Austin Housing Market Monitor

Overview

A running census of new residential construction in the City of Austin's full-purpose jurisdiction, 2016–2026. It pairs the City of Austin permit system (updated daily: what was permitted) with the Travis Central Appraisal District roll (certified annually: what was built). Use the toggle at the top right to switch between the last 12 months and the full window.

Where the market stands

Homes permitted, 12 mo6,485vs 8,583 the year before

Year on year-24%trailing 12 vs previous 12

Multifamily share75%of homes permitted

Permits issued1,802new dwelling permits

Austin issued permits for 6,485 new homes in the twelve months to October 2026, against 8,583 the year before — -24%. Multifamily is 75% of that.

Production

Homes permitted

New dwelling permits issued inside the full-purpose jurisdiction. Demolitions, relocations, remodels and additions are excluded, as are permits whose authorisation was later withdrawn or voided. High-rise towers permitted as shell buildings are counted, sized from their residential finish-out permits. 2026 is a partial year: the by-year figures run through October 2026 only.

Homes permitted

by month · Nov 2026 in progress, excluded

Multifamily Single family

The numbers

Month	Permits	Homes	Single family	Multifamily
Nov 2025	86	89	77	12
Dec 2025	147	866	122	744
Jan 2026	145	158	138	20
Feb 2026	120	327	113	214
Mar 2026	156	360	152	208
Apr 2026	156	164	145	19
May 2026	156	767	125	642
Jun 2026	183	355	157	198
Jul 2026	184	833	163	670
Aug 2026	150	1,128	132	996
Sep 2026	122	514	108	406
Oct 2026	197	924	166	758

Year	Permits	Homes	Single family	Multifamily
2016	3,694	9,820	3,336	6,484
2017	4,125	10,055	3,812	6,243
2018	4,077	11,188	3,646	7,542
2019	4,213	16,759	3,714	13,045
2020	3,550	18,509	3,113	15,396
2021	3,363	16,883	3,038	13,845
2022	2,956	18,873	2,550	16,323
2023	1,862	13,637	1,538	12,099
2024	1,566	8,329	1,367	6,962
2025	1,770	8,339	1,349	6,990
2026	1,599	5,589	1,426	4,163

Form mix, 2016–2026

Apartments and detached houses are the market. Everything between them — attached single-family homes, duplexes, 3–4 unit buildings and accessory units — totals 7,548 homes, 5.5% of the window.

Infill & missing middle

The small-scale forms, and what HOME did to them

Everything between a detached house and a 5+ apartment building: accessory units, duplexes, 3–4 unit buildings and attached single-family homes (townhouses and rowhouses). Austin files those under the same Census class as detached houses, so this counts them from the permit description — 1,635 homes the structure code alone would miss. Measured in homes, not permits: from 2025 the duplex halves are permitted individually, so permit counts inflate while units stay honest.

Missing-middle homes permitted

share of all homes below each year

ADU / secondaryDuplex3–4 unit buildingsAttached single-family

The category boundary moved, so read the total, not the colors. HOME Phase 1 made additional units allowed by right rather than "accessory", and the permit classes followed: ADU permits fall from 247 homes in 2023 to 11 in 2025, while duplex rises from 139 to 406. That is one category emptying into another, not accessory units ceasing to be built.

Small secondary units, through the relabeling

Permitted as ADUPermitted as two-family, ADU-sizedGenuine duplex (larger two-family)

Floor area separates the two, because the building did not change when its category did. Splitting two-family permits at 1,466 sq ft per unit — the size of a pre-HOME ADU — shows what actually happened: units permitted as ADUs fall from 245 to 9, ADU-sized two-family rises from 14 to 220, and genuine duplex construction barely moves (123 to 158). Small secondary units are not down 96%; taken together they are down 12% on 2023.

Post-HOME these are not ADUs in the regulatory sense — that status no longer exists. This is a physical category: small secondary units on a lot. 2026 is partial and reads low.

