How do I look up a building permit in Texas?

Building permits in Texas are public records filed with each city or county building department. PermitGrab tracks 12 Texas cities and republishes the records — pick your city below to browse permits by address, contractor, type and value, free.

Are building permits public record in Texas?

Yes. Building permits are public records in Texas. Cities publish them through open-data portals and permit systems; PermitGrab aggregates available official feeds and shows each market's source date.

How many building permits were filed in Texas recently?

Across the 12 Texas cities PermitGrab tracks, 5,164 permits were filed in the last 30 days, out of 65,654 on record.

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Texas Building Permit Lookup — Free

Building permits are public record. PermitGrab tracks 12 Texas cities with live data pulled from official city permit systems — browse by address, contractor, permit type and value. No signup needed to look.

65,654

Permits on record

5,164

Filed last 30 days

Cities covered

City	Last 30 days	On record	Newest permit	Status
Austin, TX	1,880	27,810	2026-09-21	this week
Collin County Tx, TX	894	23,210	2026-09-22	fresh — under 24h
Sugar Land, TX	616	7,736	2026-09-21	this week
Galveston, TX	551	1,349	2026-09-22	fresh — under 24h
Conroe, TX	385	1,305	2026-09-22	fresh — under 24h
Pharr, TX	327	975	2026-09-21	this week
Del Rio, TX	226	656	2026-09-22	fresh — under 24h
Brenham, TX	99	241	2026-09-22	fresh — under 24h
Mansfield, TX	74	290	2026-09-22	fresh — under 24h
Socorro, TX	73	197	2026-09-21	this week
Longview, TX	30	211	2026-09-22	fresh — under 24h
Melissa, TX	9	1,674	2026-09-02	this month

How to look up a building permit in Texas

Pick the city where the property sits — permits are filed with the local building department, not the state. Use the table above for any of the 12 Texas cities we cover.
Search by address or contractor. Each city page lists recent permits with the address, permit type, declared value, status and (where the city publishes it) the contractor of record.
Open a record to review the details that its public source provides. Available fields can include a project description, owner or applicant information, contractor details, and related permit history.

PermitGrab refreshes Texas permit data as official municipal sources publish it; the table shows the newest source date we hold for each city. If your city isn't listed, the building department may not publish a public data feed yet.

Contractors: turn these permits into leads.

Access current permit records in covered Texas markets, plus contractor, owner, and project fields where the public source provides them. Source dates and available fields vary by city.

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