Residential Demolition
Single-family teardowns + accessory-structure demolition.
179K permits classified across 25 metros
Browse residential demolition permits in Los Angeles →What it covers
Residential demolition permits cover teardowns of single-family homes and accessory structures (garages, sheds, accessory buildings). Often a leading indicator of upcoming Residential New (Single-Family) filings at the same parcel — a classic teardown-rebuild signal.
How a permit lands in Residential Demolition.
Every silver permit flows through a two-stage classifier. The deterministic stage maps the structured signals — work_class, the normalized permit type, and the building sub-type — into the segment vocabulary where the mapping is unambiguous. The machine-learning stage handles the cases that aren't direct lookups: multi-vocab permit-type strings, ambiguous occupancy spans, and jurisdictions that bundle categories. The segment is the classifier's output, the same axis across every metro — so residential_demolition means the same thing in NYC as in LA even though the upstream jurisdictions emit completely different raw permit-type strings.
When the signal genuinely isn't there, we say so. A row with no assignable segment degrades honestly — to its work-nature, then to its raw source type, and only to “Unclassified” when truly nothing is known. We never guess a segment to fill a gap; an honest Unclassified is the floor, and field-level data-quality flags surface when the classifier had low confidence. That restraint is the point — the classification is only worth selling on if the “don't know” is honest.
Residential Demolition by metro — where it’s moving
Where residential demolition permits are classified today, ranked by volume — with each metro’s momentum (the last 90 days vs the prior 90) so you can see where the segment is heating up in your territory. Momentum shows only where we have enough filings to stand behind it. Metros with recent activity link straight into the live browse.
-4% vs prior 90d
- Los Angeles →-9%42K
- New York City →+33%21K
- Austin →+1%17K
- Baltimore →-4%17K
- Seattle →+16%13K
- Denver →+53%9,740
- Cleveland9,641
- Boston →-36%6,887
- Portland →+55%6,506
- Charlotte4,829
- Philadelphia →+17%3,346
- Columbus →-21%3,339
- San Francisco →-78%3,242
- Raleigh3,196
- Phoenix →-42%3,148
- Washington, DC →0%3,130
- Cincinnati →-7%2,681
- Miami →+3%2,229
- Norfolk →+19%1,602
- Orlando →+13%1,193
- Atlanta →+6%1,078
- Pittsburgh →+145%1,003
- Louisville →+227%267
- Memphis →+100%66
- Sacramento-10%50
Recent residential demolition permits
Real permits classified into Residential Demolition in the last 30 days.
- 2204 Bahia CirDemolition—2026-08-27Austin
- 2713 Mountain Laurel LnDemolition—2026-08-27Austin
- 2713 Mountain Laurel LnDemolition—2026-08-27Austin
- 1403 Beckett StDemolition—2026-08-27Austin
- 1709 Manana StDemolition—2026-08-27Austin
- 841-843 E Fourth StDemolition$35K2026-08-27Boston
Who tracks Residential Demolition.
Residential Demolition is a sales-intelligence segment for manufacturers and distributors selling into residential remodels and new homes. Filter it by metro, rank the contractors pulling these permits, and see the projects worth selling into — the same way across every covered market.