Newest sealed read: 2026-08-26. This is a one-time assembled file. We pulled these rows on 26 Aug 2026. We hold 1 sealed run going back to 2023-01-01.
What this page is172,942 rows held · newest sealed read 2026-08-26
- We hold 172,942 published rows pulled on 26 Aug 2026.
- Issue dates in this extract run from 1 Jan 2023 to 17 Aug 2026.
- 5 distinct PERMIT_TYPE_NAME values are in this extract.
- Years pulled: 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026. Years not pulled: 2022 (layer 14) and earlier.
- Person-name columns are not in any file we make from this extract.
Real rows out of our sealed copies
This is the inventory of the extract, not a list of every permit the District has ever issued. Layer 14 (Building Permits - 2022) and earlier layers on the same FeatureServer were not pulled.
| Calendar year | Rows in this extract |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 30,634 |
| 2025 | 50,087 |
| 2024 | 47,161 |
| 2023 | 45,060 |
| District's permit type | Rows in this extract |
|---|---|
| SUPPLEMENTAL | 91,251 |
| CONSTRUCTION | 55,395 |
| POST CARD | 18,677 |
| HOME OCCUPATION | 5,944 |
| SHOP DRAWING | 1,675 |
Who published the data on this page
- Data retrieved from Open Data DC catalog (https://opendata.dc.gov)
- Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
- Person columns stripped (PERMIT_APPLICANT, OWNER_NAME, CREATED_USER, LAST_EDITED_USER). DESC_OF_WORK removed. Rows assembled into dated slices by USTechAutomations.
- The underlying District data itself stays CC BY 4.0. The District's free portal remains at opendata.dc.gov.
What this page cannot tell you
- This is 172,942 published rows we pulled on 26 Aug 2026, not the city's all-time file. A row we did not pull is not in the file.
- Person-name and contact columns are stripped from every file we make. The portal still has them. We will not put them in a paid file.
- A blank cell means the city left it blank. We do not fill it in.
- Every address on this page is cut back to the street: we print 957 Fell St, never the flat or unit number the city prints after it. A suite or a PMB stays, because an office is not a home. Nothing has been removed from the city's file or from our copy of it -- this is a rule about what we republish, not about what we hold.
- Layer 14 (Building Permits - 2022) and earlier layers on the same FeatureServer were not pulled. A year we did not pull is not in the 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 38 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
Not on sale right now. Each file is currently sent by hand, so we have taken the pay button down. It comes back on sale when delivery is automatic.
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