07	Available
Hilton Head Island, SC Completeness Address 100.0% all timeContractor 82.6% all timeDeclared value 81.7% all timeZIP 100.0% all timeData since 2025-07	4,785	through 2026-08-08	Available
Georgetown County, SC Completeness Address 99.9% all timeContractor 95.6% all timeDeclared value 96.1% all timeZIP 99.8% all timeData since 2024-12	2,882	through 2026-08-07	Available
Columbia, SC Completeness Address 100.0% all timeContractor 65.5% all timeDeclared value 12.2% all timeZIP 100.0% all timeData since 2026-02	1,730	through 2026-08-07	Available
Darlington County, SC Completeness Address 99.9% all timeContractor 67.5% all timeDeclared value 17.8% all timeZIP 97.6% all timeData since 2026-01	1,053	through 2026-08-09	Available
Follybeach, SC Completeness Address 100.0% all timeContractor 96.6% all timeDeclared value 26.4% all timeZIP 100.0% all timeData since 2026-01 This market runs 79 permits in a recent period, below the 120 we require before selling a feed.	527	through 2026-08-07	Sample only
Greenville, SC Completeness Address 100.0% all timeContractor 97.6% all timeDeclared value 96.6% all timeZIP 98.6% all timeData since 2026-01 This market runs 83 permits in a recent period, below the 120 we require before selling a feed.	502	28 last week	Sample only
Clemson, SC Completeness Address 100.0% all timeContractor 82.5% all timeDeclared value 24.9% all timeZIP 100.0% all timeData since 2026-01 This market runs 58 permits in a recent period, below the 120 we require before selling a feed. Names are on 59% 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 23% of recent rows, under the 50% floor, and this market carries no published note explaining the absence.	354	through 2026-08-07	Sample only
Florence, SC Completeness Address 100.0% all timeContractor 95.3% all timeDeclared value 35.7% all timeZIP 99.6% all timeData since 2026-01 This market runs 67 permits in a recent period, below the 120 we require before selling a feed.	235	through 2026-08-07	Sample only
Beaufort, SC Completeness Address 100.0% all timeContractor 74.8% all timeDeclared value 10.7% all timeZIP 100.0% all timeData since 2026-01 This market runs 30 permits in a recent period, below the 120 we require before selling a feed. Names are on 58% for the contractor and 30% for the owner of recent rows, and a feed we sell needs one of them above 70%. Declared value is on 21% of recent rows, under the 50% floor, and this market carries no published note explaining the absence.	214	through 2026-08-07	Sample only
Charleston, SC Completeness Address 100.0% all timeContractor 0.0% all timeDeclared value 0.0% all timeZIP 7.7% all timeData since 2026-02 This market runs 4 permits in a recent period, below the 120 we require before selling a feed. This market's newest permit is 130 days behind the freshest data we hold, past the 30 day limit for a feed we sell. We have not measured name fill for this market, and a feed we sell needs a contractor or owner name on more than 70% of rows. We have not measured declared value fill for this market, and it carries no published note explaining the absence.	13	through 2026-04-14	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 South Carolina 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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