Walton County, FL · Panhandle and Big Bend · Permit search guide
Walton County permit search and official portals.
Walton County Building Division issues building permits for unincorporated Walton County and the City of Freeport. This guide links each official permit search and explains how to look up a record.
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Guide reviewed Oct 19, 2026. Permit Press is an independent research service, not a government website.
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Step by step
How to search permits in Walton County.
Start with the office for the property's address. The official portal shows the permit's current status, inspections and documents.
Find the permitting authority
Walton County Building Division issues building permits for unincorporated Walton County and the City of Freeport. Confirm the address is in Walton County before you search.
Open the official permit search
Open Walton County CSS permit portal, which runs on Tyler EnerGov Self Service. Create an account, pay invoices, view scheduled inspections, and request a building permit search or lien search (fee invoiced through the portal).
Search by address or permit number
Search with the street address or the permit number where the portal offers those fields, then open the record for its status, inspections and documents.
Ask the office about older records
If a permit is missing online, ask Walton County Building Division (850-892-8160) how to request it. Older permits are not always in online systems.
Municipalities
Walton County cities
and their permits.
A city that runs its own building department issues permits inside its limits, and its records are in the city's portal, not the county's.
City of Freeport
Freeport Planning & Zoning reviews permit packets (7-10 business days), then the applicant submits the approval to the Walton County Building Department, which also issues the certificate of occupancy.
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Before you search
Walton County permits.
From the county's and cities' own pages, checked Oct 19, 2026. Each note links the page it comes from.
The Building Division is open 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
mywaltonfl.govThe Freeport location is temporarily closed, and building services are consolidated at the main DeFuniak Springs office.
mywaltonfl.govBuilding permit searches and lien searches are requested through the online portal, which invoices the fee.
mywaltonfl.govThe Office of the County Attorney is the custodian of county public records (publicrecords@co.walton.fl.us).
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