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Miami-Dade permit search and data: what the county publishes

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For a Miami-Dade permit search on one property, use the county's Building Permit Menu (by address, folio number, permit or process number); properties in the City of Miami and other cities with their own building departments are searched on that city's site. For bulk data, Miami-Dade County publishes the building permits it issues as a free ArcGIS feed, "Building Permits Issued By Miami-Dade County - 2 Previous Years to Present", last updated on 28 October 2026. Our query of permits issued 1–28 October 2026 returned 5,021 permits. Every one named the contractor, 4,082 (81%) listed a contractor phone number, and 763 (15%) mentioned a roof in the work description. The feed also carries the owner's name, an estimated value and up to ten work categories per permit.

The feed and what it contains

The feed is published by Miami-Dade County on ArcGIS. On 29 October 2026 it held 487,686 records, with issue dates from 1 January 2020 to 26 October 2026. Per its title, it covers permits issued by Miami-Dade County; permits issued by cities with their own building departments may not be in it, so check with the city.

Main fields:

  • PermitIssuedDate and ApplicationDate (on issued permits only: the feed has no pending applications)
  • PermitNumber, PermitType (BLDG, ELEC, MECH, PLUM and others) and ResidentialCommercial (R or C)
  • PropertyAddress, FolioNumber and OwnerName
  • ContractorName, ContractorNumber, ContractorPhone and the contractor's address
  • EstimatedValue (stored as text) and SquareFootage
  • Up to ten work categories (CategoryDescription1 to 10) and a free-text DetailDescriptionComments

Miami-Dade permit search: one property at a time

The county keeps permit records for properties in unincorporated Miami-Dade; their folio numbers start with 30. For a property in a city with its own building department, such as the City of Miami, search that city's records instead. The county's Building Permit Menu, checked on 3 November 2026, has 16 lookups, including:

  • By address: Process/Permit Number Cross-Reference and Open Master Permits.
  • By folio number: Open Permits by Folio.
  • By permit number: Permit History Inquiry, Permit Inspection History, Permit Project Status and Permit Outstanding Requirements.
  • By process number: Permit Application History and Permit Fees.
  • By contractor: Contractor Permit Inquiry, with C or T followed by the contractor or qualifier number.

Separately, the county's Inspection Routes and Results page takes a permit, Certificate of Use or boiler certificate number and shows whether your inspection is on today's inspector route. Routes are reordered between 7:00 and 8:15 a.m.; past results are under Permit Inspection History on the Building Permit Menu.

City of Miami: its View Permit History/Permit Search page describes a record of the building permits issued for a property, searched by process number, address or 13-digit folio number, and says it does not track permit applications. These lookups answer questions about one property. For every new permit in your ZIP codes each week, use the county feed below.

October 2026 in numbers

Our counts for permits issued 1–28 October 2026, run on 29 October 2026 against the county's feed:

MeasurePermitsFilter
All permits5,021PermitIssuedDate in the window
Residential / commercial3,032 / 1,989ResidentialCommercial = 'R' / 'C'
Contractor name filled5,021 (100%)ContractorName not empty
Contractor phone filled4,082 (81%)ContractorPhone not empty
Owner name filled5,010OwnerName not empty
Estimated value filled4,766EstimatedValue not empty or zero
Description mentions a roof763 (15%)DetailDescriptionComments LIKE '%ROOF%'
Roof mentions, residential only663same, plus ResidentialCommercial = 'R'
Roof mentions with a contractor phone738same, plus ContractorPhone not empty
Different contractors on roof-mention permits347distinct ContractorName
Swimming pool categories223CategoryDescription1 LIKE '%SWIMMING POOL%'
Solar54category or description mentions SOLAR
Demolition categories88CategoryDescription1 LIKE '%DEMOLITION%'
Commercial, estimated value $1 million or more207ResidentialCommercial = 'C', value parsed as a number

For comparison, the same feed returned 5,671 permits issued 1–28 October 2025.

Selected work categories, 1–28 October 2026

CategoryDescription1Permits
ELECTRICAL538
WINDOWS525
MUNICIPAL GENERAL BUILDING399
A/C - UNLTD301
GRAVEL, SBS, SINGLE PLY, ETC.285
PLUMBING249
BUILDING (COUNTY)230
FENCE226
ASPHALT (FIBERGLASS) SHINGLE ROOFS184
METAL, WOOD SHINGLES & SHAKES171
TILE ROOF110
SWIMMING POOLS / SWIMMING POOL95 / 93

The roof-covering categories in this list, plus the municipal roof categories (37 low-slope, 20 shingle and tile), add up to 807 permits in the first category field alone.

Free API access

The feed is Miami-Dade County's ArcGIS FeatureServer permit layer (services.arcgis.com), so it answers plain web requests with no key. On 29 October 2026 it returned a count of October's permits that mention a roof, and residential permits with the fields a lead list needs: issue date, permit number, property address, contractor name, contractor phone and the work description. Larger results come back a page at a time.

Things to watch

  • The City field reads MIAMI on 4,957 of the 5,021 October permits, so it works like a mailing city, not the municipality. Use the address or folio number.
  • EstimatedValue is text; convert it to a number before sorting.
  • A keyword like ROOF can also catch work that only mentions the roof (in Austin's October data, plumbing and solar permits turned up in the same search). Combine it with the roofing categories.
  • Owner names are personal data. If you contact owners, follow Do-Not-Call, TCPA, CAN-SPAM and state telemarketing rules. This is not legal advice.

What Permit Weekly adds for Miami-Dade

Before you pay, Permit Weekly confirms by email the typical weekly volume for your trade and ZIP codes. The list filters the feed to your trade every week, removes duplicates and, on Pro, counts permits by contractor across your ZIP codes.

Questions

Is Miami-Dade building permit data free?

Yes. The county publishes the permits it issues as a free ArcGIS feed you can view, download or query, with no key needed.

Does Miami-Dade permit data include contractor phone numbers?

Often. Of the 5,021 permits issued 1–28 October 2026, all named the contractor and 4,082 (81%) listed a contractor phone number.

Does it show the property owner?

Yes, an OwnerName field, filled on 5,010 of the 5,021 October permits. If you contact owners, follow Do-Not-Call and TCPA rules.

How many roofing permits does Miami-Dade issue?

In 1–28 October 2026, 763 permits mentioned a roof in the description, and 807 fell in roof-covering categories in the first category field. Both counts come from our own query of the county's feed.

How do I search Miami-Dade permits by address?

For unincorporated Miami-Dade (folio numbers starting with 30), use the county's Building Permit Menu: Process/Permit Number Cross-Reference and Open Master Permits take an address, and Open Permits by Folio takes the folio number. For a property inside the City of Miami, use the city's View Permit History/Permit Search.

Where are Miami-Dade inspection routes and results?

On the county's Inspection Routes and Results page: enter the permit, Certificate of Use or boiler certificate number to see whether your inspection is on today's inspector route. For results of past inspections, use Permit Inspection History on the Building Permit Menu.

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