How long does a sign permit take in New Orleans?
Typically 42 days. That is the median across 383 sign permits New Orleans has issued since 2025-01-01 — but one in ten took 191 days or longer.
That puts New Orleans 14 th fastest of the 15 cities measured. Seattle issues permits in the same day; Los Angeles takes 50 days.
Busiest sign contractors in New Orleans
By number of sign permits pulled since 2025-01-01.
- 1. A-1 Signs Inc 36
- 2. Pro Signs & Graphics 28
- 3. Quattro Graphics, LLC 26
- 4. OPA Graphics 17
- 5. NOLA Sign Shop LLC 16
- 6. Signworx LLC dba Signworx 14
- 7. Opa Signs and Graphics 11
- 8. Signworx LLC 10
- 9. Alternative Signs & Graphics LLC 8
- 10. Mystic Blue Signs 8
Common questions
- How long does a sign permit take in New Orleans?
- A median of 42 days, measured across 383 sign permits issued since 2025-01-01. One in ten took 191 days or longer, so allow for that on a fixed deadline.
- How much does a sign permit cost in New Orleans?
- The median permit fee was $305 across 384 permits.
Where this comes from
New Orleans's own permit records, published as open data. We filter to sign permits using the city's permit-type values and measure the gap between the application and issue dates on each record. Medians rather than averages, because a few multi-year permits drag a mean somewhere useless.
Part of this wait belongs to the applicant. A permit can be approved and then sit unissued until its fees are paid, and the slowest records are typically ones where the city asked for revisions and got no reply — so read this as how long the whole process takes, not as how fast the office works.
This describes what the city did, not what it promises. A permit filed today may move faster or slower.
Source dataset · 385 records · computed 2026-08-02
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