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Every issued permit started as an application: a real project, at a real address, sitting in plan check while the city reviews it. Contractors who only watch issued permits see the job after the GC is picked. PermitBoards tracks the filings themselves in every market that publishes them, and follows each one until it graduates to an issued permit.
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Windows end at each feed's newest filing — a lagging feed shows its real dates, never a smoothed-over today. Stage counts are that market's own; a market is only listed here when we actually hold its application-stage rows.
| Market | In process | Just filed | In plan check | Corrections issued | Approved — waiting to issue | Filings through |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York City, NY | 11,903 | 1,369 | 3,991 | 1,108 | 5,435 | Nov 12, 2026 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 3,356 | 662 | 639 | 925 | 1,130 | Nov 8, 2026 |
| New Orleans, LA | 970 | 527 | 213 | 38 | 192 | Nov 12, 2026 |
| Fort Worth, TX | 762 | 106 | 309 | 284 | 63 | Nov 13, 2026 |
| Nashville, TN | 646 | 646 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Nov 12, 2026 |
| Maricopa County, AZ | 571 | 69 | 380 | 121 | 1 | Nov 12, 2026 |
| San Francisco, CA | 552 | 550 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Nov 12, 2026 |
| San Antonio, TX | 528 | 528 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Nov 6, 2026 |
| Cleveland, OH | 454 | 53 | 401 | 0 | 0 | Nov 12, 2026 |
| Montgomery County, MD | 411 | 411 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Oct 28, 2026 |
| Cincinnati, OH | 381 | 159 | 161 | 0 | 61 | Nov 10, 2026 |
| Raleigh, NC | 358 | 142 | 156 | 0 | 60 | Nov 11, 2026 |
| Seattle, WA | 354 | 0 | 272 | 71 | 11 | Nov 11, 2026 |
| Mesa, AZ | 254 | 47 | 154 | 49 | 4 | Nov 11, 2026 |
| Detroit, MI (plan-review filings) | 159 | 0 | 157 | 0 | 2 | Nov 12, 2026 |
| Washington, DC | 44 | 0 | 15 | 27 | 2 | Nov 13, 2026 |
| Virginia Beach, VA | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | Oct 22, 2026 |
| Norfolk, VA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Jan 27, 2027 |
Montgomery County publishes in batches — its newest filing batch is dated Oct 28, 2026, about 16 days behind. The lag is the county's, and its market page prints it too.
Detroit's lane is plan-review filings: permits the city has taken into plan review before issuance. The layer publishes no permit type or job value, so neither is shown for those rows.
Virginia Beach moves most permits to issuance the same day they are filed, so its in-process count is genuinely small — the number is the real one, not a gap in the feed.
New Orleans' application register does not reconcile permit-for-permit with its issued register, so its filings are tracked as their own lane rather than merged on a number that only matches about seven times in ten.
Applications & filings are not an add-on. Every PermitBoards plan — the free 14-day sample feed, the $79/month plan, and the founding cohort's $49/month for life — includes the application-stage filings for its county wherever the city publishes them, in the same daily email and the same CSV, in their own clearly labeled section. One-off county reports stay issued-permit reports; the filings are the subscribers' edge.
These markets are tracked on issued permits. Their cities publish no application-stage feed we can wire honestly (no filing date, no stage separation, or no feed at all), so we label them issued-only instead of faking an early signal:
An application is a project filed with the city before the permit issues — it sits in plan check for days to weeks. The address, the scope of work, and the value are already public. An issued permit usually means the GC is picked and the subs are being lined up; an application is the same project while there is still time to get in front of it.
No. Applications & filings are included in every PermitBoards plan at the same price — $79 a month per county + trade, $49 locked for the founding cohort — and in the free 14-day sample feed. There is no applications add-on and no separate applications plan.
Those cities either publish no application-stage data, publish it without a filing date (so no honest 30-day window exists), or publish it in a register that cannot be separated from issued permits without guessing. We would rather label a market issued-only than dress issued data up as early signal.
Just filed: received, not yet in review. In plan check: with the city's reviewers. Corrections issued: sent back to the applicant with corrections or questions — the project is alive and the applicant is spending money on it. Approved — waiting to issue: cleared review, permit not yet printed. Every filing is tracked until it graduates to an issued permit in the same feed.
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