Which street in Charleston has pulled the most building permits?
King St — 2,185 permits in the city's published records.
Building permits published by the City of Charleston and the Town of Summerville. Counts of permit records, grouped by the street on the permit.. As of 2026-08-07.
The series, with its holes shown.
| Year | Amount |
|---|---|
| King St | 2,185 |
| Meeting St | 1,133 |
| Rutledge Ave | 695 |
| Savannah Hwy | 631 |
| Broad St | 525 |
| E Bay St | 520 |
Other jurisdictions is not in this series. only City of Charleston and Summerville permit publications are indexed; other towns' permits are not in this count. It is absent rather than estimated.
Permits with no street stated is not in this series. a large block of records name no parseable street and are excluded from the street ranking rather than mis-assigned. It is absent rather than estimated.
The counting rule, so you can disagree with it.
Every permit record whose address names this street, counted once. Coverage is these two jurisdictions' publications only — absence from the count is not absence of permits elsewhere.
Every figure here came from these documents.
- City of Charleston permit publications pulled 2026-08-07
Source: LocalGovData, as of 2026-08-08. Figures are aggregate. We do not publish payroll, or anything else, attached to a named individual.
This is one answer. There are a few hundred thousand more.
Everything above was read from documents the county already publishes — budgets, minutes, permits, votes — and tied together so a plain question gets a plain answer. Free accounts get 15 questions a month.