Hamilton Building Permit Record

This page is an interactive view of the Hamilton Building Permit Record: 113,433 building permits issued across the amalgamated City of Hamilton, Ontario (Hamilton, Ancaster, Dundas, Flamborough, Glanbrook and Stoney Creek), January 2010 – May 2026, compiled from the City of Hamilton’s monthly building-activity reports. It requires JavaScript.

Sections: Search · Filings · Explorer · Map · Areas · Permit categories · Corridors · Projects · Trends · Patterns · Analysis

Published by TPR Hamilton Open Data. Data licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

Heat maps

Patterns in the record

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Seasonality

The calendar

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Geography over time

Community, quarter by quarter

Each row is shaded against its own busiest month, so the rhythm of a small community is as readable as Hamilton proper. Each column is a quarter.

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Character of the work

Permit category by community

Counts across the full record. Each row is shaded against its own largest cell.

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Streets

Corridors lighting up

The 24 busiest streets, quarter by quarter. A dense run of dark cells is a street under sustained change.

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Cost of the work

What each kind of permit costs

Share of each permit category's filings falling in each declared-value band. Rows sum to 100%; permits with no declared value are excluded.

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