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Pool construction cost in Raleigh–Durham

Across 139 residential pools & spas permits issued in Raleigh–Durham between August 2026 and October 2026, the median declared value was $129,000. Half fell between $75,000 and $197,000.
Median
$129,000
Lower quartile
$75,000
Upper quartile
$197,000
Permits
139

Declared value is what the contractor reported to the building department, which is what the permit fee is calculated from. It is usually the contract value excluding tax, and it runs below a retail quote. Treat it as the floor of the market, not the price. Why the permit and the quote disagree.

What the spread looks like

Every valued permit in the window, grouped by declared value. The last bar holds everything above the 95th percentile, so one unusually large job does not flatten the rest.

$5002518% of permits
$37,938107% of permits
$75,3752317% of permits
$112,8122619% of permits
$150,2501612% of permits
$187,6882317% of permits
$225,12564% of permits
$262,56232% of permits
$300,000+75% of permits

Month by month

MonthPermits valuedMedian
August 202641$142,970
September 202649$140,000
October 202649$124,691

Complete calendar months only. The current month is left out until it ends.

Who pulled the most pools & spas permits in Raleigh–Durham

By permit count over the same window, out of the contractors the building departments name.

  1. 1MASTER POOLS BY GRESS INC6 (9.5%)
  2. 2OWNER (GENERAL)4 (6.3%)
  3. 3Carolina Custom Pools and Landscape, Inc4 (6.3%)
  4. 4CAROLINA CREATIONS RDU, INC3 (4.8%)
  5. 5Aquatic Artists Luxury Pools Inc3 (4.8%)
  6. 6Jim Hinson Pools, LLC2 (3.2%)
  7. 7SWIM SAFE POOLS2 (3.2%)
  8. 8Dean A. Schaeffer Landscape Construction, Inc. AKA2 (3.2%)
  9. 9BDL Construction Inc dba Premier Pools and Spas of2 (3.2%)
  10. 10Viridian Pools, LLC2 (3.2%)

Method

Permit Dawn reads the building departments in City of Raleigh and Town of Cary permits with contractor name and phone, plus Wake County permits for Apex, Garner, Wake Forest, Knightdale, Morrisville and Fuquay-Varina. every night and keeps every residential permit they publish. This page counts the pools & spas permits issued in August 2026, September 2026, October 2026 — 141 of them, 139 carrying a declared value (99%). Duplicates and permits a city later re-published are excluded, along with values below $500 and above $2,000,000, which are placeholders rather than jobs. Medians and quartiles, not averages: a handful of very large jobs would drag a mean somewhere no homeowner would recognise.