2025 permits
Toronto building permits from 2025: 20,487 are still open
Of the building permits Toronto issued in 2025, 20,487 remained in the City’s active permit register as of Oct 18, 2026, and half of them have been open for at least 450 days (about 1 year).
This is not annual permit volume. The 2025 figures on this page count permits that are still openin the City of Toronto’s active permit register today. Permits drop out of that register once they close, so older years show fewer surviving records the further back you go. Toronto issues roughly 40,000 permits a year; the counts here are the unclosed remainder, and they cannot be compared between years as a trend.
Still open
20,487
Median time open
450 d
Median value
$100,000
Total value
$11,937,847,184
Value figures cover the 7,705 of 20,487 still-open 2025 permits that disclose an estimated construction cost. Medians, not averages: the cost distribution has a long tail and an average would overstate the typical permit.
What stage the 2025 permits are at
5,516 of them (26.9%) show no sign of work having begun: the permit was issued and the file has not moved past that point.
| Status | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Inspection | 12,311 | 60.1% |
| Permit Issued | 5,437 | 26.5% |
| Revision Issued | 2,600 | 12.7% |
| Work Not Started | 71 | 0.3% |
| Revocation Pending | 55 | 0.3% |
| Ready for Issuance | 8 | 0.0% |
| Request Received | 1 | 0.0% |
| Extension Granted | 1 | 0.0% |
| Application On Hold | 1 | 0.0% |
| Response Received | 1 | 0.0% |
| Under Review | 1 | 0.0% |
Still-open 2025 permits by trade
| Trade | Permits | Total value |
|---|---|---|
| Plumbing | 4,500 | $604,418,040 |
| Addition | 3,741 | $672,845,917 |
| HVAC | 2,705 | $598,603,207 |
| Interior alteration | 2,650 | $1,700,954,423 |
| New build | 2,483 | $7,145,865,898 |
| Other / unclassified | 1,267 | $85,616,844 |
| Demolition | 1,074 | $312,897,201 |
| Deck | 1,032 | $124,255,611 |
| Window / Door | 448 | $35,404,472 |
| Roofing | 365 | $143,815,946 |
| Pool | 165 | $457,405,000 |
| Electrical | 57 | $55,764,625 |
Neighbourhoods with the most open 2025 permits
| Rank | Neighbourhood | Open permits | Total value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yonge-Bay Corridor | 549 | $280,598,610 |
| 2 | Annex | 493 | $725,630,165 |
| 3 | Banbury-Don Mills | 468 | $56,010,278 |
| 4 | Rosedale-Moore Park | 359 | $76,439,070 |
| 5 | South Riverdale | 350 | $378,224,854 |
| 6 | Englemount-Lawrence | 340 | $103,200,217 |
| 7 | Stonegate-Queensway | 336 | $308,547,352 |
| 8 | Edenbridge-Humber Valley | 316 | $63,318,924 |
| 9 | St Lawrence-East Bayfront-The Islands | 298 | $889,597,515 |
| 10 | West Humber-Clairville | 287 | $161,787,906 |
| 11 | Birchcliffe-Cliffside | 283 | $90,787,211 |
| 12 | High Park-Swansea | 272 | $103,420,785 |
| 13 | Bedford Park-Nortown | 265 | $48,383,502 |
| 14 | Trinity-Bellwoods | 242 | $19,501,500 |
| 15 | Kensington-Chinatown | 228 | $559,783,864 |
| 16 | Mimico-Queensway | 225 | $52,868,175 |
| 17 | Oakwood Village | 225 | $20,041,000 |
| 18 | Willowdale West | 224 | $18,339,000 |
| 19 | Clairlea-Birchmount | 223 | $40,423,127 |
| 20 | Alderwood | 223 | $28,344,000 |
Top 20 neighbourhoods by open-permit count. Areas outside this list still have open 2025 permits.
