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Alabama building permits & home builders

Live single-family residential permit data and the most active licensed builders across all 67 counties in Alabama. Updated weekly from US Census Bureau Building Permits Survey + county public records.

Permits (12mo)
13,913
Statewide single-family
Counties tracked
67
All scored 0–100
Top market
Baldwin
2,553 permits
Active builders
0
Top 10 ranked below

Top counties in Alabama by permit volume

Most-active markets in the state over the last 12 months.

  1. Baldwin County2,553
  2. Madison County2,534
  3. Lee County1,538
  4. Jefferson County1,235
  5. Mobile County957
  6. Shelby County806
  7. Montgomery County418
  8. Tuscaloosa County413
  9. Limestone County376
  10. St. Clair County312

Top home builders in Alabama

Most-active licensed builders across the state in the last 12 months.

Per-permit builder attribution not yet available for Alabama. Census Bureau aggregate data is loaded.

All 67 counties in Alabama

Autauga 174 Baldwin 2,553 Barbour 11 Bibb 3 Blount 14 Bullock 0 Butler 3 Calhoun 106 Chambers 27 Cherokee 22 Chilton 88 Choctaw 0 Clarke 9 Clay 6 Cleburne 5 Coffee 154 Colbert 63 Conecuh 1 Coosa 0 Covington 12 Crenshaw 0 Cullman 167 Dale 21 Dallas 4 DeKalb 39 Elmore 119 Escambia 9 Etowah 88 Fayette 0 Franklin 8 Geneva 22 Greene 1 Hale 8 Henry 48 Houston 287 Jackson 41 Jefferson 1,235 Lamar 0 Lauderdale 248 Lawrence 1 Lee 1,538 Limestone 376 Lowndes 2 Macon 7 Madison 2,534 Marengo 0 Marion 12 Marshall 186 Mobile 957 Monroe 2 Montgomery 418 Morgan 238 Perry 0 Pickens 6 Pike 39 Randolph 0 Russell 126 Shelby 806 St. Clair 312 Sumter 4 Talladega 128 Tallapoosa 191 Tuscaloosa 413 Walker 19 Washington 1 Wilcox 0 Winston 1

For LBM & trade operators serving Alabama

Alabama is a tracked market for PermitFocus. If you're an LBM (lumber and building materials) operator, roofing contractor, HVAC company, plumber, concrete supplier, doors/windows dealer, paint distributor, or flooring contractor selling into new single-family construction — Alabama's 13,913 permits/yr represent active accounts you could be pursuing.

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