The data behind NearbyBuilds
657,958 municipal records from five cities (2008-11-24 → 2026-07-15), grouped into 12,094 projects representing 277,367 housing units and $43.7B in stated construction value. These figures are read straight from the database when this page loads.
Data last refreshed · refreshed weekly
Coverage by city
| City | Records | Projects | Units | Value | Geocoded | Span | Source & licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gatineau
QC |
946 | 321 445 notable filings |
7,626 | — | 91% | 2019-05-13 → 2026-04-20 |
Planning advisory committee (CCU) minutes
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 |
| Ottawa
ON |
1,626 | 1,127 1,626 notable filings |
91,552 | — | 100% | 2008-11-24 → 2026-06-26 |
Development Applications
Open Government Licence – City of Ottawa |
| Calgary
AB |
230,409 | 4,650 10,147 notable filings |
73,932 | $30.2B | 100% | 2015-01-02 → 2026-07-15 |
Building Permits (c2es-76ed)
Open Government Licence – City of Calgary |
| Edmonton
AB |
171,355 | 3,394 7,768 notable filings |
37,398 | $13.5B | 92% | 2015-01-02 → 2026-07-14 |
General Building Permits (24uj-dj8v)
Open Data Licence – City of Edmonton |
| Montréal
QC |
253,622 | 2,602 5,780 notable filings |
66,859 | — | 98% | 2015-01-05 → 2026-07-13 |
Construction, transformation and demolition permits
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 |
“Projects” means filings grouped by location. For the permit cities, only major permits (see About) are grouped into projects; the rest stay searchable. Geocoding runs against 1,078,975 address points from the cities' own registers.
Citing this data
These figures change on every weekly refresh. Cite the refresh date, not just the URL:
If you re-publish a single city's figures, cite that city's original dataset and licence too (right-hand column above) — that is the primary source; we are only the index.
Open API
The same data powers the map through a read-only JSON API — no key, no signup. It is meant for reasonable use; for bulk processing, take the cities' datasets from the source directly.
| Projects | https://nearbybuilds.com/api/projects?city=<slug>add &slim=1 to omit the per-filing timeline |
|---|---|
| Radius around a point | https://nearbybuilds.com/api/nearby?lat=&lng=&km=1every record, not just the major projects |
| Full-text search | https://nearbybuilds.com/api/search?q=<terme>&city=<slug> |
| Geocoding | https://nearbybuilds.com/api/geocode?q=<adresse>&city=<slug> |
| RSS feeds | /gatineau/feed.xml · /ottawa/feed.xml · /calgary/feed.xml · /edmonton/feed.xml · /montreal/feed.xml |
City slugs: gatineau, ottawa, calgary, edmonton, montreal.