Sample ReportBuilt From Live Records

Baton Rouge Construction Intelligence

A sample PermitScope report for Baton Rouge, generated from live records pulled from the East Baton Rouge Parish open data portal. Deduplicated projects, values as the source states them, the parties the record names where it names them, and the data quality of the feed measured instead of asserted.

Data as of October 25, 2026. Current cycle: permits issued between September 25 and October 23, 2026, fetched in one pull of 680 records. Report generated from East Baton Rouge Parish Open Data, EBR Building Permits (dataset 7fq7-8j7r), public domain.

This report groups 495 permits into 465 distinct projects at one site address after absorbing 30 duplicate or companion permit records. Distinct projects, not raw permit counts, is the honest unit in this market. The source has no status field, so permits are treated as active on the issued-register basis described below. The source permit classes split this cycle as 328 residential and 101 commercial projects, with 36 unclassified. Coverage is East Baton Rouge Parish, not only the city of Baton Rouge.

How to read this report: this is a trade-work feed with a building tail. 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 (corrected, see the data quality section). 391 projects (84.1 percent) name a contractor party, and 69 name one on a building permit; the contractor column is a single untyped name, so no party is called a general contractor of record anywhere in this report. Trade figures come only from the hand-audited, corrected Baton Rouge matching rules; only the six audited trades are named.

Cycle at a glance

Projects after deduplication: 465
Permits grouped, issued-register basis: 495
Permits excluded before grouping: 185
Class A, contractor named on a building permit: 69
Class B, trade-led, no project lead of record: 395
Class C watchlist: 1; no party is named in the record
Projects naming a contractor party: 391 (84.1 percent)
Projects naming an applicant: 454 (97.6 percent)
Projects with a stated valuation: 376 (80.9 percent), totaling $58,875,737.12 counted once per project

All 185 exclusions are documented in the run: administrative types that document no construction (Occupancy Permit variants, Change in Occupancy/Use Classification, Short Term Rental, and Tire Business). The source has no status field, so the remaining records are treated as active on the issued-register basis. The pull matched the parish’s own count for the window exactly and reconciled with zero unexplained difference.

Verified projects

The three cards below survived permit-by-permit verification against the parish’s live data: each address, valuation, contractor, and issued date was re-checked on the live record before this sample was published, and each card links to its source record.

New educational building on Perkins Rd

Record confidence 70 / 100

Class A · Contractor named on a building permit

Address: 13431 Perkins Rd, Baton Rouge, LA
Stated project value: $22,000,000
Contractor named on the building permit: Lincoln Builders of Baton Rouge, Inc. - Justin Whittington
Project basis: 1 permit grouped at this address
Permit status: Active on the issued-register basis; the source has no status field
Lead permit issued: 2026-10-01
Territory: ZIP 70810; radius matching from source coordinates

Recorded scope

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.

Implied trades (PermitScope inference from the recorded scope, under the audited Baton Rouge rules): Concrete, Drywall, Excavation, Painting, Roofing (audited trades only; the project carries additional unaudited labels). Inference, not a parish record field, and not a claim that any scope is unfilled.

Project basis: permit 179226, New Building Permit (C), issued by East Baton Rouge Parish on 2026-10-01. The contractor is named on the building permit itself; the source never types that contractor as a general contractor. Applicant in record: Cecilia Gomes. Verify current status before acting. Source record: East Baton Rouge Parish record for permit 179226.

Re-roof on Magazine Dr

Record confidence 83 / 100

Class B · Contractor named in the record on a trade permit

Address: 2861 Magazine Dr, Baton Rouge, LA
Stated project value: $12,433
Contractor named in record: Pelican Roofing Company, LLC
Project basis: 1 permit grouped at this address
Permit status: Active on the issued-register basis; the source has no status field
Lead permit issued: 2026-10-22
Territory: ZIP 70816; radius matching from source coordinates

Recorded scope

Remove the existing roofing system down to deck and install new Certainteed Patriot Architectural Shingles with Shadow Ridge (Class 4) capping, a 110 mph wind rating, 6 inch drip edge, ridge vents and/or turbines, and replacement of roof pipe flashings.

