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NJ Permit Intelligence
Real permit outcomes across New Jersey’s busiest jurisdictions — volume, construction value, and time-to-issue, derived from the live municipal record.
399 jurisdictions materialized · expanding to statewide
1,786,327
Permit cases
$80.3B
Construction value
121 days
Median time to issue
399
Jurisdictions
Permit volume by year
Filings per year across the materialized jurisdictions. The record is densest from 2021 on.
2000
5,793
2001
4,251
2002
4,208
2003
5,972
2004
6,892
2005
6,910
2006
6,635
2007
6,473
2008
5,530
2009
5,776
2010
6,004
2011
6,813
2012
7,961
2013
9,889
2014
9,696
2015
11,225
2016
12,325
2017
15,028
2018
17,367
2019
25,141
2020
41,306
2021
271,749
2022
313,667
2023
297,491
2024
279,721
2025
284,750
2026
85,298
2033
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Busiest jurisdictions
By total permit volume.
Jersey City
31,122
Franklin Twp Somerset
24,908
Hamilton Mercer
24,896
East Brunswick
24,877
Cherry Hill
24,713
Edison
24,657
Fair Lawn
24,593
Monroe Twp
24,569
Clifton
23,957
Plainfield
23,824
Jackson
23,355
Middletown Twp
22,101
Time to issue, by permit type
Median days from filing to issuance.
International Residential Code
95d n=589,047
Accessory buildings and miscellaneous structures
127d n=73,046
One and two family units, 5 lodgers or less each
284d n=48,943
Business Uses
143d n=40,740
Multiple family dwellings, dormitories, etc.
239d n=37,269
Mercantile buildings
162d n=4,528
Restaurants, Night Clubs, Dance Halls, and similar
166d n=3,519
Educational
233d n=3,247
Derived from the materialized municipal permit record. Coverage expands as more jurisdictions are processed toward statewide (≈1.79M cases / 399 AHJs).