By year

Year	Homes	% of all homes	ADU	Duplex	3–4 unit buildings	Attached single-family	Permits
2016	727	7	232	312	15	168	565
2017	900	9	358	264	69	209	721
2018	961	9	342	421	94	104	768
2019	1,079	6	384	306	74	315	883
2020	823	4	333	192	70	228	681
2021	767	4	346	188	36	197	648
2022	650	3	331	155	61	103	533
2023	566	4	247	139	51	129	460
2024	340	4	92	137	20	91	297
2025	470	6	11	406	25	28	424
2026	265	5	3	151	48	63	226

3–4 unit buildings are buildings or projects of three or four homes: the Census “3–4 family” class (104), plus permits whose description names a triplex or fourplex. Since HOME (2024) they are mostly three-unit lots, each home its own attached, usually three-story townhome; before it, mostly for-sale townhome and condo rows, with about one in four a 3–4 unit rental building inside a garden-apartment complex. Attached single-family homes (townhouses and rowhouses on their own lots, which Austin files under the one-family class) are counted separately.

The attached single-family column is read from permit descriptions, because Austin files townhouses under the same Census class as detached houses and the appraisal roll has no townhouse code at all. The window total is sound, but there is no second ledger to check it against and the year-to-year figures move with how permits happen to be worded — read the level, not the trend.

Where infill lands, by base zoning district

60% of missing-middle homes land in SF districts — the single-family land HOME was written to open up. The next largest is PUD at 22%.

District	Homes	Permits	Share
SF	4,519	3,799	1
PUD	1,654	1,377	0
MF	450	331	0
UNZONED / NO MATCH	257	203	0
GR	202	128	0
CS	103	65	0
GO	76	69	0
RR	71	71	0

Top infill permit holders

Who is actually doing the small-scale work, by homes permitted over the window. Last 12 mo sits beside it so a name that has stopped is visible as one — several of the largest have pulled nothing recently.

Builder	Homes	Permits	Last 12 mo	Mainly builds	Share
Milestone Community Builders, LLC	500	344	18	3–4 unit buildings	6.9%
David Weekley Homes	330	319	0	Attached single-family (townhouse/rowhouse)	4.5%
Shreve Land Constructors LLC	214	214	0	Duplex	2.9%
HOMES by AVI (Texas) LP	184	127	0	Duplex	2.5%
Prominence Homes, LLC MAIN	182	177	0	Attached single-family (townhouse/rowhouse)	2.5%
D R Horton Homes	154	124	0	Duplex	2.1%
Pecan Valley Homes LLC MAIN	144	126	4	ADU / secondary	2.0%
CalAtlantic Homes	141	141	0	Attached single-family (townhouse/rowhouse)	1.9%
Lennar Homes of Texas MAIN	129	129	0	Attached single-family (townhouse/rowhouse)	1.8%
Precise Custom Homes Inc.	110	103	0	ADU / secondary	1.5%
Ash Creek Homes, Inc.	70	70	0	Attached single-family (townhouse/rowhouse)	1.0%
SVAG Construction MAIN	70	36	1	Duplex	1.0%

Infill is concentrated: the top name alone is 6.9% of homes, and permit counts run well above homes for the duplex builders because each half is now permitted separately.

Who is building

Most active permit holders

Ranked by homes permitted, on the share of permits that name a contractor. Corporate families are not merged, so a builder operating under several entities appears more than once.

Top builders by homes

last 12 months

Builder	Homes	Permits	Mainly builds	Share of named
OHT Construction LLC MAIN	798	23	apartment	12.7%
GS Construction Midsouth, LLC	426	6	apartment	6.8%
NRP Contractors II, LLC	341	6	apartment	5.4%
Morgan PRL Construction LLC	315	10	apartment	5.0%
Journeyman Construction	310	16	apartment	4.9%
The NRP Contractors, LLC	306	5	apartment	4.9%
Westwood Residential Builders 85, a rexas Limited partnership	306	8	apartment	4.9%
Dominion Construction, LLC	287	3	apartment	4.6%
Skybeck Construction, LLC	236	2	apartment	3.8%
Ryan Companies US INC	232	3	apartment	3.7%
Summit Design Build	215	1	apartment	3.4%
ICON Builders, LLC	208	2	apartment	3.3%

