Texas building permits issued
Monthly permits for new privately-owned residential construction in the Texas jurisdictions PermitBase covers — housing units authorized, buildings, and construction valuation. This is Census survey data on new-home construction, not total permit volume (commercial permits and remodels are not counted).
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey (BPS) · data through 2026-08
State summary
State building-activity summary
- Latest month (2026-08)
- 3,266 units
- Year to date
- 27,529 units
- Coverage
- 6 jurisdictions
$901.1M valuation latest month · $5,112M valuation year to date · 5 of 6 jurisdictions reported the latest month. Sum of covered PermitBase jurisdictions only (not a full-state total). County-level jurisdictions overlapping covered cities are excluded to avoid double counting. Non-reporting jurisdictions are omitted from sums, never zero-filled.
Monthly trend
Units authorized per month across the jurisdictions PermitBase covers. Months reported by only some offices are marked, because a partially-reported month is not a quieter month.
Permits by jurisdiction
Housing units authorized for new residential construction. Ranked by trailing-12-month units; jurisdictions that did not report to the Census Bureau show “no data reported” — never assumed to be zero.
| # | Jurisdiction | Latest month units | Trailing 12 mo units | YTD units |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fort Worth | 536 | 11,736 | 8,795 |
| 2 | Houston | 964 | 11,560 | 6,893 |
| 3 | Austin | 885 | 8,086 | 4,381 |
| 4 | Dallas | 590 | 5,537(10 mo) | 4,245 |
| 5 | San Antonio | 291 | 4,269 | 3,215 |
| — | El Paso | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
County-wide rows join the Census county file and include every permit office in that county (incorporated cities included); their published estimates may include Census imputation for non-reporting offices. Every figure on this page traces to a specific Census BPS source file — see the PermitBase activity dataset manifest.
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