Building Permits · State Records
From NJ's statewide construction-permit database (DCA) — the same permits the township files, as reported to the state. May lag recent filings; for official history, submit an OPRA request.
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State filings and the township file, for any NJ address — open permits, work descriptions where the town is online, oil-tank permits, certificates and declared cost.
From NJ's statewide construction-permit database (DCA) — the same permits the township files, as reported to the state. May lag recent filings; for official history, submit an OPRA request.
Search an address to get the direct OPRA link for that municipality — for COs, zoning records, complaints, violations, and more.
Every construction permit issued in New Jersey is reported by the local construction official to the state Department of Community Affairs. The record is keyed by county, municipality, tax block and lot — not by street address — so this tool first resolves the address to its parcel on the state cadastral map, then pulls every permit filed against that block and lot. When a town has renumbered its tax map, permits filed under the parcel’s prior number are pulled too. Where the township runs EnerGov, FastTrack, or SDL, the live municipal file is pulled here as well.
Permit type (alteration, addition, new building, demolition), the subcodes that were fee’d — building, electrical, plumbing, fire, elevator and “other” (where mechanical and HVAC work lands) — declared construction cost, square footage, use group, the permit date and the certificate date. There is no free-text description of the work; that lives in the township’s own file. Where a town runs a public permit portal, those descriptions load on this page; otherwise an OPRA request to the construction office returns the full file.
A permit with no certificate date was issued but never closed with a final inspection. Open permits travel with the property: they can hold up a certificate of occupancy at resale and can mean the work was never inspected. Ask the seller to close them before closing — or confirm with the construction office that the state record simply lags.
Towns report on their own schedule, the statewide feed can trail local filings by months, and records from before the 2000s are thinner. An empty result means nothing was found in the state dataset — not that the house was never altered. Low counts for the most recent year or two are usually reporting lag, not a quiet year.
State permit records from the NJ Department of Community Affairs construction-permit file; township records from the municipality’s own system where it is online; parcel identity from the NJ Office of GIS cadastral layer. Recorded data only. The municipal construction office holds the official file. Built by Permit & Parcel, oprasearch.app.