Deck & Patio permits · District of Columbia

Where District of Columbia builds outdoor living, permit by permit.

Pool permits, structural additions, and new construction all generate outdoor living work. Tradewinds observes the projects in motion in county permit records, tied to the property behind each filing.

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What the permit record shows around outdoor work.
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Pool permits

A pool build brings deck and patio filings with it, on the same parcel, in a predictable sequence.

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New construction

Builders leave decking and outdoor living to the buyer, so new-construction parcels file their outdoor permits in year one or two.

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Additions and sunrooms

An addition changes the back of a house, and the deck that met the old footprint gets rebuilt to meet the new one.

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Older homes at high value

Homes built before 2000 often carry dated decks or none at all, and replacement timing shows in permit and property records.

24700
deck & patio permits observed in District of Columbia, since January 2009

By county

Washington DC 24700

By year

2009 1194
2010 1310
2011 1344
2012 1493
2013 1530
2014 1600
2015 1648
2016 1530
2017 1433
2018 1554
2019 1603
2020 1385
2021 1464
2022 1403
2023 1178
2024 1207
2025 1088
2026 736

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Every Monday we publish last week's deck & patio permits for every county we cover. Browse this week's activity.

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Built from county permit filings. Not every filing names a trade cleanly, and counties differ in what they publish, so these counts reflect our coverage as much as the work happening on the ground.