ABC license applications

New alcohol license applications filed with the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, cut by county and sent weekly. Each row carries the report date, the license type and what ABC calls it, whether it is one of the four on-sale types the file marks, the action code, the applicant business, the premises address, the city, the county, the ZIP and the status.

The Public Record Feeds ABC dataset holds 2,459 applications on ABC's statewide daily new applications reports dated 6 July 2026 to 1 November 2026, counted before the privacy filter, and 1,190 of them are for license types 41, 42, 47 and 48, four of ABC's on-sale license types. A subscriber's weekly file is one county's share of one week of reports, after the privacy filter.

What you get

• Geography: one county.
• Columns: report date, license type, license type description, on sale, application type, applicant business, premises address, city, county, ZIP, status. Nothing else.
• Every row is a business record. We drop rows where the business name looks like a person, unless CSLB lists the license as a corporation or an LLC, or ABC lists a trading name that differs from the owner's name. We blank email addresses and phone numbers in every column except the business phone column, and check the policy number column for email addresses only. We blank a law firm entry that reads as a person, but a firm named for a lawyer keeps the lawyer's name.
• Source: California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, new applications report.
• ABC publishes a report on business days and on some weekends. The feed collects the week and sends it on Monday.
• Four on-sale types are marked: 41 and 47 are eating places, 42 and 48 are public premises, and those four are a restaurant or a bar opening or changing hands. The other types on the report, among them wholesalers, importers, winegrowers, caterers, off-sale shops and ABC's other on-sale types, are in the file as well, marked no.
• The application type is ABC's own code. ORI is a new license, and PER moves an existing one to a new person. PRM and PER/PRM also appear; ABC's License Lookup glossary does not define them.
• The applicant is the trading name where the applicant filed one, and the business name where it did not. ABC records the applicant as a primary owner, and the file leaves out any application listed under its primary owner's name, because it has no trading name or its trading name is the owner's name, when that name reads as a person's name or as the names of two or more people.
• The email carries the CSV as an attachment and a download link that works for fourteen days.

Preview

These rows are Los Angeles County. Every county is cut the same way.

200 rows of applications ABC reported between 6 August 2026 and 2 October 2026, all at least 30 days old. Subscribers receive the week that just closed, every Monday, with the full premises address.

10 rows, rebuilt 2 November 2026. 11 columns, so scroll the table sideways for the rest of them.

Applicant, ZIP and Premises are shortened here and arrive in full in the email.

Download the sample CSV

200 rows of applications ABC reported between 6 August 2026 and 2 October 2026, all at least 30 days old. Subscribers receive the week that just closed, every Monday, with the full premises address.

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More about this feed

• Counts and tables: application counts by month, county and type.
• Questions answered: one county's applications from ABC's report, applications counted each month.
• Related terms: ABC application types, on sale and off sale.