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Residential Building Permits Issued and Final since 1990

Metadata Updated: January 18, 2026

Permit records from the City of Seattle permitting system for building permits that create or demolish housing units. Records begin in 1990 and are through the current year quarter.

The permits in this layer are those that have either been completed or are currently issued. This data does not contain records for those permits that were issued but were not completed so are therefore not comparable to statistics that report permit issuance.

Each record represents the number of units added or demolished for each housing type in the project. Therefore a single building permit may appear multiple times if there are a mix of unit types in the project.

Housing unit types reflect the unit types regulated by the building codes and change through time. There has been no attempt to standardize these types and therefore reflect the unit types that existed at the time the permit was issued.

There may be multiple permits at any given address.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: See this page for license information.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date September 2, 2022
Metadata Updated Date January 18, 2026

Metadata Source

Harvested from Seattle JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date September 2, 2022
Metadata Updated Date January 18, 2026
Publisher City of Seattle ArcGIS Online
Maintainer
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Data First Published 2020-01-05
Data Last Modified 2026-01-17
Category geospatial
Public Access Level public
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://cos-data.seattle.gov/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
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Harvest Source Id f61de7a2-69cf-40a9-a1bc-dd9edb8f3fe5
Harvest Source Title Seattle JSON
Homepage URL https://data-seattlecitygis.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/SeattleCityGIS::residential-building-permits-issued-and-final-since-1990
License https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/summary
Metadata Type geospatial
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Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 8976e1136114d8dc34cd16ac0860942dcca71cf75d9d030693a1b2eac11460e4
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