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Illinois building permits & home builders

Live single-family residential permit data and the most active licensed builders across all 98 counties in Illinois. Updated weekly from US Census Bureau Building Permits Survey + county public records.

Permits (12mo)
10,301
Statewide single-family
Counties tracked
98
All scored 0–100
Top market
Cook
1,611 permits
Active builders
0
Top 10 ranked below

Top counties in Illinois by permit volume

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

  1. Cook County1,611
  2. Will County1,536
  3. Kane County1,351
  4. McHenry County752
  5. DuPage County728
  6. Kendall County551
  7. Lake County397
  8. Madison County359
  9. St. Clair County300
  10. Winnebago County295

Top home builders in Illinois

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

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

All 98 counties in Illinois

Adams 48 Alexander 0 Bond 22 Boone 48 Brown 4 Bureau 16 Calhoun 5 Carroll 18 Cass 1 Champaign 208 Christian 48 Clark 12 Clay 3 Clinton 39 Coles 10 Cook 1,611 Crawford 7 Cumberland 0 De Witt 16 DeKalb 195 Douglas 24 DuPage 728 Edgar 8 Effingham 30 Fayette 1 Ford 7 Franklin 13 Fulton 17 Greene 1 Grundy 101 Hancock 2 Hardin 0 Henderson 6 Henry 17 Iroquois 7 Jackson 3 Jasper 1 Jefferson 3 Jersey 30 Jo Daviess 34 Johnson 0 Kane 1,351 Kankakee 106 Kendall 551 Knox 2 La Salle 51 Lake 397 Lawrence 53 Lee 26 Livingston 43 Logan 6 Macon 32 Macoupin 45 Madison 359 Marion 19 Marshall 5 Mason 1 Massac 8 McDonough 1 McHenry 752 McLean 152 Menard 6 Mercer 17 Monroe 57 Montgomery 12 Morgan 11 Moultrie 14 Ogle 43 Peoria 67 Perry 31 Piatt 18 Pike 9 Pope 0 Pulaski 0 Putnam 4 Randolph 6 Richland 5 Rock Island 76 Saline 0 Sangamon 171 Schuyler 0 Shelby 32 St. Clair 300 Stark 2 Stephenson 13 Tazewell 78 Union 10 Vermilion 5 Wabash 1 Warren 8 Washington 13 Wayne 1 White 0 Whiteside 22 Will 1,536 Williamson 110 Winnebago 295 Woodford 24

For LBM & trade operators serving Illinois

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