Newest sealed read: 2026-08-25. This is a one-time snapshot of six published boards, not a feed we re-read for you. We hold 1 sealed run going back to 1921-09-20. Collection has paused. We last read this source 41 days ago, and we read it every day, so no number on this page moves until collection starts again.
What this page is6 rows held · newest sealed read 2026-08-25
- Six source boards, each marked ALLOW_PAID in the permission record.
- Not on sale right now. Each file is sent by hand today, and the files come back on sale when delivery is automatic.
- Person-name columns are dropped. Montgomery County's required disclaimer ships inside its file.
- San Francisco's metadata on this fetch did not include a min/max issued date or an exact row count.
- Cincinnati's issued-date column on this fetch ends on 17 Dec 2021.
- Cambridge's table is new-construction building permits only, 362 rows.
Real rows out of our sealed copies
Every number in this table was read from the city's own dataset metadata on one fetch per portal. Nothing here is a live dump of the rows.
| Board | Rows on this fetch | Columns | Issued dates | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin, Texas | 2,372,018 | 78 | 20 Sep 1921 to 23 Aug 2026 | 24 Aug 2026 |
| Cambridge, Massachusetts | 362 | 108 | 28 Sep 2018 to 14 Aug 2026 | 25 Aug 2026 |
| Cincinnati, Ohio | 127,298 | 31 | 4 Jan 2010 to 17 Dec 2021 | 24 Aug 2026 |
| Montgomery County, Maryland | 186,173 | 28 | 3 Jan 2000 to 24 Aug 2026 | 25 Aug 2026 |
| New York City | 989,378 | 46 | 23 Jun 2016 to 24 Aug 2026 | 25 Aug 2026 |
| San Francisco, California | not in this metadata fetch | 53 | not in this metadata fetch | 25 Aug 2026 |
What this page cannot tell you
- The portals stay free. A competitor can download the same tables.
- We do not send a new copy next month.
- Marin County, Scottsdale and Seattle are not in this family.
- A fixture sample is not the city's full board.
- New York City here is DOB NOW Build approved permits, not the older legacy file.
See the file we hold
You do not have to take our word for what is in the file. Here are 25 rows of the real thing, carrying all 7 of its columns, cut out of the dated copies we sealed ourselves. Nothing in it is made up and nothing in it is tidied up.
- Open the 25 rows as a CSVA plain spreadsheet file. It saves to your machine rather than painting itself into a browser tab, and it opens in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets.
- The same 25 rows as JSONThe same rows again, laid out for reading with code.
Nothing on this page is for sale. The sample file is free to read, and so is every row on the page above it.
These 25 rows are a slice of the file, not the whole of it. What we cannot show you here is how far back it goes: the file goes back further than these rows do.
Not on sale right now
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