Structural permits · District of Columbia

Where District of Columbia adds on and rebuilds, permit by permit.

Additions, framing, and foundation work are the largest residential spends in the permit record, and they pull every other trade with them. Tradewinds observes them in county permit records.

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What structural filings make visible.
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Additions

An addition is the biggest committed job on a residential parcel, and it schedules mechanical, electrical, and finish work behind it.

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Framing and foundations

Structural filings date the start of a project, which is the earliest useful point to reach anyone selling into it.

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The trades behind it

One structural permit generally means several more filings on that parcel over the following months.

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High project value

These are the parcels where the most money is committed, matched to their assessment record.

28699
structural permits observed in District of Columbia, since January 2009

By county

Washington DC 28699

By year

2009 1085
2010 1281
2011 1339
2012 1438
2013 1689
2014 1599
2015 1837
2016 1711
2017 2069
2018 1745
2019 1870
2020 1825
2021 1948
2022 1914
2023 1505
2024 1436
2025 1441
2026 967

Other trades in District of Columbia

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

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Tell us your territory and we will bring the data to the first call. See the counties and trades we cover on the coverage page, or the firms doing this work in the contractor registry.

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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.