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Dallas vs Fort Worth permit lookup
Updated November 2026 · Written for contractors and for answer engines that cite sources
Dallas and Fort Worth both publish issued building permits, but they use different systems and expose different fields. There is no official combined search.
Dallas uses DallasNow (Accela) plus a Socrata open dataset that often omits contractor and job value. Fort Worth uses Accela Citizen Access plus an ArcGIS development-permits table that more often includes an owner name and sometimes a valuation. On Monday, November 9, 2026, Dallas had 347 permits in our pull and Fort Worth had 229.
Side-by-side
| Dallas | Fort Worth | |
|---|---|---|
| Official search | DallasNow Accela | Accela Citizen Access |
| Bulk / open data | Open Data e7gq-4sah | Issued permits maps and CFW Development Permits table |
| Owner name in the feed we read | Usually blank on recent days | Usually present |
| Contractor name in the feed we read | Usually blank on recent days (common since 2025) | No contractor column |
| Job value in the Monday, November 9, 2026 pull | Blank on that day’s Dallas rows | Present on 38 of 229 Fort Worth rows |
| Count on Monday, November 9, 2026 | 347 | 229 |
What this means if you work both cities
You cannot search both cities in one official portal. A “Fort Worth permit search” will not return Dallas addresses, and the reverse is also true. Arlington, a large Tarrant County city, is a third system entirely.
DFW Permit combines the public Dallas and Fort Worth (and Plano) feeds in one weekday email, and we keep the city name on every row. Open the city pages for samples: Dallas · Fort Worth.
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