Building permits by ZIP code in the City of Santa Barbara

How these numbers are made

Source: City of Santa Barbara GIS, Building Permits layer (Building_Permits FeatureServer, Accela BLD records), read 19 Oct 2026. We count permits issued September 2023 through August 2025; denied and withdrawn permits are left out.

Building and trade permits the City of Santa Barbara issues inside city limits: new homes and ADUs, additions, alterations, re-roofs, solar, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, pool, demolition and sign permits. Revisions to an earlier permit, flood-elevation determinations and other administrative records, and grading and paving sitework are not counted. Goleta, Montecito and the rest of unincorporated Santa Barbara County are permitted by other offices and are not in this file.

• The city's layer names no contractor, so there are no contractor lists, rankings or firm pages for Santa Barbara.
• The layer has no declared job value, so we show no costs.
• The city has not added permits to this layer since early September 2025, so these pages end with August 2025.
• A permit counts as finished when the city marks it complete; the final date is the layer's completed date.
• Homes are permits the city codes as one- or two-family dwellings (its R and R-3 codes) and its 1 & 2 family express permits; apartment buildings count as other.
• Electrical, mechanical and plumbing permits are separate from the building permit for the same job, so one project can count more than once.

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