Las Cruces building permit search: how to look up permits in Las Cruces, NM

Where Las Cruces permits can be found

How to look up the permits on a Las Cruces address

1. Open Accela Citizen Access. The Building tab opens on "Search for Records".
2. Pick Search by Address from the drop-down, enter the street number and name, and run the search.
3. Open each record. Electrical, plumbing, mechanical, re-roof and solar work are separate records from the building permit.
4. Read the record status and the inspection list. For a new home, addition or alteration, look for the certificate of occupancy or completion.
5. To check a contractor's history, choose Search by Licensed Professional Information and enter the license number from your contract.

What the statuses mean

Each record in Accela Citizen Access carries its own status. The City's GIS permit layer, which our pages use, carries none, so we show no finished share. Only building permits (new homes, additions, alterations) get a certificate of occupancy or completion in the public data, and we use its date as the final:

Electrical, plumbing, mechanical, roofing and solar permits have no certificate, so they have no time to final here. How long does a permit take? has the detail.

When the record is not online

File an Inspection of Public Records Act (IPRA) request with the City Clerk, through the portal at lascrucesnm.govqa.us, by mail to P.O. Box 20000, Las Cruces, NM 88004, or by fax to 575-541-2117. A written request "must contain the name, address and telephone number of the person making the request". The City must permit inspection "no later than fifteen (15) calendar days" after receiving it; "There is no fee for records produced electronically", and paper copies are $1.00 a page up to 8.5 by 11 inches (Public Records Request, read 24 October 2026). The Clerk's office is at (575) 541-2112.

What our Las Cruces pages add

The Las Cruces page counts permits issued October 2024 to September 2026 by kind of work:

74% of the 13,509 permits were for homes. The permit statistics page has the file by year and month, and browse permits lists the rows without owners or street addresses. To check a contractor's New Mexico license, see How to check a contractor's license in New Mexico.

What this does not tell you

The GIS layer has no status and no ZIP code, so we show no finished share and no ZIP pages. Its value is the project valuation on the permit; electrical, plumbing and mechanical permits carry none. We have not matched contractor names to New Mexico license records, so we count permits per firm and don't rate or rank them. Unincorporated Doña Ana County is permitted by the county and is not in the file.