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Building permits in 21211, the City of Baltimore

Data through September 2026 · updated 18 Oct 2026

1,262 building permits were issued in ZIP code 21211 by Baltimore City Department of Housing & Community Development, Permits and Inspections, June 2025 through September 2026: 3% of the 37,029 in the City of Baltimore, the 13th busiest ZIP code. Remodel and repair permits lead with 341. Permits from a city that runs its own permit office are not counted.

1,262permits in 21211
916last 12 months
82%for homes
Sep 2026records through

Permits in 21211 by kind of work

Share here is the part of the 1,262 permits in 21211; citywide is the same for all of the City of Baltimore.

Kind of workPermitsShare hereCitywide
Remodels & repairs34127%31%
Plumbing26621%18%
Electrical19415%17%
HVAC15712%15%
Fences & walls443%2%
Solar343%3%
Garages, sheds & shade structures192%1%
New homes141%under 1%
Roofing141%1%
Demolition10under 1%under 1%
Additions6under 1%under 1%
Other16313%10%

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Permits in 21211 by year

Permits issued in each calendar year of the window.

YearMonthsPermitsPer year
2025 (from June)75931,017
2026 (through September)9669892

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How these numbers are made

Source: Open Baltimore: Housing and Building Permits 2019-Present (DHCD, ArcGIS layer Building Permits), read 18 Oct 2026. We count permits issued June 2025 through September 2026; denied and withdrawn permits are left out. The file carries no usable permit status, so it can't say which permits were finished, so no finished share is shown.

Building and demolition permits the City of Baltimore issues inside city limits: combination permits for homes and for commercial buildings (which cover building, electrical, plumbing and mechanical work in one permit) and demolition (razing) permits. Use-and-occupancy permits, temporary event permits, zoning appeals, permit modifications and extensions of earlier permits in the same file are not counted. Baltimore County, which surrounds the city, is a separate jurisdiction with its own permit office and is not in this file.

  • The city's file names no contractor, so there are no contractor lists, rankings or firm pages for Baltimore.
  • The file has no status and no final inspection date, so we show no finished share and no time to final; every permit is listed as open.
  • The city moved to a new permit system in early 2025 (permit numbers changed from COM to BRCM and BCCM, and February 2025 has almost no permits), and monthly counts settle only from June 2025, so the window starts there and is shorter than two years.
  • Most work is issued as one combination permit for building, electrical, plumbing and mechanical work, and the file has no trade field, so the kind of work is read from the permit's description: a permit that names one trade counts under that trade, and a renovation that covers several counts as a remodel. Fire-protection, sign and antenna work counts as other.
  • Homes are the city's residential combination permits; commercial combination permits, including those for apartment buildings, count as other.
  • The value is the cost declared on the permit. The ZIP code comes from the city's property records for the permit's block and lot.

Counts are permits, not jobs: one job can need several permits. Nobody paid to be on this page and nobody can. Sources and definitions →

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Contractor Records, "Building permits in 21211, the City of Baltimore", https://contractorrecords.com/baltimore/zip/21211, data through September 2026, from Baltimore City Department of Housing & Community Development, Permits and Inspections building-permit records.

Link to a table: By kind of work · By year.

Download the tables (CSV): Permits in 21211 by kind of work · Permits in 21211 by year.

Common questions

  • How many building permits were issued in 21211?1,262 permits issued by the city in ZIP code 21211, June 2025 through September 2026: 341 remodels & repairs, 266 plumbing, 194 electrical. 916 were in the last 12 months.
  • What is built most in 21211?Remodels & repairs: 341 of the 1,262 permits (27%), against 31% citywide.
  • Who did the work in 21211?The city's file doesn't name contractors, so we can't say. Ask a contractor for the permit numbers of past jobs and check them with the city.

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