Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Our fifth market. Every figure on this page comes from the current East Baton Rouge Parish qualification cycle, run on issued permit records from the parish open data portal. The newest permits in this cycle were issued two days before the run; the dataset itself was updated the day before the run. Coverage on this page is East Baton Rouge Parish, not only the city of Baton Rouge: 440 of this cycle’s 465 projects carry a Baton Rouge city value in the record, and the rest sit in parish communities including Zachary, Baker, Pride, and Greenwell Springs. Other markets open only after their data passes the same checks; the markets section on the home page shows what is live and what is in preparation.
Latest 30-day run of the qualification engine on East Baton Rouge Parish records.
How to read Baton Rouge honestly, because this market’s shape is specific: this is a trade-work feed with a building tail, not the reverse. Service job kinds are 276 of 465 projects under the run classification, Re-Roof permits alone are 180 of the 680 records fetched, and the median stated project value is $19,287.10. Roofing contractors will find this cycle deep; builders will find a smaller, real set of large projects at the top of the value table. The stated total is driven by a small number of very large projects.
The value shape: by stated value, 224 projects under $25,000, 101 between $25,000 and $150,000, 51 over $150,000, and 89 with no stated value. 80.9 percent of projects (376) carry a stated valuation, totaling $58,875,737.12 counted once per project.
The source permit classes split this cycle’s projects as 328 residential, 101 commercial, and 36 unclassified.
How Baton Rouge projects are classified
Every project carries one class, and the class says only what the record supports. No class claims that any scope of work is unfilled.
Class A Contractor named on a building permit
A contractor is named in the record on one of the project’s building permits. The source carries a single untyped contractor name and never types that contractor as a general contractor, so PermitScope does not call these parties general contractors, here or anywhere. 69 projects this cycle.
Class B Trade-led
No contractor is named on a building permit, but a party is named on the project, most often the contractor on a trade permit such as a Re-Roof permit, or the applicant. 395 projects this cycle. The near-absence of Class C in this market is structural: the applicant field fills 98.2 percent of source rows, so almost every project names at least an applicant.
Class C Watchlist
No party is named anywhere in the record. In Baton Rouge this cycle that is exactly 1 project. These projects still carry scope text, stated values, and audited trade matching, so they are genuine watchlist intelligence; they just do not tell you who is running the job, because the parish record does not say.
Mapped from real Baton Rouge permit scope, hand-audited
These are the trades PermitScope has hand-audited in Baton Rouge. Each was sampled project by project against the actual permit scope text, the matching rules were corrected locally for Baton Rouge permit language, and the corrected counts were re-verified on fresh samples before any figure was published. Implied trades are PermitScope inference from scope text and permit types, and they are labeled as inference on every project card in every report.
Matched this cycle under the corrected, audited rules: Roofing 225 projects (48.4 percent), Electrical 97 (20.9 percent), Concrete 66 (14.2 percent), Excavation 65 (14.0 percent), Painting 63 (13.5 percent), Drywall 61 (13.1 percent). 349 projects (75.1 percent) carry at least one implied trade.
Roofing’s dominance is a property of the feed, not a matching artifact: Re-Roof permits alone are 180 of the 680 records fetched, and the hand audit measured Roofing at 0 percent clear false positives before the local rules were even applied. Other trade labels appear in the data but have not been hand-audited in this market, so PermitScope does not market them by name here until they are audited.
Territory in Baton Rouge works two ways, your choice. By ZIP code: the source publishes a site ZIP on every record, and all 465 of this cycle’s projects carry one, across 26 ZIPs. Or by radius around your base address: coordinates are present on 99.3 percent of records, and PermitScope matches your projects by distance from the base point you give us. Six projects this cycle cannot be radius-matched (five carry no coordinates in the record, and one multi-building address carries conflicting coordinates we will not guess between); every one of them is still reachable by ZIP, and we say so rather than guess where they belong.
