Edition 1, published Oct 23, 2026, by PermitScope. Reporting period: Sep 23 to Oct 22, 2026, the latest 30-day cycle from the City of Austin issued-permit records.
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Austin issued permits that group into 3,064 distinct projects this cycle, from 3,896 active permit records. A project is one site with one scope of work; 517 of these projects carry more than one permit record (a building permit plus its electrical, plumbing, or mechanical companions, for example).
Residential: 2,288 projects. Commercial: 776 projects.
875 projects name a general contractor of record (our Class A). 1,946 projects are trade-led or applicant-led with no GC of record (Class B). 243 projects name no party at all and sit on our watchlist (Class C).
Only 148 of the 3,064 projects state a job valuation of $500 or more on the record. The rest state no usable value, so this brief prints a dollar figure only where the record itself states one.
The busiest ZIP codes by project count: 78744 (218 projects), 78704 (192), 78745 (167), 78731 (156), 78757 (149), and 78747 (135).
Commercial work skews to remodels: 320 commercial remodel projects against 144 commercial new builds, plus 116 commercial equipment change outs.
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Ranked by the stated valuation on the city record, one entry per site. A note on values: the city prints the whole project’s stated value on each component record at a site, so the same figure can appear on several records for one project. We list each site once and never add stated values together.
Source: City of Austin permit record | City of Austin Open Data, Issued Construction Permits (3syk-w9eu)
Four project records at this site carry the same stated value.
Source: City of Austin permit record | City of Austin Open Data, Issued Construction Permits (3syk-w9eu)
Six project records at this site carry the same stated value, covering component structures such as a covered field building, a utility building, and a shade structure.
Source: City of Austin permit record | City of Austin Open Data, Issued Construction Permits (3syk-w9eu)
A companion record at the site covers a 60,527 sq ft parking garage at the same stated value, and first-time finish-out records for individual floors followed during the cycle.
Source: City of Austin permit record | City of Austin Open Data, Issued Construction Permits (3syk-w9eu)
Source: City of Austin permit record | City of Austin Open Data, Issued Construction Permits (3syk-w9eu)
Source: City of Austin permit record | City of Austin Open Data, Issued Construction Permits (3syk-w9eu)
Source: City of Austin permit record | City of Austin Open Data, Issued Construction Permits (3syk-w9eu)
Source: City of Austin permit record | City of Austin Open Data, Issued Construction Permits (3syk-w9eu)
Residential work is the bulk of the cycle: 2,288 projects. By work type as recorded:
New construction: 710 projects. Repairs: 473 projects. Equipment change outs: 349 projects. Additions and remodels: 225 projects (221 filed as Addition and Remodel, 3 as Remodel, 1 as Addition). Pools: 135 projects carry a pool in the matched scope, across work types; every one of them is listed on our Austin pool permit tracker. The remainder is auxiliary power (184), irrigation (136), upgrades (110), demolition (49), and smaller categories.
Three records that show the range:
Source: City of Austin permit record | City of Austin Open Data, Issued Construction Permits (3syk-w9eu)
Source: City of Austin permit record | City of Austin Open Data, Issued Construction Permits (3syk-w9eu)
Source: City of Austin permit record | City of Austin Open Data, Issued Construction Permits (3syk-w9eu)
PermitScope maps each project’s documented scope to the trades that kind of work usually involves. These trade assignments are inference from the scope text, not a statement in the record, and not a claim that any scope is unfilled. Counts below are projects where the trade is implied. Examples repeat where one well-documented project legitimately spans many trades; the counts are the point, and every count can be checked against the linked records.