Builder	Homes	Permits	Mainly builds	Share of named
OHT Construction LLC MAIN	786	20	apartment	16.6%
GS Construction Midsouth, LLC	426	6	apartment	9.0%
NRP Contractors II, LLC	341	6	apartment	7.2%
Journeyman Construction	310	16	apartment	6.6%
Westwood Residential Builders 85, a rexas Limited partnership	306	8	apartment	6.5%
The NRP Contractors, LLC	306	5	apartment	6.5%
Morgan PRL Construction LLC	295	3	apartment	6.2%
Dominion Construction, LLC	287	3	apartment	6.1%
Skybeck Construction, LLC	236	2	apartment	5.0%
Ryan Companies US INC	232	3	apartment	4.9%
Summit Design Build	215	1	apartment	4.6%
ICON Builders, LLC	208	2	apartment	4.4%

Builder	Homes	Permits	Mainly builds	Share of named
Milestone Community Builders, LLC	116	110	detached	7.4%
New Home Co	82	82	detached	5.2%
Century Land Holdings II, LLC	75	75	detached	4.8%
Trophy Signature Homes	56	56	detached	3.6%
Joseph Design Build MAIN	54	54	detached	3.4%
Meritage Homes Corp	46	46	detached	2.9%
David Weekley Homes	43	43	detached	2.7%
Paradisa Homes, LLC MAIN	42	42	detached	2.7%
St. Stephens Build, LLC	36	36	detached	2.3%
D R Horton Homes	33	33	detached	2.1%
Hoch Construction LLC.	33	33	detached	2.1%
Eastside Construction Company LLC	31	31	duplex	2.0%

Builder	Homes	Permits	Mainly builds	Share of named
OHT Construction LLC MAIN	13,552	288	apartment	9.9%
Journeyman Construction	6,462	183	apartment	4.7%
Skybeck Construction, LLC	5,499	123	apartment	4.0%
GS Construction Midsouth, LLC MAIN	3,969	60	apartment	2.9%
D R Horton Homes	3,845	3,818	detached	2.8%
Oden Hughes LLC dba Cactus Rose Oh Delta LLC	3,448	108	apartment	2.5%
Milestone Community Builders, LLC	2,520	1,772	detached	1.8%
The NRP Group LLC	2,499	71	apartment	1.8%
Andres Construction	1,972	28	apartment	1.4%
KB Home	1,948	1,952	detached	1.4%
JE Dunn Construction MAIN	1,859	6	apartment	1.4%
Provident General Contractors	1,855	22	apartment	1.4%

Builder	Homes	Permits	Mainly builds	Share of named
OHT Construction LLC MAIN	13,488	266	apartment	12.7%
Journeyman Construction	6,452	178	apartment	6.1%
Skybeck Construction, LLC	5,489	118	apartment	5.2%
GS Construction Midsouth, LLC MAIN	3,969	60	apartment	3.8%
Oden Hughes LLC dba Cactus Rose Oh Delta LLC	3,415	98	apartment	3.2%
The NRP Group LLC	2,483	63	apartment	2.4%
Andres Construction	1,972	28	apartment	1.9%
JE Dunn Construction MAIN	1,859	6	apartment	1.8%
Provident General Contractors	1,855	22	apartment	1.8%
Rampart Multifamily	1,835	43	apartment	1.7%
AMLI Development Company, LLC	1,776	33	apartment	1.7%
Bartlett Cocke General Contractors	1,709	25	apartment	1.6%

