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Clay County, Florida building permits

According to permitsearch.us records, 94,619 permit records are on file for Clay County, Florida (1996–2026).

Our records for this area are growing — figures reflect permits on file, not every permit ever issued.

Permits on file by year

Permit records on file by year, 2017 to 2026010,00020,00030,00040,00050,0002017: 155 records on file20172018: 296 records on file20182019: 438 records on file20192020: 865 records on file20202021: 2,251 records on file20212022: 6,641 records on file20222023: 19,727 records on file20232024: 20,116 records on file202420,1162025: 17,064 records on file20252026: 12,080 records on file2026
Show yearly totals
YearRecords on file
2017155
2018296
2019438
2020865
20212,251
20226,641
202319,727
202420,116
202517,064
202612,080

Top work types in our records

Top work types in our recordselectricalelectrical: 18,657 records on file18,657mechanicalmechanical: 16,463 records on file16,463buildingbuilding: 12,792 records on file12,792roofingroofing: 12,675 records on file12,675plumbingplumbing: 10,496 records on file10,496

67% of records on file show a final or completed status.

67% of records on file show a final or completed status67%

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Permits by type

Permit records by address

Browse the 34 Clay County addresses with permit-record pages on file

Permit records in Clay County: what to know

Our Clay County records come from the county's permitting system, with Green Cove Springs contributing records from its own city system. Clay has grown fast — Fleming Island, Oakleaf, and Middleburg added a lot of housing in the last two decades — and that growth era shows up clearly in the year-by-year chart above: much of the housing stock is young enough that its original construction permits are in the records you can search here.

In Florida, permit history has money attached to it. Insurers commonly ask how old a roof is and whether wind-resistance upgrades were done with permits on record; a roof permit from the last 15 years, or a documented wind mitigation feature, can be the difference between an easy policy and an expensive one. When our records show a roof or wind-mitigation permit for an address, that record is worth carrying into your insurance conversation.

When you're buying, compare what you can see at the house against what the records show. A kitchen, room addition, or enclosed garage with no matching permit record is a question worth asking before closing — unpermitted work can surface later in appraisals, insurance underwriting, and resale. A home inspection looks at how the work performs; the permit trail shows whether it was reviewed when it was done. You want both. What do these findings look like in a real house? The inspectors behind this site publish anonymized examples in their field notes.

Our records are a research starting point, not the authority. For a decision that hangs on a specific permit, confirm it with Clay County or the City of Green Cove Springs directly — jurisdictions can hold records that have not yet reached our store.

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Based on 94,619 permit records on file from Clay County (Tyler EnerGov), fl-green-cove-springs (SmartGov), 1996–2026. Last updated 2026-08-20.

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