Texas Building Permit Search by City
407,692 issued building permits across 4 Texas cities. Pick a city to search its permits by address, contractor, or scope of work.
Covered issuing jurisdictions
Compare the covered permit markets
Counts cover permits in the jurisdictions listed here. Cities differ in available history, permit definitions, and coverage, so this is not a ranking of current construction growth.
Austin
153,315 of 407,692 recorded permits
Austin · Rank 1
Travis County · 14,308 permits issued in the last 90 days
Cities with permit coverage
Why is my city not listed?
Building permits are published by each permitting jurisdiction, not by the state, so every city has to be ingested separately from its own open-data portal. Only cities whose permit data Zabalist actually holds are listed here — a page promising permits it cannot show helps nobody. Construction activity in cities without permit coverage still appears in TDLR project filings and the contractor directory.