Builder	Homes	Permits	Mainly builds	Share of named
D R Horton Homes	3,845	3,818	detached	12.3%
KB Home	1,948	1,952	detached	6.2%
Milestone Community Builders, LLC	1,817	1,673	detached	5.8%
Lennar Homes of Texas MAIN	1,439	1,440	detached	4.6%
David Weekley Homes	1,225	1,214	detached	3.9%
CalAtlantic Homes	1,153	1,153	detached	3.7%
Pulte Homes of Texas L.P. dba Pulte Group	943	943	detached	3.0%
RSI Communities (DO NOT USE)	797	797	detached	2.6%
M-I Homes of Austin, LLC	469	469	detached	1.5%
Century Land Holdings II, LLC	426	426	detached	1.4%
Paradisa Homes, LLC MAIN	417	402	detached	1.3%
Urban Intown Homes LLC	393	394	detached	1.3%

Multifamily means the 5+ and mixed-use classes — apartment-scale work. Everything else is detached, ADU, duplex, attached single-family and 3–4 unit buildings, a different business that the combined table hides behind apartment general contractors.

Geography

Where new housing is landing

Density of homes per square mile by ZIP. Densest area in Austin is 78701 at 266 homes per square mile.

Homes per square mile

last 12 months

Fewer homes / sq miMore

Top ZIPs by homes

ZIP	Homes	Permits	Multifamily	Per sq mi
78702	753	117	86%	147
78758	597	30	96%	63
78752	459	37	94%	147
78701	447	4	100%	266
78735	404	21	100%	21
78724	383	43	90%	15
78744	333	31	93%	15
78753	318	20	96%	30
78736	315	10	100%	16
78660	310	16	100%	7
78745	289	185	40%	22
78704	248	145	45%	29

ZIP	Homes	Permits	Multifamily	Per sq mi
78702	9,753	2,046	81%	1,899
78758	8,649	281	98%	916
78723	8,309	2,382	74%	1,165
78741	7,869	1,180	87%	997
78701	7,290	32	100%	4,334
78745	6,642	1,593	80%	505
78754	6,224	2,653	63%	437
78705	5,958	198	98%	3,196
78753	5,749	506	94%	546
78747	5,718	2,738	56%	282
78724	5,563	1,502	76%	217
78744	5,446	1,835	68%	239

A ZIP is a postal delivery area, not a neighborhood. These boundaries cross the city limit; the permits counted inside them do not.

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Draw any area and read its whole permit history — new homes, demolitions, remodels and additions, on one timeline.

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Land & building

Zoning, lots and building size

Zoning is the district each parcel sits in today. Austin publishes no parcel-level rezoning history, so read this as what has been built on land now zoned that way.

Homes by base zoning district

District	Homes	Permits
MF	21,794	2,006
SF	21,539	20,700
CS	21,511	505
PUD	16,801	5,291
GR	16,298	1,033
NBG	7,045	64
CBD	6,340	25
UNZONED / NO MATCH	5,296	1,036
TOD	5,006	186
LI	4,346	542

Typical lot, by form

Form	Parcels	Frontage ft	Depth ft	Lot p25	Lot median	Lot p75
detached	17,069	52	121	5,281	6,325	8,002
adu	968	57	140	6,636	7,782	9,857
Attached single-family (townhouse/rowhouse)	533	28	86	1,650	2,182	3,094
apartment	446	279	461	46,048	121,196	165,051
duplex	443	70	146	7,295	9,228	12,711
mixed_use	30	341	431	75,008	88,188	152,978
3–4 unit buildings	23	74	151	7,712	11,970	12,798

A detached lot runs about 52 × 121 ft on 6,325 sq ft; an apartment site about 2.8 acres. Frontage is derived from parcel geometry — a distribution, not a survey.

Single-family floor area by year · permits ledger

Year	Permits	p25	Median	p75	p90
2016	3,360	2,053	2,542	3,186	3,805
2017	3,823	1,986	2,472	3,057	3,771
2018	3,651	2,001	2,473	2,982	3,580
2019	3,718	1,946	2,449	2,982	3,532
2020	3,115	1,996	2,442	2,905	3,677
2021	3,042	2,032	2,519	3,059	3,775
2022	2,576	2,144	2,648	3,186	4,146
2023	1,546	1,909	2,609	3,276	4,313
2024	1,369	2,045	2,558	3,261	4,220
2025	1,349	1,857	2,384	3,135	4,420
2026	1,426	2,078	2,574	3,136	4,259

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Approvals

How long a permit takes

Days from application to issued permit, full window. The application date is unusable before 2013, so the series cannot start earlier.

