PermitFocus

Georgia building permits & home builders

Live single-family residential permit data and the most active licensed builders across all 156 counties in Georgia. Updated weekly from US Census Bureau Building Permits Survey + county public records.

Permits (12mo)
35,436
Statewide single-family
Counties tracked
156
All scored 0–100
Top market
Gwinnett
2,377 permits
Active builders
0
Top 10 ranked below

Top counties in Georgia by permit volume

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

  1. Gwinnett County2,377
  2. Fulton County2,050
  3. Chatham County1,494
  4. Henry County1,493
  5. Jackson County1,370
  6. Barrow County1,230
  7. Hall County1,153
  8. Cherokee County1,058
  9. Forsyth County1,022
  10. Paulding County998

Top home builders in Georgia

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

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

All 156 counties in Georgia

Appling 13 Atkinson 14 Bacon 0 Baker 0 Baldwin 169 Banks 94 Barrow 1,230 Bartow 636 Ben Hill 14 Berrien 70 Bibb 111 Bleckley 64 Brantley 42 Brooks 35 Bryan 348 Bulloch 811 Burke 47 Butts 83 Calhoun 3 Camden 317 Candler 7 Carroll 655 Catoosa 356 Charlton 33 Chatham 1,494 Chattahoochee 0 Chattooga 1 Cherokee 1,058 Clarke 230 Clay 3 Clayton 312 Clinch 0 Cobb 785 Coffee 79 Colquitt 88 Columbia 908 Cook 108 Coweta 530 Crawford 16 Crisp 18 Dade 10 Dawson 841 DeKalb 687 Decatur 59 Dodge 6 Dooly 35 Dougherty 59 Douglas 367 Early 9 Echols 2 Effingham 407 Elbert 123 Emanuel 61 Evans 18 Fannin 289 Fayette 406 Floyd 296 Forsyth 1,022 Franklin 161 Fulton 2,050 Gilmer 20 Glynn 429 Gordon 273 Grady 48 Greene 270 Gwinnett 2,377 Habersham 224 Hall 1,153 Hancock 19 Haralson 168 Harris 136 Hart 109 Heard 47 Henry 1,493 Houston 884 Irwin 25 Jackson 1,370 Jasper 106 Jeff Davis 7 Jefferson 18 Jenkins 23 Johnson 0 Jones 59 Lamar 120 Lanier 29 Laurens 18 Lee 87 Liberty 370 Lincoln 42 Long 214 Lowndes 645 Lumpkin 215 Macon 11 Madison 95 Marion 12 McDuffie 55 McIntosh 80 Meriwether 123 Miller 2 Mitchell 14 Monroe 202 Montgomery 43 Morgan 92 Murray 103 Muscogee 184 Newton 294 Oconee 217 Oglethorpe 86 Paulding 998 Peach 104 Pickens 220 Pierce 82 Pike 100 Polk 93 Pulaski 54 Putnam 48 Quitman 15 Rabun 76 Randolph 4 Richmond 395 Rockdale 290 Schley 13 Screven 15 Seminole 6 Spalding 245 Stephens 23 Stewart 0 Sumter 21 Talbot 0 Tattnall 38 Taylor 10 Telfair 0 Terrell 3 Thomas 112 Tift 82 Toombs 36 Towns 75 Treutlen 4 Troup 364 Turner 4 Twiggs 7 Union 203 Upson 96 Walker 206 Walton 400 Ware 42 Warren 0 Washington 38 Wayne 80 Webster 6 Wheeler 0 White 140 Whitfield 316 Wilkes 46 Wilkinson 1 Worth 24

For LBM & trade operators serving Georgia

Georgia 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 — Georgia's 35,436 permits/yr represent active accounts you could be pursuing.

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