Largest 2025 projects still open
The highest-value permits from 2025 that have not closed out, ranked by estimated construction cost.
| Address | Work | Status | Open | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 Cumberland St, Toronto, ON | New Building | Revision Issued | 353 d | $440,000,000 |
| 3741-3751 Bloor St W, Toronto, ON | New Building | Inspection | 536 d | $400,000,000 |
| 266 King St W, Toronto, ON | New Building | Inspection | 566 d | $230,000,000 |
| 1 Delisle Ave, Toronto, ON | New Building | Inspection | 398 d | $200,000,000 |
| 325 Gerrard St E, Toronto, ON | Shoring | Inspection | 324 d | $200,000,000 |
| 1555 Queen St E, Toronto, ON | New Building | Inspection | 543 d | $190,000,000 |
| 1245 Dupont St, Toronto, ON | New Building | Inspection | 311 d | $190,000,000 |
| 25 St Dennis Dr, Toronto, ON | New Building | Inspection | 550 d | $185,000,000 |
| 446 Lakeshore Ave, Toronto, ON | New Building | Permit Issued | 373 d | $185,000,000 |
| 6 Tippett Rd, Toronto, ON | New Building | Inspection | 444 d | $176,636,000 |
| 162 Queens Quay E, Toronto, ON | New Building | Inspection | 444 d | $170,000,000 |
| 1001 Queen St W, Toronto, ON | New Building | Inspection | 367 d | $159,000,000 |
| 399 Bathurst St, Toronto, ON | New Building | Inspection | 424 d | $152,310,000 |
| 63 Montclair Ave, Toronto, ON | New Building | Inspection | 460 d | $150,000,000 |
| 30 Merton St, Toronto, ON | New Building | Inspection | 377 d | $150,000,000 |
| 9 Leslie St, Toronto, ON | New Building | Permit Issued | 324 d | $143,626,807 |
| 2490-2504 Yonge St, Toronto, ON | New Building | Inspection | 599 d | $142,242,800 |
| 801 The Queensway, Toronto, ON | Inside and Outside Drains | Inspection | 503 d | $140,000,000 |
| 5251 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON | New Building | Inspection | 523 d | $132,915,000 |
| 55 Eastern Ave, Toronto, ON | New Building | Inspection | 507 d | $120,000,000 |
| 1156 The Queensway, Toronto, ON | New Building | Inspection | 291 d | $118,000,000 |
| 80 Scottfield Dr, Toronto, ON | New Building | Inspection | 402 d | $110,000,000 |
| 3450 Dufferin St, Toronto, ON | New Building | Permit Issued | 443 d | $107,056,000 |
| 386-394 Symington Ave, Toronto, ON | New Building | Inspection | 528 d | $105,000,000 |
| 628 Church St, Toronto, ON | New Building | Revision Issued | 555 d | $101,000,000 |
“Open” counts days from issue date to Oct 18, 2026. A permit remaining open does not by itself mean a project is abandoned; the City closes permits on final inspection, and some long-running projects are still legitimately active.
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Frequently asked questions
- How many Toronto building permits from 2025 are still open?
- 20,487 permits issued in Toronto during 2025 were still in the City's active permit register as of Oct 18, 2026. This is the count of permits that have not closed out, not the number of permits Toronto issued in 2025. The City issues roughly 40,000 permits a year, and closed permits are removed from the published file.
- How long have Toronto's 2025 permits been open?
- Half of the 20,487 still-open permits from 2025 have been open for at least 450 days (about 1 year), measured from issue date to Oct 18, 2026. One in ten has been open longer than 605 days (about 1 year). These are permits the City has not closed out, which can mean a long-running project, a stalled one, or one that was finished without being signed off.
- How many 2025 Toronto permits were never started?
- 5,516 of the 20,487 surviving 2025 permits (26.9%) sit at a status indicating work has not visibly begun, such as "Permit Issued" or "Work Not Started". The approval was granted and the file shows no progression past it. The remainder are at inspection or revision stages.
- Can I compare 2025 to other years?
- No. Each year's count reflects how long its permits have had to close, so an older year showing fewer permits means more of them closed, not that less was built. Comparing 2025 to another year measures elapsed time rather than construction activity. Use the status and trade breakdowns within 2025 instead.