Corpus Christi building permit search: the Dynamic Portal and the monthly permit reports

Which tool to use

The City permits property inside city limits. The Development Services page links an Address Search site that tells you whether a property is inside the city.

How to look up the permits on a Corpus Christi address

1. Open the monthly reports page and download the Excel version for the month the work was done, and the month before.
2. Search the sheet for your street name in the Str Name column, then match the Str No.
3. Note each permit number. A new house or a remodel usually has a building permit plus separate plumbing, electrical and mechanical permits.
4. Read the Applicant column to see which registered contractor pulled each one.
5. Look the permit number up in the Dynamic Portal for its current status and inspections, or call Development Services at 361-826-3240.

What the statuses mean here

The Status column in each monthly report is a snapshot from the day that report was run, and a permit appears only in the month it was issued. In the stacked reports from September 2023 to September 2026, 83.5% of permits show Issued and 15.8% Closed. The Closed share is higher for permits issued early in the month (18.9% for days 1 to 10) than late (11.5% for days 21 to 31), which shows the column records only what closed within weeks.

So a permit marked Issued in an old report is not evidence that the work was never inspected. Check the live record.

When the record is not online

The permit-level monthly reports start in September 2023. For anything older, or for plans and inspection records, use the City's General Public Information Request Form, linked from the Public Records page. The City asks you to check its free online records first and says information is released "as promptly as possible unless the information is exempt" under the Public Information Act (read 24 October 2026).

What our Corpus Christi pages add

Our Corpus Christi page stacks the monthly reports from October 2024 to September 2026:

New-home permits fell 22% and solar 47% from the first year of the window (October 2024–September 2025) to the second. ZIP 78415 had the most permits, 5,635. Each kind-of-work page lists the contractors that filed the most permits in the window, which is volume, not quality. The permit statistics page has year, month and ZIP counts, and browse permits lists the rows. To check a Texas license, see How to check a contractor's license in Texas.

What this does not tell you

The reports never update a status and carry no final date, so we show no finished share or time to final. Most new-home and trade permits carry no declared value, so we show no costs. We have not matched contractor names to state license records, so we don't rate or rank firms.