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Original data studySnapshot 2026-06-09

What 5,004 real building permits reveal about contractor activity

Permit pulls are proof of work — a contractor who files inspected, public building permits is doing real jobs. We matched a sample of public permit records to listed pros and broke it down.

Data as of

The headline numbers

5,004
Real permits matched
554
Contractors with permits
18
Public permit sources
$38,000
Median listed job value

Where the permits were pulled

Top jurisdictions in the matched sample (real public permit records).

  • Travis County945
  • Miami-Dade County609
  • Franklin County515
  • New York City County512
  • DeKalb County366
  • Phoenix County343
  • Bexar County334
  • Sacramento County218
  • Cook County170
  • Denver County166

By trade category

Permit types are classified by keyword; "Other / Unclassified" covers the long tail of jurisdiction-specific permit labels that don't map cleanly to a single trade.

  • Other / Unclassified
    2,371 (47%)
  • Electrical
    1,089 (22%)
  • Building / Addition / Alteration
    812 (16%)
  • Plumbing
    391 (8%)
  • HVAC / Mechanical
    191 (4%)
  • Roofing
    142 (3%)
  • Demolition
    8 (0%)

Methodology + honest caveats

  • Matched sample, not a census. These are public permit records we confidently matched (≥0.92 match confidence) to 554 contractors listed on ProFix Directory — capped per pro. It is not every permit every contractor has ever pulled, and not every contractor appears.
  • Real, public sources only. Pulled from 18 government permit portals (e.g. county and city open-data sites). Each record links to its source.
  • Computed live. Every figure on this page is aggregated at build time from the snapshot dated 2026-06-09, so it can't drift from the underlying data.
  • Years covered: 2025 (2,526), 2026 (2,478).

Browse the underlying machine-readable data at /api/permits.json or see per-county permit leaderboards from the permit leaderboard.

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