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Pennsylvania building permits & home builders

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

Permits (12mo)
13,251
Statewide single-family
Counties tracked
67
All scored 0–100
Top market
Philadelphia
1,053 permits
Active builders
0
Top 10 ranked below

Top counties in Pennsylvania by permit volume

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

  1. Philadelphia County1,053
  2. Allegheny County1,047
  3. Chester County982
  4. Montgomery County870
  5. Butler County854
  6. York County841
  7. Lancaster County686
  8. Cumberland County530
  9. Bucks County404
  10. Adams County388

Top home builders in Pennsylvania

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

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

All 67 counties in Pennsylvania

Adams 388 Allegheny 1,047 Armstrong 27 Beaver 145 Bedford 54 Berks 226 Blair 68 Bradford 56 Bucks 404 Butler 854 Cambria 45 Cameron 0 Carbon 129 Centre 216 Chester 982 Clarion 18 Clearfield 45 Clinton 25 Columbia 53 Crawford 80 Cumberland 530 Dauphin 192 Delaware 166 Elk 42 Erie 159 Fayette 148 Forest 3 Franklin 379 Fulton 20 Greene 20 Huntingdon 44 Indiana 43 Jefferson 0 Juniata 28 Lackawanna 222 Lancaster 686 Lawrence 55 Lebanon 222 Lehigh 342 Luzerne 237 Lycoming 61 McKean 24 Mercer 53 Mifflin 49 Monroe 166 Montgomery 870 Montour 8 Northampton 282 Northumberland 37 Perry 89 Philadelphia 1,053 Pike 130 Potter 14 Schuylkill 123 Snyder 40 Somerset 60 Sullivan 13 Susquehanna 53 Tioga 31 Union 40 Venango 39 Warren 19 Washington 288 Wayne 136 Westmoreland 318 Wyoming 14 York 841

For LBM & trade operators serving Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania 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 — Pennsylvania's 13,251 permits/yr represent active accounts you could be pursuing.

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