PermitFocus
Home · Markets · North Carolina

North Carolina building permits & home builders

Live single-family residential permit data and the most active licensed builders across all 100 counties in North Carolina. Updated weekly from US Census Bureau Building Permits Survey + county public records.

Permits (12mo)
50,217
Statewide single-family
Counties tracked
100
All scored 0–100
Top market
Wake
6,482 permits
Active builders
0
Top 10 ranked below

Top counties in North Carolina by permit volume

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

  1. Wake County6,482
  2. Brunswick County3,777
  3. Forsyth County2,286
  4. Johnston County2,089
  5. Union County1,943
  6. Gaston County1,783
  7. Harnett County1,632
  8. Durham County1,611
  9. Mecklenburg County1,502
  10. Catawba County1,490

Top home builders in North Carolina

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

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

All 100 counties in North Carolina

Alamance 1,216 Alexander 80 Alleghany 80 Anson 42 Ashe 137 Avery 121 Beaufort 116 Bertie 29 Bladen 77 Brunswick 3,777 Buncombe 803 Burke 331 Cabarrus 1,168 Caldwell 360 Camden 163 Carteret 330 Caswell 50 Catawba 1,490 Chatham 411 Cherokee 191 Chowan 52 Clay 82 Cleveland 392 Columbus 43 Craven 464 Cumberland 588 Currituck 295 Dare 318 Davidson 851 Davie 132 Duplin 109 Durham 1,611 Edgecombe 46 Forsyth 2,286 Franklin 626 Gaston 1,783 Gates 9 Graham 19 Granville 204 Greene 48 Guilford 1,328 Halifax 43 Harnett 1,632 Haywood 314 Henderson 497 Hertford 2 Hoke 505 Hyde 29 Iredell 1,056 Jackson 205 Johnston 2,089 Jones 33 Lee 497 Lenoir 109 Lincoln 593 Macon 186 Madison 106 Martin 0 McDowell 126 Mecklenburg 1,502 Mitchell 44 Montgomery 129 Moore 793 Nash 365 New Hanover 1,028 Northampton 13 Onslow 982 Orange 261 Pamlico 75 Pasquotank 159 Pender 519 Perquimans 44 Person 103 Pitt 697 Polk 120 Randolph 441 Richmond 43 Robeson 215 Rockingham 280 Rowan 792 Rutherford 192 Sampson 108 Scotland 59 Stanly 261 Stokes 156 Surry 201 Swain 61 Transylvania 132 Tyrrell 18 Union 1,943 Vance 52 Wake 6,482 Warren 191 Washington 2 Watauga 231 Wayne 679 Wilkes 104 Wilson 284 Yadkin 92 Yancey 84

For LBM & trade operators serving North Carolina

North Carolina 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 — North Carolina's 50,217 permits/yr represent active accounts you could be pursuing.

PermitFocus gives you the full builder directory (with DBPR license + contact details where available), drive-time catchment analysis for picking new locations, watchlists with weekly digest alerts, and CRM-lite for tracking outreach. Free 14-day trial, no credit card.

See the full North Carolina dashboard

Score model, builder permit-pull velocity, drive-time analyzer, weekly digest. 14-day free trial.

Start free trial →