Home addition permits in Lincoln, NE

How these numbers are made

Source: Lancaster County Assessor, PublicAnalytics map service: Permits layer, read 19 Oct 2026. We count permits issued October 2024 through September 2026; denied and withdrawn permits are left out. The file carries no usable permit status, so it can't say which permits were finished, so no finished share is shown.

Building permits for properties with a Lincoln address, as logged by the Lancaster County Assessor. Lincoln Building & Safety issues permits for the city and the county around it, so a few rural properties with a Lincoln mailing address are included. The small towns of Lancaster County (Waverly, Hickman, Bennet, Firth and others) are not counted. Only permits that can change a property's assessed value are logged: no stand-alone electrical, plumbing or HVAC permits.

• The Assessor's permit log names no contractor, so there are no contractor lists, rankings or firm pages for Lincoln.
• The Assessor logs only permits that can change assessed value: new homes, additions, remodels, decks, sheds, garages, pools, demolitions and some roofs. Electrical, plumbing and HVAC permits are not in the log, and re-roofs are mostly missing.
• The log's status is the Assessor's own review, not a final inspection, and it has no final dates, so we show no finished share and no time to final; every permit is listed as open.
• The value is the amount on the permit as logged by the Assessor.

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