Dallas building permit search: DallasNow, statuses and open records

Where Dallas permits live

DallasNow's help line is (214) 948-4480, Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (read 24 October 2026). The portal covers the City of Dallas only: Irving, Garland, Mesquite, Richardson, Plano and unincorporated Dallas County run their own permit offices.

How to look up the permits on a Dallas address

1. Open the DallasNow building search. No account is needed to search.
2. Set the search type to Search by Address and enter the street number and name, or use the permit number from your paperwork.
3. Open each record on the address. Plumbing, electrical and mechanical work each carry their own permit, so a remodel usually shows several.
4. Read the status, then the inspections list, to see whether the final inspection passed.
5. To check who pulled a permit, switch to Search by Licensed Professional Information and look up the contractor's license number.

What the statuses mean

The City's open permit file uses these statuses. This is how our pages count them:

Of the permits issued November 2022 to October 2023, 72.8% were Complete, 26.8% were still open and 0.4% had expired, by the statuses the City recorded as of December 2024. The open file has no final inspection date, so we cannot say how long Dallas permits take.

When the record is not online

The City Secretary's Open Records page says requests under the Texas Public Information Act must be written, with "enough description and detail about the information requested" and your name, address and telephone number. You can send it to the director of the department most likely to hold the record, or to the Open Records Request Center, which routes it. The page notes the Act requires copies of existing records but not new records, and that the City does not hold Dallas County's records (read 24 October 2026).

What our Dallas pages add

DallasNow answers "what was permitted at this address". Our Dallas page answers "what gets permitted in Dallas, and where", from the City's permits issued November 2022 to October 2024:

71% of the 77,908 permits issued November 2022 to October 2024 were on homes. The permit statistics page breaks them down by year, month and season, permits by ZIP code shows where the work is (75229 led with 4,100 permits in the same window), and browse permits lists the rows without owner names or street addresses. To check a contractor's state license, use How to check a contractor's license in Texas.

What this does not tell you

The City's open permit file stops in November 2024, so our Dallas pages end with October 2024; newer permits are only in DallasNow. The file names no contractor, so we show counts, not firm rankings, and the value on a permit is the declared job value, not the final cost.