Largest projects by stated value in the record
Values are the filer’s reported construction value, printed only when the record states at least $500. The party named is the party named in the record, where one is named.
| Project | Stated value | Party named in record | Recorded scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13431 Perkins Rd | $22,000,000 | Lincoln Builders of Baton Rouge, Inc. - Justin Whittington (contractor) | New two-story 65,000 square foot educational building serving Pre-K to 5th grade on an undeveloped site, with a new private roadway, parking, and site drainage (1 permit, issued 2026-10-01) |
| 232 Lafayette St | $5,006,500 | Build Commercial Construction, LLC (contractor) | Abatement, selective demolition, and renovation and buildout of the existing 100-year-old, two-story, 12,310sf structure for new Visit Baton Rouge offices (1 permit, issued 2026-10-19) |
| 8125 Jefferson Hwy | $4,042,000 | DEI Incorporated - Mark Thomas Whipple (contractor) | Construct new 1 1/2 story steel and wood framed structure with a 3 lane drive-thru (1 permit, issued 2026-10-19) |
| 5930 Plank Rd | $1,762,500 | Lanco Construction, Inc. - Michael Reine (contractor) | Construction of a new quick service restaurant, slab-on-grade foundation, concrete block walls, about 1,971 sq ft (1 permit, issued 2026-10-01) |
| 3730 Floyd Dr | $1,600,000 | H. A. May Construction, LLC - Hamilton Alexander May (contractor) | Interior of existing house demolished to studs, renovation of 2,993 SF, first floor addition 630 SF and second floor work (1 permit, issued 2026-10-13) |
| 7920 Sevenoaks Ave | $1,296,096.33 | PATIN CONSTRUCTION GROUP, L.L.C. - Jeffrey J. Patin (contractor) | New single-story Craftsman style residence on a private lot (1 permit, issued 2026-10-06) |
| 3165 Murphy Dr | $1,100,000 | Ivy Developments LLC - Vincent Paul Centanni III (contractor) | Single-family residence (1 permit, issued 2026-10-19) |
Read this table with the market’s structure in mind: all seven largest projects are Class A, with a contractor named on a building permit. Value alone never makes a named-party lead; the class follows the named parties and the permit the name sits on, not the dollar figure. The largest stated value is the filer’s figure on the live record, printed because the record states it, not because it has been independently validated as a budget.
Real reports, built from this cycle’s records
The Baton Rouge sample below was generated from live records by the same engine that builds subscriber digests, and its featured projects were re-verified permit by permit against the parish’s live data.
Baton Rouge Construction Intelligence, sample report
The cycle at a glance, the largest projects, activity by audited trade, measured data quality, and three verified project cards.
Read the sample reportMethod and honesty notes
• Valuations are filer-reported construction values, not verified budgets. Placeholder values under $500 are led by $0 on 237 of the 680 fetched rows; the 35 projects that rest on placeholder values only are flagged and never printed as dollar figures. 6 projects carry conflicting valuations across their permits; the engine shows the conflict rather than summing them. One figure on this page is corrected with a dated note: the run’s recorded median, $19,361.99, is the upper-middle value of the sorted list; the statistical median of the 376 stated values is $19,287.10, and that is the figure this page prints (correction recorded in the sample report, 2026-10-25).
• The source has no status field. Only the issued-register basis described above is claimed, and the administrative exclusions are a documented type decision made at the connector stage, not a source status. Coverage is East Baton Rouge Parish: 25 of this cycle’s 465 projects sit outside the city of Baton Rouge in the record’s own city field.
• A permit says work was authorized. It never says a scope is open, a bid is being taken, or a contractor is hiring. No project on this page claims availability of work.
• Completeness in the source this cycle: address, ZIP, and issue date 100 percent of records; scope 93.4 percent; valuation present on 100 percent (59.1 percent plausible at $500 or more); coordinates on 99.3 percent; the contractor column carries a real name on 62.5 percent of records after the literal “N/A” and “homeowner” values are normalized to no named party (84.2 percent of the permits that grouped into projects).
Data: East Baton Rouge Parish Open Data, EBR Building Permits dataset (dataset identifier 7fq7-8j7r), public records as published, public domain, with attribution to Permits and Inspections, East Baton Rouge Parish. PermitScope reads the records; the parish does not endorse this service, and subscribers receive no advance or privileged access to them.
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