Jackson County, Oregon building permit search: how to look up permits on a property

Which properties this covers

Jackson County Development Services, Building Safety, serves unincorporated Jackson County: White City, Applegate, Ruch, Prospect, Trail and the rural valleys. Medford, Ashland, Central Point and the other cities that run their own building departments issue their own permits; Medford has its own pages and permit guide on this site.

The county warns that "Not all Application and Permit data is available through the web in digital format at this time."

How to look up the permits on a Jackson County property

1. Confirm the property is outside the cities with their own building departments.
2. For recent work, open Oregon ePermitting and search the street number and name, or the parcel number.
3. For older work, open Property Data Online, click the Search tab, choose Map & TaxLot and enter both values without spaces (the county's example: Map # 372w25da, TaxLot # 100).
4. Open the link Click to View Assessment & Planning Details for this account, then Permit Details. Check every account on the taxlot: the county notes some historical permits are tied to only one of them.
5. Expect several permits per job. A new house usually has a structural or dwelling permit plus separate electrical, mechanical and plumbing permits.
6. Check the contractor on the Oregon CCB search; our Oregon licence guide explains what to read.

What the statuses mean

Of permits applied for August 2024 to July 2025 and issued, 95% were finished by our count.

What our Jackson County pages add

Our Jackson County page counts the county's permits by kind of work, by application month, August 2024 to July 2026:

85% of the 7,317 permits were for homes. The permit statistics page has counts by year and month, and browse permits lists the rows. Whether a job needs a permit is in Do I need a permit?

What this does not tell you

The county's file names no contractor, has no issue date (we count by application month) and records only the date of the last status change, so we show how many permits finished but not how long they took. It has no ZIP code for most permits. The value is the estimated cost on the permit; electrical and plumbing permits usually carry none.