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The City of Hoboken, NJ building permits

Data through July 2026 · updated 19 Oct 2026

1,661 building permits were issued in the City of Hoboken from July 2025 to July 2026, about 1,533 a year. Remodel and repair permits lead with 981, then plumbing (222) and electrical (118). 80% were for homes. The city's file doesn't name contractors, so we can't rank, compare or profile firms here: these pages show what was built and when.

1,661permits issued
1,533a year
80%for homes
Jul 2026records through

What gets built here

What this page can and can't show

  • ✓Permits the city issued, by kind of work and month.
  • ✓What the job was declared at on the permit.
  • Who did the work. The city's file doesn't name contractors, so we can't rank, compare or profile firms here.
  • Which permits were finished. Hoboken files a certificate of approval with the state for only a few of its permits.
  • Where, by ZIP code. The file carries no usable ZIP code.
  • Street addresses or owners. We publish counts and permit rows without them.

Construction permits the City of Hoboken construction office issued and reported to the state, for the City of Hoboken only. Jersey City, Weehawken, Union City and the rest of Hudson County are not included.

Permits by kind of work

Permits issued July 2025 through July 2026, every kind of work with 100 or more. Last 12 months on file is Aug 2025–Jul 2026. Homes is the share issued as residential permits.

Kind of workPermitsShareLast 12 mo
Remodels & repairs98159%906
Plumbing22213%207
Electrical1187%113
Other31019%271

Fewer than 100 permits, so no row: additions (22), new homes (6), demolition (2).

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Guides for Hoboken

Local permit rules and lookups, each with Hoboken's own permit numbers.

How these numbers are made

Source: New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, NJ Construction Permit Data (data.nj.gov), Hoboken rows, read 19 Oct 2026. We count permits issued July 2025 through July 2026; denied and withdrawn permits are left out. Hoboken files a certificate of approval with the state for only a few of its permits, so no finished share is shown.

Construction permits the City of Hoboken construction office issued and reported to the state, for the City of Hoboken only. Jersey City, Weehawken, Union City and the rest of Hudson County are not included.

  • Hoboken publishes no permit file of its own. These are the permits Hoboken reports to the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, whose register names no contractor, so there are no contractor lists, rankings or firm pages for Hoboken.
  • The state register was last updated in August 2026 and Hoboken reported almost no permits for April to June 2025, so the window runs from July 2025 through July 2026.
  • Hoboken seldom reports certificates of approval to the state, so the register can't show which permits finished or how long a permit takes.
  • Nearly every permit is filed as an alteration. Electrical and plumbing are permits that carried only that trade's fee; any job with a building fee counts as a remodel. Homes include apartment and condominium buildings as well as one- and two-family houses.
  • The value is the estimated construction cost on the permit, which sets the fee. It is not a final cost.
  • Hoboken is a single ZIP code (07030), so there are no ZIP pages.

Counts are permits, not jobs: one job can need several permits. Nobody paid to be on this page and nobody can. Sources and definitions →

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Contractor Records, "The City of Hoboken, NJ building permits", https://contractorrecords.com/hoboken/, data through July 2026, from the City of Hoboken Construction Code Office building-permit records.

Link to a table: By kind of work · Browse the permits · Permits each month.

Download the tables (CSV): Permits by kind of work · Permits in the last 12 months on file.

Common questions

  • How many building permits does Hoboken issue a year?About 1,533 a year in the City of Hoboken: 1,661 permits issued July 2025 through July 2026, 1,526 of them in the last 12 months on file (to July 2026). That counts the permits the city issued, homes and commercial, not denied or withdrawn applications.
  • Can I find a contractor's permits in Hoboken?Not from this file: the city publishes its permits without the contractor's name, so we can't list or rank firms. Ask the contractor for the permit number of a past job.
  • What do people build most in Hoboken?Remodels & repairs: 981 of the 1,661 permits (59%), then plumbing (222), electrical (118), July 2025 through July 2026.
  • How do I look up a building permit in Hoboken?Filter the permit list on this page by month, kind of work to see what was issued. For one property's permits, search the city's own records by address or permit number; we don't publish addresses. How to look up a permit in Hoboken →
  • How many permits were issued in Hoboken last month?172 in July 2026, the last full month on file; 1,526 over the last 12 months on file (to July 2026).

Browse the permits

Browse 1,661 permits

Every permit in the file issued July 2025 through July 2026, newest first. Pick a month or a kind of work. Each row is one permit: no street address, no names.

The list loads as you reach it (1,661 permits).

IssuedKind of workCity permit type

Permits each month, the last 12 months on file

Permits issued each month and the kind of work with the most. A month opens its permits in the list above.

MonthPermitsTop kind of work
Jul 2026172Remodels & repairs (87)
Jun 2026151Remodels & repairs (91)
May 2026136Remodels & repairs (80)
Apr 2026136Remodels & repairs (86)
Mar 2026109Remodels & repairs (68)
Feb 202680Remodels & repairs (56)
Jan 2026146Remodels & repairs (60)
Dec 2025120Remodels & repairs (76)
Nov 202598Remodels & repairs (59)
Oct 2025102Remodels & repairs (64)
Sep 2025138Remodels & repairs (90)
Aug 2025138Remodels & repairs (89)

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