Permit density calculator
Construction activity near an address
Drop a U.S. street. We read last-12-month building permits in a 1-mile circle and return a plain-English block heat score — Quiet, Stirring, Hot, or Boiling — plus count bands and a new-vs-alteration-vs-demolition mix when the city tags those fields. This is a building-permits-near-me estimator, not a mortgage, flip, or ROI calculator.
Live lookups use the same public ArcGIS and Socrata stack as the paid report (51 covered cities). Streets and exact valuations stay behind the $12 neighborhood teaser. Record of Sale, LLC owns Filed Nearby. Questions: publisher@noticenearby.com.
What-if · not a live city file
If your city published N permits at an average valuation
Transparent hypothetical. Change the two inputs. The heat bands are the same ones used on live lookups.
Quiet
Few permits · No published value
- Quiet
- Stirring
- Hot
- Boiling
Quiet: if a city published 0 permits in a 1-mile circle at $0 average, that is few and about $0 in job value (no published job value on the mapped rows). This is a what-if, not a live city file.
Questions
What is a block heat score?
Block heat is a Quiet / Stirring / Hot / Boiling reading of last-12-month building-permit activity in a 1-mile circle. It starts from permit count, then can rise when the tagged mix is heavy on new construction or demolition, or when published job value sits in the heaviest band. It is not a property appraisal and not a mortgage or ROI calculator.
Which cities have a live building-permits-near-me estimate?
Any address whose pin lands in a Filed Nearby covered city uses that city's public ArcGIS or Socrata permit file — the same stack as the paid 1-mile report. Coverage is the live list under the homepage search box (Portland, New York City boroughs, Los Angeles, and the other wired cities).
Why don't you show streets and exact valuations?
The estimator is a teaser. You get a count band, a work mix when the city tags it, and a valuation band when the layer publishes job value. Individual streets, dollar amounts, and city file numbers stay in the $12 neighborhood report or the $19 city file.
What if my city is not covered?
You still get a transparent what-if: enter how many permits a city might have published and an average valuation. The score uses the same bands as live lookups so the page is useful even when we do not read that city's file yet.
How is a permit density calculator different from the paid report?
This page answers “how busy is construction near this address?” in one score. The paid 1-mile report lists the actual filings — streets, types, dates, and valuations when the city published them — and can email a watch when something new matches.