Austin, TX Permit Pulse — Week of 2026-07-27

1115 new building permits were filed in Austin, TX over the trailing 7 days, with $6,031,915 in declared construction value. Filing volume is the clearest public signal of how busy — or backed up — a city's building department is right now. Live data from official municipal permit-issuance feeds.

By Marcus Reeves · Updated 2026-07-27 · Last permit logged 2026-07-26

Permits filed · this week

1,115

▼ 7.4% vs prior 7 days

Declared construction value

$6,031,915

$194,577 avg per permit

Prior 7-day comparison

1,204

permits filed previous week

Austin permit review backlog

Of 21,234 Austin permits with a published review status, 4 (0.0%) are still in the review or intake queue — the live backlog. Breakdown by current status:

Permit statusPermitsShare
Active14,85369.9%
Final6,28329.6%
Withdrawn440.2%
Inactive Pending Revision200.1%
VOID170.1%
On Hold70.0%
Cancelled - Contractor Required40.0%
Pending40.0%

Is the Austin building department backed up?

Permit-filing volume is the best public proxy for permitting load: the more permits a building department takes in, the heavier its review queue. Austin, TX logged 1,115 permits in the last 7 days versus 1,204 the week before — a 7.4% decrease, so intake is easing. This tracker refreshes weekly from official municipal feeds, so it reflects the current pace rather than a stale snapshot.

Top contractors this week

#ContractorPermits (7d)Declared value
1 Acadian Group 41 $2,200,000
2 IES Residential, Inc. 25
3 Texas Multifamily Solution, LLC 20
4 Radiant Plumbing and Air Conditioning 19
5 Stan's Heating, Air, Plumbing, & Electrical 16

What's being built this week

Permit typeCountShare
Electrical Permit 298 26.7%
Building Permit 282 25.3%
Plumbing Permit 281 25.2%
Mechanical Permit 228 20.4%
Driveway / Sidewalks 26 2.3%

Recent permit filings

DateTypeAddressContractorValue
2026-07-26 Plumbing Permit 1109 FIELDCREST DR Praxis Plumbing
2026-07-26 Plumbing Permit 3006 FRUTH ST BLDG 1 Loredos Plumbing
2026-07-26 Plumbing Permit 605 SUNDIAL CV Ultimate Plumber LLC
2026-07-26 Plumbing Permit 8001 CIRCUIT OF THE AMERICAS BLVD UNIT 902 General Plumbing Services
2026-07-26 Plumbing Permit 2206 WHITE HORSE TRL Art G Plumbing
Methodology. Data sourced from Austin's official municipal permit-issuance feed and refreshed daily. Permits are counted by issue date. Declared construction value reflects what the applicant declared on the permit application and is filtered to remove obvious data-entry errors (values under $1,000 or above $50M are excluded from totals). "This week" means the trailing 7 days through 2026-07-27.

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