Townline
Data licensing

The tri-state permit data API

The deepest building-permit coverage in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut — collected from town systems directly, daily to same-day, exactly where national providers are thinnest.

214,122
permits on file
22
counties
123,591
linked contractor licences
Same-day
freshest sources

What a record looks like

{
  "id": "permit-citysquared-greenwich-ct-…",
  "muni": "Town of Greenwich",
  "regionId": "fairfield-ct",
  "permitNo": "2026-1729",
  "permitType": "Building",
  "description": "Remodel kitchen.",
  "status": "Issued",
  "issuedDate": "2026-07-24",
  "valuation": 75000,
  "contractor": "…",
  "address": "…",
  "latitude": 41.02, "longitude": -73.62,
  "trades": [{ "id": "general-contractor", "name": "General contractor" }],
  "statusEvents": [
    { "oldStatus": "Applied", "newStatus": "Issued", "observedAt": "…" }
  ]
}

Owner contact details are never part of the licensed feed — permit facts, contractors, valuations, geocodes, and status history are. Owner identity (name and property address) is available under an expanded agreement.

What you get

Search API
Permits by county, town, trade, status, date, and valuation — the same endpoints that power the Townline app.
Status-change events
A cursor feed of every observed transition (applied → issued → closed), so your pipeline pulls deltas, not dumps.
Licence roster
430k+ NY/NJ/CT contractor licences, matched to permit activity.
Cost aggregates
Median project costs by county, town, and work type, from real valuations.

Who licenses this

Solar and generator dealers prospecting installs, building-product teams tracking where their category gets installed, home-services groups doing territory diligence, insurers and proptech products that need permit history by address. If your problem is “national data is thin exactly where we operate,” this is the regional fix.