Implied trades (PermitScope inference from the recorded scope, under the audited Baton Rouge rules): Roofing. Inference, not a parish record field, and not a claim that any scope is unfilled.

Project basis: permit 187455, Re-Roof (R), issued by East Baton Rouge Parish on 2026-10-22. The contractor is named on the trade permit itself, which makes this card the market’s dominant segment in miniature: a named roofing contractor on a small stated value. Applicant in record: Emily Gardner. Verify current status before acting. Source record: East Baton Rouge Parish record for permit 187455.

Rehabilitation of a single-family residence on 75th Ave

Record confidence 90 / 100

Class A · Contractor named on a building permit

Address: 2188 75th Ave, Baton Rouge, LA
Stated project value: $49,000
Contractor named on the building permit: Southeast Louisiana Community Development Corporation - Timothy Moore
Project basis: 1 permit grouped at this address
Permit status: Active on the issued-register basis; the source has no status field
Lead permit issued: 2026-10-23
Territory: ZIP 70807; radius matching from source coordinates

Recorded scope

Interior and exterior rehabilitation of an existing single-family residence, including roofing replacement, window and exterior door replacement, kitchen and bathroom renovation, interior finishes, electrical upgrades, plumbing fixture replacement, HVAC servicing and repairs, drywall repair, painting, flooring replacement, and associated site improvements; no additional dwelling units are created.

Implied trades (PermitScope inference from the recorded scope, under the audited Baton Rouge rules): Drywall, Electrical, Painting (audited trades only; the permit’s visible trade is Roofing, and the project carries additional unaudited labels). Inference, not a parish record field, and not a claim that any scope is unfilled.

Project basis: permit 183343, Existing Bldg - Remodel Only (R), issued by East Baton Rouge Parish on 2026-10-23. The contractor is named on the building permit itself; the source never types that contractor as a general contractor. Applicant in record: Timothy Moore. Verify current status before acting. Source record: East Baton Rouge Parish record for permit 183343.

Trade activity in this cycle

Audited trades only

Counts are projects carrying at least one implied trade under the corrected Baton Rouge rules, hand-audited and re-verified on fresh samples. Roofing 225 (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 fetched records, 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 they are not marketed by name here.

Territory is ZIP or radius, your choice

ZIP codes are present on all 465 of this cycle’s projects, across 26 ZIPs, and coordinates join to 459 of 465, so Baton Rouge matching works by the ZIP codes you serve or by distance from the base address you give us. In the launch test, a 5 mile radius around a downtown Baton Rouge center covered 263 of the 459 radius-reachable projects in this cycle, and the ZIP pair 70810 and 70816 covered 82. Six projects this cycle cannot be radius-matched (five carry no coordinates in the record, and one multi-building address carries conflicting coordinates); every one of them is still reachable by ZIP.

Data quality, measured on this run

Contractor column, real fill: 62.5 percent of records after the literal N/A and homeowner values are normalized to no named party; 100 percent carry a raw string
Applicant: 98.2 percent of records; the source has no status field at all
Valuation present: 100 percent of records; plausible (at least $500) 59.1 percent; placeholders are led by $0 on 237 rows and are never printed as dollars
Scope / address, ZIP, issue date: 93.4 percent scope; 100 percent address, ZIP, and issue date
ZIP / coordinates: 100 percent / 99.3 percent of records
Placeholder-only projects: 35, flagged and never printed as dollar figures
Conflicting valuations: 6 projects, shown as conflicts, never summed

Valuations are filer-reported construction values, not verified budgets. Median correction (2026-10-25): 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 sample prints. A permit says work was authorized; it never says a scope is open, a bid is being taken, or a contractor is hiring.

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Data: East Baton Rouge Parish Open Data, EBR Building Permits dataset (7fq7-8j7r), public domain, attribution 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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