St. Catharines Construction Data

20k+ building permit records from St. Catharines, Ontario, plus zoning. One API, geocoded, normalized, and refreshed automatically.

20k
Total Permits
5k
Last 12 Months
6
Permit Categories

Datasets available in St. Catharines

Beyond building permits, St. Catharines also has Zoning in the same API, queryable with the same parameters.

Building permits
20k records
/permit
Checked daily
Zoning
46k zones
/zone
Checked monthly

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About St. Catharines Construction Data

St. Catharines building permits cover all permitted construction activity in the city: new homes and condos, commercial and industrial builds, residential renovations, additions, demolitions, and changes of use. BuildData also tracks zoning for St. Catharines, available through the same API with the same parameters. BuildData collects and normalizes these records from St. Catharines’s open data portals on a daily-to-weekly cadence (by dataset), making 20k+ St. Catharines permits searchable through a single REST API.

5k+ building permits were issued in St. Catharines, ON over the past 12 months. Renovation permits lead by volume. Every record is geocoded and normalized to a consistent schema, so you can query St. Catharines the same way you query any other Canadian city in the dataset.

Common uses

  • Proptech and real estate: track the new development pipeline, spot supply trends before listings hit market
  • Insurance: verify construction activity and renovation history at the property level
  • Urban planning and research: analyze permit trends by type, neighbourhood, and time period
  • Construction and trades: identify new project opportunities as permits are issued across Ontario

St. Catharines Permits by Type

Breakdown of permit categories across all years on record.

Renovation
8k
Other
6k
Addition
2k
New Construction
2k
Demolition
1k
Change of Use
55

Recent St. Catharines Building Permits

Latest permits issued in St. Catharines, loaded live from the BuildData API.

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Query St. Catharines Permits via API

Filter by type, date range, address, or construction value. Returns JSON.

curl --request GET --url "https://builddata-canadian-construction-data-api.p.rapidapi.com/permit?municipality=st_catharines&permit_type_canonical=new_construction&limit=10" --header "X-RapidAPI-Key: YOUR_KEY_HERE" --header "X-RapidAPI-Host: builddata-canadian-construction-data-api.p.rapidapi.com"

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