| Trade (inferred) | Projects | One example project |
|---|---|---|
| Framing | 762 | 1801 S 1st St, commercial addition and remodel, Sharpebuild LLC, record |
| Roofing | 748 | 1801 S 1st St, commercial addition and remodel, Sharpebuild LLC, record |
| Stucco & Siding | 748 | 1801 S 1st St, commercial addition and remodel, Sharpebuild LLC, record |
| Excavation | 629 | 4330 N Lamar Blvd, commercial new build, Austin Canyon Corporation, record |
| Tile | 594 | 10900 Centennial Trl Unit B, residential new build, Stuart Home Corporation, record |
| Landscaping | 575 | 4330 N Lamar Blvd, commercial new build, Austin Canyon Corporation, record |
| Drywall | 487 | 1801 S 1st St, commercial addition and remodel, Sharpebuild LLC, record |
| Painting | 487 | 1801 S 1st St, commercial addition and remodel, Sharpebuild LLC, record |
| Concrete | 478 | 1801 S 1st St, commercial addition and remodel, Sharpebuild LLC, record |
| Concrete & Foundation | 432 | 4330 N Lamar Blvd, commercial new build, Austin Canyon Corporation, record |
| Plumbing Fixtures | 308 | 10900 Centennial Trl Unit B, residential new build, Stuart Home Corporation, record |
| Electrical | 258 | 10900 Centennial Trl Unit B, residential new build, Stuart Home Corporation, record |
| Flooring | 171 | 601 W 2nd St Bldg Flr17, commercial remodel, Swinerton Builders Inc., record |
| Pool Plaster | 143 | 6525 Ed Bluestein Blvd NB, commercial new pool project, Cody Pools, Inc., record |
| Glass & Shower Enclosures | 130 | 108 W Skyview Rd, residential addition and remodel, RC Home Renovations LLC., record |
| Countertops & Stone | 107 | 10900 Centennial Trl Unit B, residential new build, Stuart Home Corporation, record |
| Cabinets | 101 | 10900 Centennial Trl Unit B, residential new build, Stuart Home Corporation, record |
| Custom Doors | 94 | 7204 Eagle Rose Rd, residential new build, Brookfield Residential Texas Homes LLC, record |
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875 projects name a general contractor or builder of record. The firms named most often this cycle, counted by projects where the firm is the GC of record:
| Firm (as recorded) | Projects |
|---|---|
| Clark Wilson Builders INC. | 35 |
| OHT Construction LLC | 26 |
| Joseph Design Build | 24 |
| GL Hunt Foundation Repair | 20 |
| Renewal by Andersen | 19 |
| We Level It {formally Centex House Leveling } | 19 |
| PWD-Austin, LLC (d/b/a or registered trade name) Pella Windows & Doors of Austin | 16 |
| Hentana Construction LLC | 14 |
| Paradisa Homes, LLC | 13 |
| Douglas Foundation Repair | 12 |
The mix matches the cycle: with 473 residential repair projects and 349 change outs on the books, foundation repair and window firms show up often because that is the work being permitted, alongside production and custom home builders.
How this brief is built. Source: the City of Austin Open Data portal, Issued Construction Permits dataset, at data.austintexas.gov. We fetched 4,690 records for the period, set aside 794 records whose status was not Active (769 Final, the rest expired, withdrawn, void, or on hold), and kept the 3,896 Active permits. Permits that belong to one project at one site were merged: 832 duplicate records were absorbed, leaving 3,064 projects. Valuations print only where the record states one of $500 or more; Austin records also carry $1 placeholder values, which are never shown as dollars. Where projects at one site share a stated value, the site is listed once.
What a permit does and does not mean. A permit documents that specific work was authorized at an address and names the parties on the record. It does not say that any scope of work is unfilled, available, or still open to bid, and nothing in this brief claims exclusivity or availability for any project. Trade assignments are inference from scope text and are labeled as inference. Named parties are business parties printed on public records. Figures were reconciled against the source dataset before publication.
New to reading permit records? Our guide on how subcontractors use permit data walks through this method step by step, with real Austin examples.
All figures come from the verified Austin dataset (the PermitScope qualification engine output for this cycle), computed into a data file saved with this brief:
Project and permit totals: count of grouped projects, and the sum of each project’s permit count. Lead classes and segments: counts of the values the engine recorded on each project. Totals reconcile with the engine’s reconciliation file (4,690 fetched, 3,896 permits in projects, 3,064 projects, 832 absorbed).
Notable commercial: commercial projects with a stated valuation of $500 or more and no conflicting valuation fields, sorted by stated value, one entry per site address.
Residential counts: counts of the recorded work-type field within residential projects. Pool count: residential projects whose matched scope includes a pool, any work type.
Trade counts: count of projects whose implied-trades list contains the trade. Implied trades are the engine’s inference from scope text.
Firm counts: count of projects per GC-of-record field, grouped after removing the city’s asterisked MAIN folder markers from names, display cleanup only.
Examples: chosen deterministically, highest record confidence first, then most recent issued date.
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