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Louisiana building permits & home builders

Live single-family residential permit data and the most active licensed builders across all 64 counties in Louisiana. Updated weekly from US Census Bureau Building Permits Survey + county public records.

Permits (12mo)
9,953
Statewide single-family
Counties tracked
64
All scored 0–100
Top market
East Baton Rouge Parish
1,527 permits
Active builders
0
Top 10 ranked below

Top counties in Louisiana by permit volume

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

  1. East Baton Rouge Parish County1,527
  2. Lafayette Parish County1,242
  3. St. Tammany Parish County877
  4. Bossier Parish County590
  5. Tangipahoa Parish County588
  6. Livingston Parish County547
  7. Calcasieu Parish County471
  8. Ascension Parish County403
  9. Orleans Parish County393
  10. Ouachita Parish County283

Top home builders in Louisiana

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

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

All 64 counties in Louisiana

Acadia Parish 121 Allen Parish 37 Ascension Parish 403 Assumption Parish 26 Avoyelles Parish 10 Beauregard Parish 77 Bienville Parish 13 Bossier Parish 590 Caddo Parish 165 Calcasieu Parish 471 Caldwell Parish 7 Cameron Parish 11 Catahoula Parish 1 Claiborne Parish 2 Concordia Parish 24 De Soto Parish 94 East Baton Rouge Parish 1,527 East Carroll Parish 2 East Feliciana Parish 12 Evangeline Parish 22 Franklin Parish 6 Grant Parish 28 Iberia Parish 109 Iberville Parish 94 Jackson Parish 0 Jefferson Davis Parish 58 Jefferson Parish 216 LaSalle Parish 15 Lafayette Parish 1,242 Lafourche Parish 247 Lincoln Parish 173 Livingston Parish 547 Madison Parish 1 Morehouse Parish 11 Natchitoches Parish 15 Orleans Parish 393 Ouachita Parish 283 Plaquemines Parish 31 Pointe Coupee Parish 26 Rapides Parish 197 Red River Parish 3 Richland Parish 28 Sabine Parish 57 St. Bernard Parish 84 St. Charles Parish 77 St. Helena Parish 10 St. James Parish 52 St. John the Baptist Parish 53 St. Landry Parish 111 St. Martin Parish 43 St. Mary Parish 30 St. Tammany Parish 877 Tangipahoa Parish 588 Tensas Parish 0 Terrebonne Parish 190 Union Parish 26 Vermilion Parish 250 Vernon Parish 11 Washington Parish 4 Webster Parish 25 West Baton Rouge Parish 82 West Carroll Parish 0 West Feliciana Parish 45 Winn Parish 0

For LBM & trade operators serving Louisiana

Louisiana 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 — Louisiana's 9,953 permits/yr represent active accounts you could be pursuing.

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