Massachusetts
Find your town’s building department
Phone, address, hours, the inspector and the online permit portal for 351 Massachusetts cities and towns, with the state rules on which home projects need a permit and who pulls it.
Contact details for every town, each checked against the town’s own website (latest check 2026-10-01).
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Every town, by county
Barnstable County 15 towns
Berkshire County 32 towns
Bristol County 20 towns
Dukes County 7 towns
Essex County 34 towns
- Amesbury2,574
- Andover1,559
- Beverly2,061
- Boxford315
- Danvers2,249
- Essex
- Georgetown95
- Gloucester1,437
- Groveland89
- Hamilton118
- Haverhill2,591
- Ipswich3,647
- Lawrence
- Lynn
- Lynnfield3,246
- Manchester-by-the-Sea523
- Marblehead
- Merrimac114
- Methuen1,492
- Middleton
- Nahant
- Newbury110
- Newburyport1,562
- North Andover1,434
- Peabody377
- Rockport
- Rowley67
- Salem1,188
- Salisbury
- Saugus
- Swampscott91
- Topsfield59
- Wenham85
- West Newbury76
Franklin County 26 towns
Hampden County 23 towns
Hampshire County 20 towns
Middlesex County 54 towns
- Acton1,967
- Arlington789
- Ashby
- Ashland2,724
- Ayer
- Bedford
- Belmont5,424
- Billerica9,481
- Boxborough
- Burlington
- Cambridge29,786
- Carlisle
- Chelmsford
- Concord6,239
- Dracut456
- Dunstable49
- Everett946
- Framingham3,703
- Groton78
- Holliston5,046
- Hopkinton63
- Hudson1,970
- Lexington2,007
- Lincoln1,210
- Littleton1,155
- Lowell
- Malden
- Marlborough
- Maynard
- Medford
- Melrose6,424
- Natick2,396
- Newton5,010
- North Reading4,630
- Pepperell737
- Reading3,217
- Sherborn1,630
- Shirley
- Somerville10,891
- Stoneham551
- Stow83
- Sudbury681
- Tewksbury1,697
- Townsend111
- Tyngsborough696
- Wakefield897
- Waltham
- Watertown1,703
- Wayland647
- Westford
- Weston3,774
- Wilmington
- Winchester115
- Woburn
Nantucket County 1 towns
Norfolk County 28 towns
Plymouth County 27 towns
Suffolk County 4 towns
Worcester County 60 towns
- Ashburnham
- Athol
- Auburn430
- Barre
- Berlin261
- Blackstone616
- Bolton462
- Boylston
- Brookfield
- Charlton
- Clinton4
- Douglas
- Dudley
- East Brookfield
- Fitchburg
- Gardner
- Grafton688
- Hardwick
- Harvard
- Holden4,008
- Hopedale1,204
- Hubbardston
- Lancaster
- Leicester
- Leominster
- Lunenburg
- Mendon
- Milford
- Millbury130
- Millville
- New Braintree
- North Brookfield
- Northborough1,163
- Northbridge
- Oakham
- Oxford
- Paxton
- Petersham
- Phillipston
- Princeton
- Royalston
- Rutland
- Shrewsbury
- Southborough657
- Southbridge
- Spencer
- Sterling
- Sturbridge
- Sutton
- Templeton
- Upton
- Uxbridge
- Warren
- Webster1,098
- West Boylston81
- West Brookfield
- Westborough
- Westminster
- Winchendon
- Worcester23,663
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