Prince George's County building permit search: Momentum, ePermits and MPIA requests

Which system has your permit

DPIE permits building, electrical, mechanical, fire-protection, sign and raze work across the county, from Upper Marlboro and Bowie to Hyattsville, Laurel and Fort Washington. Plumbing and gas permits come from WSSC Water. A few municipalities issue some permits of their own. For the neighbouring counties, see the Montgomery County and Washington, DC guides.

How to look up the permits on a Prince George's County address

1. Open Permit LookSee, enter the address, choose the Building Permits tab and click Search. This finds permits from May 2023 on.
2. For older work, open Permit History by Street Address in the legacy ePermit system and enter the address.
3. Note each permit number. Electrical and mechanical permits are separate from the building permit.
4. For a legacy permit, run the number through Permit Status Tracking and Inspection History by Permit Number, linked from the same site.
5. For plumbing or gas work, ask WSSC Water; DPIE does not issue those permits.

What the statuses mean here

The county's open data file has no status and no final inspection date, so it can't say which permits were finished. Status lives in the systems themselves: Permit Status Tracking and Inspection History for legacy permits, and the Momentum record behind Permit LookSee for newer ones. DPIE notes that permit status in ePlan (ProjectDox) is shown only to the applicant on each case, so an owner who hired a contractor should ask to be added as "Applicant–Owner–Principal" (Permits Search Flyer, read 24 October 2026).

When the record is not online

Request older files, plans and inspection records under the Maryland Public Information Act. DPIE says requests "should be submitted on the DPIE MPIA form and emailed to" DPIE.MPIA@co.pg.md.us, naming the subject and a date range. The first two hours of search are free, then $82 an hour; paper copies are $0.32 a page, and duplicate permits, inspection history and certified copies are $6.60 each. DPIE has up to 30 working days to respond and tells you the cost before copies are made (Methods for Submitting MPIA Requests, read 24 October 2026).

What our Prince George's County pages add

Our Prince George's County page counts DPIE permits from May 2021 to April 2023:

Solar permits rose 25% between the two years of the window (May 2021–April 2022 against May 2022–April 2023). HVAC shows almost no homes because the file doesn't say whether a mechanical permit is for a house. ZIP 20772 had the most permits, 7,325. The permit statistics page has year, month and ZIP counts, and browse permits lists the rows. Home improvement contractors in Maryland are licensed by the Maryland Home Improvement Commission.

What this does not tell you

Our window ends in April 2023. When DPIE moved building permits to Momentum in 2023, the open data file thinned out, and the separate Momentum file covers building permits only and stops in July 2025, so no current public file covers every kind of permit. The file names no contractor, so we have no firm lists, and it has no status or final date, so we show no finished share or time to final. The declared construction cost is filled on about half of the permits.