We use public records to help you make a shortlist. They show what a contractor has filed and where they have worked in Little Rock, AR. They can't tell you whether someone will be right for your home.
Arkansas licenses residential builders and home-improvement contractors (Contractors Licensing Board), electricians, plumbers and HVAC contractors.
We don't hold the licensing board's file for Little Rock, AR, so we don't show license status for the 1,228 firms on the permit file. Check each one yourself.
Ask the contractor for the license number and look it up at Arkansas CLB Find a Licensed Contractor.
The middle value recorded on this contractor's matching permits. It's a permit value, not a quote or the final price. Ask for a written estimate.
Matching Little Rock, AR permits in the most recent year of our data (May 2025–Apr 2026; the file ends Apr 2026). It shows recent recorded activity here, not every job the company did.
For contractors with at least 8 permits a year or more old, the share the City closed, compared with permits of the same trade issued in the same quarter. Lawn irrigation and additions aren't measured. A permit can stay open because of paperwork or timing, so this isn't a workmanship grade.
Not shown yet for Little Rock, AR — see the note below.
About the ranking: The score combines how much of this exact work a contractor has on record, how often their older permits reached completion (where we can measure it), how well their usual job size matches your budget, how recently they've been active, and how much of their work is near you. A measure we can't calculate is left out rather than guessed, and a thin record pulls the score toward the middle. A contractor whose matched license has a problem is listed after everyone else. You set the weights with the sliders on every list.
Little Rock, AR specifics: Little Rock posts its permit file as a periodic download, not a live feed. The edition used here runs to April 30, 2026, so the three-year window is May 2023 through April 2026 and nothing filed after that is included yet. The file records whether a permit is closed but not the date it closed, and an estimate of speed from permit status didn't hold up when we tested it, so no Little Rock trade shows a speed score or a usual number of days. The City records a job value only on building and HVAC permits: electrical, plumbing, lawn irrigation, solar and generator permits carry none, so those trades show permit counts and completion but no typical cost or price comparison. Lawn irrigation permits are nearly all closed within a month of being issued, so that trade shows no completion rate. A trade permit pulled under a builder's account, or by the builder of the same house, is counted as the builder's, and owner-pulled permits aren't ranked. Home values come from the county CAMA roll matched by street address, so about 8% of permits show no home value. Arkansas's licensing boards publish no bulk license file (they offer a per-name search only), so license status isn't shown. Locations are by ZIP code. Some firms appear under two spellings.
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Sources, matching rules and definitions for every city: Methodology. The numbers: Little Rock, AR permit statistics · How long permits take in Little Rock, AR
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