{
  "name": "Triangle crawl space conditions by community",
  "url": "https://raleighcrawlpros.com/data/triangle-crawl-space-conditions/",
  "license": {
    "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "summary": "Free to use, republish and build on, including commercially, as long as you credit the source and link back to the dataset page."
  },
  "attribution": "Raleigh Crawlspace Pros",
  "lastChecked": "2026-09-28",
  "summary": {
    "communities": 20,
    "counties": 6,
    "zips": 48,
    "withPermitOffice": 20,
    "conditionNotes": 78
  },
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      "description": "Community name as locals use it."
    },
    {
      "key": "state",
      "label": "State",
      "description": "Two-letter state abbreviation."
    },
    {
      "key": "county",
      "label": "County",
      "description": "County as the state records it."
    },
    {
      "key": "permit_office",
      "label": "Permitting office",
      "description": "The office that issues residential building permits for addresses in this community, which is where the application goes. Sometimes the county rather than the town. Where a town issues the permit but its county does the inspections under contract, the town is named and the name says who inspects."
    },
    {
      "key": "permit_office_url",
      "label": "Permitting office URL",
      "description": "Official page for that office, opened and confirmed on the review date."
    },
    {
      "key": "zip_count",
      "label": "ZIPs covered",
      "description": "How many ZIP codes this site covers in this community."
    },
    {
      "key": "zips",
      "label": "ZIP codes",
      "description": "The ZIP codes themselves, pipe-separated. Service coverage rather than postal boundaries."
    },
    {
      "key": "local_conditions_count",
      "label": "Local condition notes",
      "description": "How many researched, community-specific notes this site publishes about conditions bearing on a crawl space there."
    },
    {
      "key": "page_url",
      "label": "Page",
      "description": "Site-relative path to the page carrying the full notes for this community."
    }
  ],
  "limits": [
    "It contains no measurements. Nothing here was instrumented, sampled or surveyed.",
    "It contains no prices. The cost figures on this site are other publishers’ work and are cited on the cost pages rather than redistributed here.",
    "It contains no information about individual properties, and no personal data of any kind.",
    "Jurisdiction can change, particularly where a town contracts inspections out to its county. The check date is published with the data.",
    "Coverage is the twenty communities this site serves, which is not every community in the metro."
  ],
  "rows": [
    {
      "community": "Apex",
      "state": "NC",
      "county": "Wake County",
      "permit_office": "Town of Apex Building Inspections & Permits",
      "permit_office_url": "https://www.apexnc.org/183/Building-Inspections-Permits",
      "zip_count": 3,
      "zips": "27502|27523|27539",
      "local_conditions_count": 4,
      "page_url": "/areas/apex/"
    },
    {
      "community": "Carrboro",
      "state": "NC",
      "county": "Orange County",
      "permit_office": "Town of Carrboro Inspections Division",
      "permit_office_url": "https://www.carrboronc.gov/162/Inspections",
      "zip_count": 1,
      "zips": "27510",
      "local_conditions_count": 4,
      "page_url": "/areas/carrboro/"
    },
    {
      "community": "Cary",
      "state": "NC",
      "county": "Wake County",
      "permit_office": "Town of Cary Inspections & Permits",
      "permit_office_url": "https://www.carync.gov/services-publications/residential-permits-inspections",
      "zip_count": 4,
      "zips": "27511|27513|27518|27519",
      "local_conditions_count": 4,
      "page_url": "/areas/cary/"
    },
    {
      "community": "Chapel Hill",
      "state": "NC",
      "county": "Orange County",
      "permit_office": "Town of Chapel Hill Building Permits and Inspections",
      "permit_office_url": "https://www.chapelhillnc.gov/Business-and-Development/Building-Permits-and-Inspections",
      "zip_count": 3,
      "zips": "27514|27516|27517",
      "local_conditions_count": 4,
      "page_url": "/areas/chapel-hill/"
    },
    {
      "community": "Clayton",
      "state": "NC",
      "county": "Johnston County",
      "permit_office": "Town of Clayton Inspections",
      "permit_office_url": "https://www.townofclaytonnc.org/600/Inspections",
      "zip_count": 2,
      "zips": "27520|27527",
      "local_conditions_count": 4,
      "page_url": "/areas/clayton/"
    },
    {
      "community": "Durham",
      "state": "NC",
      "county": "Durham County",
      "permit_office": "Durham City-County Building & Safety",
      "permit_office_url": "https://www.durhamnc.gov/293/City-County-Building-Safety",
      "zip_count": 7,
      "zips": "27701|27703|27704|27705|27707|27712|27713",
      "local_conditions_count": 4,
      "page_url": "/areas/durham/"