Days to issue

By form

Form	Permits with a review time	Median days	Slowest 10%	Median homes	Days per home
Detached house	24,313	31	157	1	31
Attached single-family (townhouse/rowhouse)	1,623	39	262	1	39
Duplex	1,658	76	356	2	49
ADU / secondary	2,660	97	280	1	96
3–4 unit buildings	236	128	483	3	72
Apartment (5+)	2,182	246	655	31	8
Mixed use	38	769	1,011	6	128

The last two columns rank the forms oppositely. By absolute wait apartments are slowest at 246 days; per home delivered they are the fastest, because one review yields about 31 homes. An ADU takes 96.0 days for a single home.

Completions

Homes finished

What the county appraisal roll says was finished, by the year built it records: a separate record from the permits above, never mixed with them. Condos are counted by unit, as the roll records them. The newest years are still being assessed.

Homes finished, by year built and form

Detached houseAttached single-family2–4 homesCondo buildingManufacturedOtherLighter: still being assessed

Year built	Detached house	Attached single-family	2–4 homes	Condo building	Manufactured	ADU	All
2016	1,669 (1,669)	192 (192)	42 (21)	1,425 (1,425)	4 (4)	127 (127)	3,459 (3,438)
2017	1,923 (1,923)	124 (124)	52 (25)	1,475 (1,475)	6 (6)	124 (124)	3,704 (3,677)
2018	1,904 (1,904)	59 (59)	22 (11)	2,799 (2,799)	3 (3)	145 (145)	4,932 (4,921)
2019	2,299 (2,299)	67 (67)	24 (12)	2,044 (2,044)	5 (5)	164 (164)	4,603 (4,591)
2020	1,952 (1,952)	40 (40)	12 (6)	1,169 (1,169)	6 (6)	195 (195)	3,374 (3,368)
2021	2,059 (2,059)	42 (42)	52 (26)	1,830 (1,830)	4 (4)	160 (160)	4,147 (4,121)
2022	1,946 (1,946)	161 (161)	40 (20)	1,173 (1,173)	–	277 (277)	3,597 (3,577)
2023	967 (967)	88 (88)	43 (20)	1,084 (1,084)	2 (2)	230 (230)	2,414 (2,391)
2024	735 (735)	8 (8)	39 (16)	485 (485)	10 (10)	126 (126)	1,403 (1,380)
2025 *	856 (856)	3 (3)	239 (119)	280 (280)	2 (2)	164 (164)	1,544 (1,424)
2026 *	23 (23)	–	–	1 (1)	–	6 (6)	30 (30)

Homes (buildings). * still being assessed. Condos are counted by unit here, so their buildings are units.

Apartments are not shown. The appraisal roll records neither their unit counts nor comparable building counts: from 2024 its "apartment" improvements are mostly small structures on multifamily land, not complexes. Multifamily volume is in the permits ledger (Production, Pipeline).

Pipeline

Permitted versus finished

Two independent records — the city's permits, and the county appraisal roll's year built. Never mixed, and they cross-check each other.

Homes permitted and homes assessed complete

Year	Permitted	Assessed complete
2016	9,820	3,459
2017	10,055	3,704
2018	11,188	4,932
2019	16,759	4,603
2020	18,509	3,374
2021	16,883	4,147
2022	18,873	3,597
2023	13,637	2,414
2024	8,329	1,403
2025	8,339	1,544
2026	5,589	30

The appraisal roll trails by a year or more, so the newest two years always understate what was finished. Completed apartment units are not available at all — the roll records structures, not dwelling counts — so this column covers only forms whose size is fixed by their type.

