Sample ReportBuilt From Live Records

New Orleans Construction Intelligence

A sample PermitScope report for New Orleans, generated from live records pulled from the City of New Orleans open data portal. Deduplicated projects, the contractors of record named in the city record, values as the source states them, and the data quality of the feed measured instead of asserted.

Data as of October 24, 2026. Current cycle: permits issued between September 24 and October 23, 2026, fetched in one pull of 1,299 records. Report generated from City of New Orleans Open Data, Permits (dataset rcm3-fn58), CC0 1.0.

This report groups 894 active permits into 787 distinct projects at one site address after absorbing 107 duplicate or companion permit records. Distinct projects, not raw permit counts, is the honest unit in this market. The source land-use codes split this cycle as 635 residential, 132 commercial, and 20 unclassified projects.

How to read this report: the raw feed is dominated by small trade and service permits (293 electrical service, 178 mechanical fuel gas, 165 mechanical HVAC, and 123 electrical vacancy permits of 1,299 raw records), so volume skews to small trade-led jobs. The median stated project value is $12,000. Lead with stated value and recorded scope, not with project counts. Trade figures in this report come only from the hand-audited, corrected New Orleans matching rules; only the six audited trades are named.

Cycle at a glance

Projects after deduplication: 787
Active permits grouped: 894
Permits excluded before grouping: 405
Class A, contractor of record named on a building permit: 207
Class B, trade-led or applicant-led, no contractor of record on a building permit: 580
Class C watchlist: 0; an applicant is named on every project
Projects naming a contractor party: 732 (93.0 percent)
Projects naming an applicant: 787 (100 percent)
Projects with a stated valuation: 630 (80.0 percent), totaling $133,889,972 counted once per project

All 405 exclusions are documented in the run: 286 finaled, 88 administrative records that authorize no construction, 25 closed, 2 temporary certificates of occupancy, 2 inspections finaled, and 2 voided. The pull matched the city’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 city’s live data: each address, valuation, contractor, and status was re-checked on the live record before this sample was published, and each card links to its source record.

New standalone gymnasium with classrooms on a school campus

Record confidence 80 / 100

Class A · Contractor of record named on a building permit

Address: 6400 Saint Anthony Ave, New Orleans, LA
Stated project value: $9,177,472
Contractor of record: Woodward Design + Build
Project basis: 1 permit grouped at this address
Permit status: Permit Issued
Lead permit issued: 2026-10-15
Territory: Radius only; the source publishes no site ZIP code

Recorded scope

New construction of a standalone gymnasium with classrooms and support spaces, about 18,500 GSF on an existing school campus.

Implied trades (PermitScope inference from the recorded scope, under the audited New Orleans rules): Concrete, Electrical, Plumbing Fixtures, Roofing. Inference, not a city record field, and not a claim that any scope is unfilled.

Project basis: permit 26-08030-NEWC, issued by the City of New Orleans on 2026-10-15, status Permit Issued in the source. The source names the contractor in its dedicated contractor column and never types that contractor as a general contractor. Verify current status before acting. Source record: City of New Orleans record for permit 26-08030-NEWC.

Complete renovation of a single-family home on Aline St

Record confidence 70 / 100

Class A · Contractor of record named on a building permit

Address: 925 Aline St, New Orleans, LA
Stated project value: $237,900
Contractor of record: Brabol Renovations, LLC
Project basis: 1 permit grouped at this address
Permit status: Permit Issued
Lead permit issued: 2026-10-21
Territory: Radius only; the source publishes no site ZIP code

Recorded scope

Complete renovation: structural demo, foundation, framing, siding, roof, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, tile on bathrooms, wood floor refinishing, paint.

Implied trades (PermitScope inference from the recorded scope, under the audited New Orleans rules): Concrete, Electrical, Tile. Inference, not a city record field, and not a claim that any scope is unfilled.

Project basis: permit 26-29432-RENO, issued by the City of New Orleans on 2026-10-21, status Permit Issued in the source. Verify current status before acting. Source record: City of New Orleans record for permit 26-29432-RENO.

Small pool construction on Bourbon St, with its electrical service permit

Record confidence 100 / 100

Class A · Contractor of record named on a building permit

Address: 1214 Bourbon St, New Orleans, LA
Stated project value: $199,460 on the pool permit; the companion electrical service permit states $3,325. The two are a disclosed conflict pair, shown, never summed.
Contractor of record: ILEX Design Build, LLC (pool permit); Daniel Blake Achord (electrical service permit)
Project basis: 2 permits grouped at this address
Permit status: Permit Issued
Lead permit issued: 2026-10-05
Territory: Radius only; the source publishes no site ZIP code

Recorded scope

Construction of a small pool, about 4 by 6 feet, with associated site work; companion permit installs a 40 amp circuit for pool equipment.

Implied trades (PermitScope inference from the recorded scope, under the audited New Orleans rules): Electrical, Pool Plaster. Inference, not a city record field, and not a claim that any scope is unfilled. Two different contractors appear across this one grouped project, each named on its own permit.

Project basis: permit 26-22632-POOL, issued by the City of New Orleans on 2026-10-05, status Permit Issued in the source; companion permit 26-30559-SERV, issued 2026-10-20. Verify current status before acting. Source records: permit 26-22632-POOL and permit 26-30559-SERV.

Trade activity in this cycle

Audited trades only, with the small-job caveat attached

Counts are projects carrying at least one implied trade under the corrected New Orleans rules, hand-audited and re-verified on fresh samples. Electrical 291 (37.0 percent), Roofing 138 (17.5 percent), Concrete 54 (6.9 percent), Plumbing Fixtures 37 (4.7 percent), Tile 25 (3.2 percent), Pool Plaster 16 (2.0 percent). 489 projects (62.1 percent) carry at least one implied trade.

Read the electrical figure honestly: it reflects the feed’s many small electrical service permits, not 291 distinct large opportunities. Other trade labels appear in the data but have not been hand-audited in this market, so they are not marketed by name here. One label is excluded entirely: a glass label that comes in part from frameless glass railings in office renovations does not document shower enclosure work, so no glass figure is presented for New Orleans.

Territory is radius, never ZIP

The source publishes no ZIP column for project sites. Coordinates are present on 100 percent of records, so New Orleans matching works by distance from the base address a subscriber gives us. In the launch test, a 5 mile radius around a French Quarter base point covered 672 of the 787 projects in this cycle.

Data quality, measured on this run

Applicant present: 100 percent of records
Contractor column filled: 85.1 percent of records
Valuation plausible (at least $500): 72.9 percent of valued records; placeholders under $500 are never printed as dollars
Scope, address, issue date, coordinates: 100 percent of records
Placeholder-only projects: 30, flagged and never printed as dollar figures
Conflicting valuations: 63 projects, shown as conflicts, never summed

Valuations are filer-reported construction values, not verified budgets. 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: City of New Orleans Open Data, Permits dataset (rcm3-fn58), CC0 1.0, attribution Safety and Permits. PermitScope reads the records; the city does not endorse this service, and subscribers receive no advance or privileged access to them.

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