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Residential Permits

U.S. residential building permits — county and MSA monthly data from 1990, Supply Pressure Index, property mix, momentum scores, per-capita rates, and national percentile ranks for 3,100+ counties and 900+ MSAs

What's in this dataset

Residential building permits for every U.S. county and MSA — with Supply Pressure Index, momentum scores, and national percentile ranks. Your AI can tell you not just how many units are being permitted, but whether that supply pipeline is in the top 10% nationally and accelerating.

Capabilities at a glance

  • POST /api/v1/analyze — Full permit + supply analysis by address — body: { address, include_history_months? }
  • GET /api/v1/counties/{fips}/monthly — Monthly permit time series for a county by FIPS code
  • GET /api/v1/msas/{cbsa}/monthly — Monthly permit time series for an MSA by CBSA code
  • GET /api/v1/counties/{fips}/supply-pressure — Quarterly Supply Pressure Index history for a county
  • GET /api/v1/msas/{cbsa}/supply-pressure — Quarterly Supply Pressure Index history for an MSA
  • GET /api/v1/rankings/permits — Top/bottom counties or MSAs ranked by permit metric
  • GET /api/v1/rankings/supply-pressure — Top/bottom counties or MSAs ranked by Supply Pressure Index
  • GET /api/v1/counties/{fips}/property-mix — Quarterly property type composition for a county
  • GET /api/v1/msas/{cbsa}/property-mix — Quarterly property type composition for an MSA
  • GET /api/v1/meta/metrics — Machine-readable description of all metrics and formulas (free)

Example queries

Residential permit activity near 701 Brickell Ave Miami
Which MSAs have the highest supply pressure for multifamily?
Permit trends for Denver County over the last 5 years

Full reference

Reference documentation coming soon.

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