FLORIDA PERMIT DATA
What a declared job value does not tell you
Every value figure on this site comes from a form field. It is useful, and it is not a price.
Published October 2026 · Data through August 2026
FLORIDA PERMIT DATA
What this page is based on
Data through August 2026
- Matching records in our dataset
- 2,663,640
- Permit terms covered
- 398
The records come from a selected set of Florida jurisdictions with unequal coverage, and every number on this page is scoped to them. How we count.
Method
The field, not the contract
A permit application asks for the value of the job. Applicants fill that in themselves, sometimes as a contract sum, sometimes as an estimate, and sometimes as the value of the structure rather than the work.
It is a declared value, and this site calls it that everywhere it appears. Nothing in the records verifies it, and no page here treats it as a price.
- Declared job value, all matching permits
- $11,400
- Middle half of declared values
- $5,000–$28,000
- Permits with a declared value
- 4,104,338
Declared job value is the value shown on the permit application, not a contract price, and nothing in the records verifies it.
Why a middle value rather than an average
The declared values in the records include a long tail of very large numbers and a floor of values entered as a token amount. An average is pulled by both ends at once.
The middle of the distribution is stable against those extremes, so that is what is shown, with the middle half of the values next to it. Where there are too few declared values to support the comparison, the band is left off the page entirely rather than shown with a caveat.
What the number is good for
It is good for comparing one kind of work with another. A pool and a new house sit in different places in the same distribution whatever the individual forms said, and that ordering survives the noise.
It is not good for estimating your own project. A declared value is a single entry on a form, and the work behind it varies with the building it sits in.
- Median declared value, swimming pool
- $35,000
- Middle half $9,846–$65,200, n=97,940 permits with a declared value
- Median declared value, new construction
- $233,300
- Middle half $148,500–$320,876, n=49,721 permits with a declared value
Declared job value is the value shown on the permit application, not a contract price, and nothing in the records verifies it.
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