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the austin area · housing pipeline

where the austin area is permitting new homes

every city and county in the austin area: how many new homes each permitted in the last 12 months, and whether it is rising or falling. zip-code detail wherever a city or county publishes its permits.

the same map for other places: austin (city only) · dallas-fort worth · greater houston · greater san antonio.

a permit is not a home. a building permit means a city or county has approved construction to start. it is not a finished home, and some permitted homes are never built. read every number here as "homes the city said yes to". the map has two layers: cities and counties covers every one of them, from the census bureau's monthly permit survey; zip codes covers only the places that publish their permits one by one. where a place publishes nothing, the zip view says so with a hatched area, not a blank. an appraisal records view, where there is one, shows houses by the year the appraisal district says they were built: records of houses, not permits, kept apart.

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rising most

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homes permitted, by month

single-family homeshomes in buildings of two or more (duplexes to apartments)tap or hover a month

every month as a table

where the zip-code detail comes from

how long from application to permit

this page does not measure review time. where a city's records carry a filing date, the timing pages do: how long a permit takes in austin · how long a new-home permit takes in fort worth.