Centennial building permit search: the Self-Service Portal, statuses and records

Which addresses this covers

The City permits work inside its own limits only. Homes with a Centennial mailing address in unincorporated Arapahoe County, and Greenwood Village, Littleton, Englewood, Lone Tree and Aurora, get their permits elsewhere, so search the right office first.

How to look up the permits on a Centennial address

1. Open the Self-Service Portal. The page needs scripts to run, so use a normal browser.
2. Search by the street address, the parcel number or the permit number. The City's how-to-apply guide says the portal's location search takes "an address, parcel number, or partial address or parcel number".
3. Open each permit on the property. A furnace, water heater or roof is its own permit, separate from a remodel.
4. Read the status (table below) and the finaled date.
5. You only need to log in or register to apply; the guide says the My History tab "displays only for registered users".

What the statuses mean

The City's file uses Complete, Issued, In Review, Expired and Void, and records a finaled date.

Of the permits issued October 2024 to September 2025, 82.6% had finished, 16.2% had expired and 1.2% were still open by our 20 October 2026 snapshot. The share that expired is highest for HVAC (27.2%) and plumbing (22.0%) in the same group, so an old furnace or water-heater permit that never got a final is common here and worth closing before you sell.

When the record is not online

The City's Request Public Records page says to search the portal first: "If you cannot locate the record in our database, then submit the online request and we will research it for you." You get a confirmation email and the answer by email; the page cites C.R.S. 24-72-203 for three working days to search, extendable by seven, and says "Fees may apply". Records can be viewed at the Centennial Civic Center, 13133 E. Arapahoe Rd., from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; the phone is 303-325-8000 (read 24 October 2026).

What our Centennial pages add

The Centennial page adds the City's permits up. Counts are permits issued October 2024 to September 2026; finished share and days are for permits issued October 2024 to September 2025.

Roofing permits fell 48% from the first year of the window to the second (1,672 to 872); re-roofs follow hailstorms, so roofing counts swing from year to year. ZIP code 80122 had the most permits, 3,744 of 13,474, October 2024 to September 2026. The permit statistics page has year and month counts, how long permits take has the days by kind, permits by ZIP code splits them by area and browse permits lists the rows. Fences are on fence permits and sheds and garages on accessory permits. To check a contractor, see How to check a contractor's license in Colorado.

What this does not tell you

The City's published table names no contractor, so we cannot say who did the work. The value is the valuation declared on the permit, and many over-the-counter home permits list none. Right-of-way, temporary use and development permits are left out.