The Cities Builtie Covers, and How Many Projects Since 2024

On September 4, 2026, Builtie tracked ten metros across the United States and Canada, together holding 1,024,996 building permits issued since January 2024. This page gives those numbers city by city rather than averaging them into one coverage claim. Los Angeles and smaller markets in Ontario, Alberta, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri have been added since; the current list is on the coverage page, and Toronto and the GTA carries the deepest data.

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Every city, with its numbers

Counted on September 4, 2026. Toronto and Hamilton are counted from Builtie's own records; the other eight are counted directly against each city's official open-data service on the permit issue date, except New York, which is counted on filing date because its issued-permit dataset has published nothing since 2025.

Added October 7, 2026: Los Angeles, CA. 177,551 permits issued since January 2024 (64,776 in 2024, 63,355 in 2025 and 49,420 in 2026 to October 9, counted against the city's open data). The open dataset names no one; Builtie reads each permit's LADBS record for the contractor and their CSLB license, the architect and the engineer. It is not in the totals above, which were counted on September 4. Construction leads in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Construction Industry Report.

A page for every city

Each city has its own page with its permit volume by year, what its record carries and what a trade contractor should know about that market.

• Construction leads in New York
• Construction leads in Austin
• Construction leads in Miami-Dade
• Construction leads in Chicago
• Construction leads in Toronto
• Construction leads in Calgary
• Construction leads in Seattle
• Construction leads in Nashville
• Construction leads in Vancouver
• Construction leads in Hamilton

What Builtie carries in every one of these cities

A vendor that says it covers a hundred cities is usually counting places where it can fetch a permit record. That is not what this list is. Every city here carries the same four kinds of data, with the deepest history in Toronto and the GTA, the founding market:

• Permits with their history. Not a single snapshot, but the record over time, which is what makes a builder's filing rhythm visible rather than a one-off address.
• Projects scored against your profile. Your trade, your project types, your territory and the stage at which your package is decided, so the feed is jobs you could actually win.
• Build stage on the project. The field that separates an open package from one awarded months ago, and the reason timing beats price on most trades.
• The people who award the work. Traced past permit applicants, agents and numbered companies to the operating company, and to a person there by role, with email, phone and LinkedIn where each can be verified.

Toronto holds 225,161 permits in total and Hamilton 113,927, which is what a decade of ingest looks like. Since January 2024 those two carry $52.9 billion and $4.9 billion of declared and estimated construction value respectively.

Why the fill rate is on this page

A permit without a name on it is an address. Each city publishes a different field for the company doing the work, and each fills it in to a different degree, so the fill rate is the single most useful number for judging whether a feed will produce someone to contact.

• New York, Miami-Dade, Chicago and Nashville publish a name on effectively every record.
• Austin and Seattle sit in the eighties and nineties, so a small share of records arrive with the company blank.
• Calgary at 66 percent and Vancouver at 61 percent leave a real gap on the contractor field. Vancouver publishes an applicant on every record, which is the better fallback, and that is why two numbers appear in the table.

Chicago is worth a note: its contact field carries the role alongside the name, which separates a general contractor from an electrical contractor on the same permit. That distinction decides who a trade should actually approach, so it is preserved rather than flattened to a bare name.

How the counts were produced

1. One date rule per city. Permits issued on or after January 1, 2024, using each city's own issue-date field, so a slow permit office is not penalized for a backlog of old applications.
2. Counted at the source. Each number is a count run against the city's official open-data service on September 4, 2026, not an estimate and not a projection.
3. No deduplication across cities. Every record belongs to exactly one city, so the total is a sum rather than a claim about unique projects.
4. Permits, not projects. A large build can carry several permits, and a small one carries a single permit. The count measures permit records, which is the unit the cities publish.

If your city is not on this list

Coverage expands to wherever a municipality publishes usable permit data, and the honest answer for any city not listed is that the source has not been verified yet. Tell us the city and we will check what it publishes and how well the contractor field is filled, which is the same test every city on this page had to pass. If a municipality publishes nothing usable, no vendor can serve it well, whatever their coverage map shows.

What this means for a trade contractor

Wherever you work on this list, the shape is the same: projects at the stage where your package is bought, with the buyer identified and outreach running from your own accounts. What changes city to city is the volume you will see and how completely the local record names the company doing the work, which is why both numbers are published above rather than averaged away.

Builtie plans start at $79 per month per seat for 20 projects a month, and $99 for 50. Growth adds LinkedIn and email outreach you run from the platform; Starter does not include Outreach. Done-for-you — where Builtie's team runs the content, campaigns and replies for you — is the Custom plan. There is a 7-day free trial with 10 projects.

Which plan fits you?

Starter, $79 per seat per month (CAD). 20 matched projects a month, which is $3.95 for a fully worked project — the decision maker, their verified email, phone and LinkedIn, the site context and the opening script all included in the one credit. Credits reset each month, and you can top up with a credit pack any time. Sourcing that by hand runs about twenty minutes a project, so the plan buys back roughly seven hours a month. Pick it if you already have someone sending the messages and what you are short of is a qualified list. It does not include Outreach.

Growth, $99 per seat per month (CAD). Twenty dollars more buys two and a half times the projects — 50 a month, $1.98 each — plus the entire outreach layer: LinkedIn and email sequences, campaigns, the unified inbox, events and social signals. Anyone opening more than 20 projects a month is better off here on volume alone, before counting the ten to fifteen hours a week that automated follow-up gives back. Pick it if someone on your team will log in and run it.

Done-For-You, the Custom plan, from CAD $1,500 a month. Pick it when the honest answer to “who is going to run this?” is nobody. Builtie's team writes the content, runs your LinkedIn, Instagram and email, answers the comments and DMs, builds and manages the campaigns, A/B tests the messaging, analyzes your followers and your competitors, and hands you the conversations. It sits on top of a Growth seat and is quoted against your trade, territory and channels. See everything Done-For-You covers, or compare all three on the pricing page.

See also: Construction market intelligence reports.

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