Data sources

What this is built from

6 public datasets, 767 MB, pulled 2 Sep–9 Nov 2026. 4 of 6 carry their publisher's latest; Zoning districts has moved on 6 days since; Jurisdiction boundaries has moved on 6 days since we pulled it. Each publisher was checked live when this page was generated.

Issued construction permits

current

Every building permit issued by the city, 1980 to date. The permits ledger: what was authorised, when, of what form and how many homes.

Publisher City of Austin — Development Services Refreshes Daily Source updated 2026-11-08 Fetched 2026-11-09Size 80.4 MB

https://data.austintexas.gov/d/3syk-w9eu

TCAD appraisal export (roll 2026, supplement 1, run 2026-08-05)

current

The certified appraisal roll. Supplies the completions ledger (year built per improvement), the taxing-entity scope, and construction attributes.

Publisher Travis Central Appraisal District Refreshes Annual, certified late July; supplements after Source updated 2026-08-05 Fetched 2026-09-02Size 551.0 MB

https://traviscad.org/publicinformation

TCAD parcels

current

Parcel polygons with TCAD ids. Lot geometry for frontage, depth and area, and the spatial fallback for scope.

Publisher City of Austin (TCAD source) Refreshes Monthly Source updated 2026-11-01 Fetched 2026-11-02Size 103.6 MB

https://services.arcgis.com/0L95CJ0VTaxqcmED/arcgis/rest/services/EXTERNAL_tcad_parcel/FeatureServ

Zoning districts

publisher 6d ahead

Base zoning with overlays. Note this is CURRENT zoning — Austin publishes no parcel-level rezoning history.

Publisher City of Austin Refreshes Continuous Source updated 2026-11-08 Fetched 2026-11-02Size 28.1 MB

https://services.arcgis.com/0L95CJ0VTaxqcmED/arcgis/rest/services/PLANNINGCADASTRE_zoning_large_ma

Jurisdiction boundaries

publisher 6d ahead

Full-purpose, limited-purpose and ETJ boundaries. Defines the study scope and keeps both ledgers on one definition of Austin.

Publisher City of Austin Refreshes Continuous Source updated 2026-11-08 Fetched 2026-11-02Size 3.3 MB

https://services.arcgis.com/0L95CJ0VTaxqcmED/arcgis/rest/services/BOUNDARIES_jurisdictions/Feature

ZIP code boundaries

current

Postal ZIP polygons, used only as containers for the massing map. They cross the city limit and are not city geography.

Publisher City of Austin (external layer) Refreshes Infrequent Source updated 2024-05-16 Fetched 2026-11-02Size 0.2 MB

https://services.arcgis.com/0L95CJ0VTaxqcmED/arcgis/rest/services/External_Zipcodes/FeatureServer/

Texas is a non-disclosure state: no sale price exists in any of these sources, so nothing here speaks to what new housing sold for. Assessed value is not a substitute and is not used as one.

Generated 2026-11-09 from the pipeline outputs in data/out/. Every figure on this page is read from those files at build time, never transcribed.

Austin housing market

Where the market stands

Homes permitted

Homes permitted

The numbers

Form mix, 2016–2026

The small-scale forms, and what HOME did to them

Missing-middle homes permitted

Small secondary units, through the relabeling

By year

Where infill lands, by base zoning district

Top infill permit holders

Most active permit holders

Top builders by homes

Where new housing is landing

Homes per square mile

Top ZIPs by homes

Explore neighborhoods with our interactive permit map

Zoning, lots and building size

Homes by base zoning district

Typical lot, by form

Single-family floor area by year · permits ledger

Building in Austin?

How long a permit takes

Days to issue

By form

Homes finished

Homes finished, by year built and form

Permitted versus finished

Homes permitted and homes assessed complete

What this is built from

Issued construction permits

TCAD appraisal export (roll 2026, supplement 1, run 2026-08-05)

TCAD parcels

Zoning districts

Jurisdiction boundaries

ZIP code boundaries