Which office has your permit
Adams County Community & Economic Development permits unincorporated land only: Welby, Sherrelwood, Berkeley, Twin Lakes, Strasburg and the rural east. Thornton, Westminster, Commerce City, Brighton, Northglenn, Federal Heights, Arvada and Aurora issue their own permits; see the Thornton and Aurora guides for two of them.
| Tool | Search by | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| e-Permit Center building search | Permit number, permit type, street address, ZIP, parcel number, license type and number, name of business, project name, date range | Each permit's record, status and inspections |
| Building Permits Eye On Adams (county ArcGIS) | Any field, including address and parcel | Case opened date, type of work, status, a link to each Accela record; our source |
| One Stop Permitting Center, (720) 523-6800 | Address, permit number | Answers on a specific permit |
How to look up the permits on an Adams County address
- Open the e-Permit Center and choose Search Building Applications / Permits.
- Enter the street number and street name, or the permit number from your paperwork (building permits look like BDP23-3148), or the parcel number.
- To see a contractor's other jobs, search by License Number or Name of Business instead.
- Open each record and read its status and inspection history.
- If the property is inside a city, the county will not have it; go to that city's permit office.
What the statuses mean
These are the common status values in the county's permit layer:
| Status in the county data | What it means |
|---|---|
| Case Finaled | Final inspection passed |
| C of O Issued | Certificate of occupancy issued |
| Closed | Case closed |
| Permit Issued | Issued; the layer often leaves this in place after the work is finished |
| In Review | Still in plan review; we do not count these |
Because most permits stay at Permit Issued in the layer, we show no finished share for Adams County. To know whether a job passed, open the record in the e-Permit Center and check that a final inspection is recorded.
When the record is not online
Records not in the e-Permit Center go through a Colorado Open Records Act request. The county says to "Fill out the Open Records Request Form and email to the department contact", using its CORA contact list by department, or to send the request to cora@adamscountyco.gov if you cannot identify the custodian (CORA page, read 24 October 2026).
What our Adams County pages add
Our Adams County page counts the county's permits, October 2024 to September 2026:
| Kind of work | Permits (Oct 2024–Sep 2026) | Share | Homes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roofing | 1,869 | 30% | 95% |
| HVAC | 1,169 | 19% | 91% |
| Electrical | 693 | 11% | 90% |
| Remodels and repairs | 549 | 9% | 100% |
| New homes | 327 | 5% | 100% |
| Plumbing | 320 | 5% | 97% |
| Garages, sheds and shade structures | 287 | 5% | 100% |
| Solar | 256 | 4% | 40% |
| Fences and walls | 162 | 3% | 83% |
Roofing permits fell 46% from the first year of the window (1,217) to the second (652), while HVAC permits rose 35%. The permit statistics page has year and month counts, and browse permits lists the rows. To check a Colorado licence, see How to check a contractor's license in Colorado.
What this does not tell you
The county's layer names no contractor, so we have no firm lists for Adams County; use the e-Permit Center's licence search for that. It has no issue date, job value, final inspection date or ZIP code, so permits are dated by the day the case was opened and we show no costs or time to final.
How we know this
The search fields are from the Adams County e-Permit Center's building search page, the contact number from its home page, and the records route from the county's CORA page, all read 24 October 2026. Our counts are the county's Building Permits Eye On Adams layer, read 23 October 2026: permits whose case was opened October 2024 to September 2026.
Numbers come from public permit records in 57 cities, data through October 23, 2026. Nobody paid to be on this page and nobody can.
Questions
- How do I find out if a permit was pulled on my house in Adams County?
If the house is in unincorporated Adams County, search the address in the county's e-Permit Center (aca-prod.accela.com/ADAMSCO) under Search Building Applications / Permits. No login is needed to search. If the house is in Thornton, Westminster, Commerce City, Brighton or another city, ask that city instead.
- Can I search Adams County permits by contractor?
Yes. The e-Permit Center's building search has License Type, License Number and Name of Business fields as well as street address, permit number and parcel number.
- Why does my Adams County permit still say Permit Issued?
The county's public permit layer leaves most permits at Permit Issued after the work is done, so open the record in the e-Permit Center and read its inspections, or call the One Stop Permitting Center at (720) 523-6800.
- How many building permits does unincorporated Adams County issue?
About 3,124 a year: 6,247 permits from October 2024 to September 2026 in the county's permit layer. Roofing led with 1,869, then HVAC with 1,169.
- How do I get an old Adams County permit file?
File a Colorado Open Records Act request. The county asks you to fill in its Open Records Request Form and email it to the department's records contact, or to cora@adamscountyco.gov if you cannot tell which department holds the record.
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- Asheville building permit search: SimpliCity, statuses and old records
- Auburn, WA building permit search: MyBuildingPermit and the City's permit file
- Aurora, CO building permit search: Property Info, inspection results and records