    },
    {
      "community": "Fuquay-Varina",
      "state": "NC",
      "county": "Wake County",
      "permit_office": "Town of Fuquay-Varina Inspections Department",
      "permit_office_url": "https://www.fuquay-varina.org/229/Inspections-Department",
      "zip_count": 1,
      "zips": "27526",
      "local_conditions_count": 4,
      "page_url": "/areas/fuquay-varina/"
    },
    {
      "community": "Garner",
      "state": "NC",
      "county": "Wake County",
      "permit_office": "Town of Garner Inspections",
      "permit_office_url": "https://www.garnernc.gov/departments/inspections",
      "zip_count": 1,
      "zips": "27529",
      "local_conditions_count": 4,
      "page_url": "/areas/garner/"
    },
    {
      "community": "Hillsborough",
      "state": "NC",
      "county": "Orange County",
      "permit_office": "Orange County Building Inspections",
      "permit_office_url": "https://www.orangecountync.gov/3042/Building-Inspections",
      "zip_count": 1,
      "zips": "27278",
      "local_conditions_count": 4,
      "page_url": "/areas/hillsborough/"
    },
    {
      "community": "Holly Springs",
      "state": "NC",
      "county": "Wake County",
      "permit_office": "Town of Holly Springs Permits",
      "permit_office_url": "https://www.hollyspringsnc.gov/1064/Permits",
      "zip_count": 1,
      "zips": "27540",
      "local_conditions_count": 4,
      "page_url": "/areas/holly-springs/"
    },
    {
      "community": "Knightdale",
      "state": "NC",
      "county": "Wake County",
      "permit_office": "Town of Knightdale Development Services (Wake County does the inspections)",
      "permit_office_url": "https://www.knightdalenc.gov/development-services/permits-and-inspections/building-permits",
      "zip_count": 1,
      "zips": "27545",
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      "page_url": "/areas/knightdale/"
    },
    {
      "community": "Morrisville",
      "state": "NC",
      "county": "Wake County",
      "permit_office": "Town of Morrisville Inspections",
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      "zip_count": 1,
      "zips": "27560",
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    },
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      "community": "Pittsboro",
      "state": "NC",
      "county": "Chatham County",
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      "zip_count": 1,
      "zips": "27312",
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      "page_url": "/areas/pittsboro/"
    },
    {
      "community": "Raleigh",
      "state": "NC",
      "county": "Wake County",
      "permit_office": "City of Raleigh Inspections (Planning and Development)",
      "permit_office_url": "https://raleighnc.gov/planning-and-development/service-unit/inspections",
      "zip_count": 15,
      "zips": "27601|27603|27604|27605|27606|27607|27608|27609|27610|27612|27613|27614|27615|27616|27617",
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    },
    {
      "community": "Rolesville",
      "state": "NC",
      "county": "Wake County",
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      "permit_office_url": "https://www.rolesvillenc.gov/planning",
      "zip_count": 1,
      "zips": "27571",
      "local_conditions_count": 3,
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    },
    {
      "community": "Smithfield",
      "state": "NC",
      "county": "Johnston County",
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      "zip_count": 1,
      "zips": "27577",
      "local_conditions_count": 4,
      "page_url": "/areas/smithfield/"
    },
    {
      "community": "Wake Forest",
      "state": "NC",
      "county": "Wake County",
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      "permit_office_url": "https://www.wakeforestnc.gov/inspections",
      "zip_count": 1,
      "zips": "27587",
      "local_conditions_count": 4,
      "page_url": "/areas/wake-forest/"
    },
    {
      "community": "Wendell",
      "state": "NC",
      "county": "Wake County",
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      "permit_office_url": "https://townofwendellnc.gov/departments/planning/building_permits/index.php",
      "zip_count": 1,
      "zips": "27591",
      "local_conditions_count": 4,
      "page_url": "/areas/wendell/"
    },
    {
      "community": "Youngsville",
      "state": "NC",
      "county": "Franklin County",
      "permit_office": "Franklin County Planning & Inspections",
      "permit_office_url": "https://www.franklincountync.gov/258/Inspections",
      "zip_count": 1,
      "zips": "27596",
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    },
    {
      "community": "Zebulon",
      "state": "NC",
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      "permit_office_url": "https://www.wake.gov/departments-government/permits-and-inspections/permits-and-inspections-faq",
      "zip_count": 1,
      "zips": "27597",
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      "page_url": "/areas/zebulon/"
    }
  ]
}