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New pool, roof and solar permits. The day the city issues them.


New residential pool, spa, re-roof and solar permits from the permit files of Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio and nine more Texas cities, on a live map by ZIP.

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What this covers. Pool and spa, roofing and solar permits from the cities of Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, Plano, Corpus Christi and six Austin-area cities, plus Arlington (pools only) and Frisco (Collin County side only). That's about a quarter of Texans, not the whole state. San Antonio and Corpus Christi arrive in monthly batches, Houston weekly. Contractor names are shown only when they are a business.

Monday morning

Residential pool & spa permit just landed on the Dallas-Fort Worth list.

Pool & spa in Plano. Status: permit issued. A new pool needs a fence, a safety cover, a service route and a backyard to match. If you sell any of that, this is the name you want on your desk on Monday, with the week still ahead of you.

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From the public records, updated daily

New in five Texas metros, by the numbers

568 new in the last 14 days
210 in the last 7 days
328 pool and spa permits
140 ZIP codes with a new permit

New permits per day

Last 21 days, by source

Dallas-Fort WorthHoustonAustin areaSan Antonio and Corpus Christi (monthly)
0255075100Oct 18Oct 23Oct 28Nov 2Nov 7
See the numbers
DayDallas-Fort WorthHoustonAustin areaSan Antonio and Corpus Christi (monthly)
Oct 181000
Oct 193301735
Oct 202601120
Oct 213101325
Oct 222702019
Oct 232001515
Oct 241020
Oct 251020
Oct 262402120
Oct 273401822
Oct 282902015
Oct 292902120
Oct 30480820
Oct 313000
Nov 10000
Nov 2270110
Nov 3640100
Nov 4380210
Nov 528090
Nov 62000
Nov 70000

“Last 7 days” above is the newest 7 days of this chart added up (see the numbers). Dates are the source date for rows from our first read, then the day a row first appeared in the file we read. Files update on their own schedules, so some rows arrive in batches.

By metro

Last 14 days

  • Dallas-Fort Worth 328
  • Austin 143
  • San Antonio 97

By category

Last 14 days

  • Roofing 310
  • Pool & spa 164
  • Solar 94

The pipeline

Last 14 days, by what the state shows

  • 568 Permit issued. The city issued a pool, roofing or solar permit at this address.

Top cities

Last 14 days

  1. Dallas 183
  2. Austin 126
  3. San Antonio 97
  4. Plano 52
  5. Fort Worth 48
  6. Frisco 44
  7. Lakeway 7
  8. Kyle 4
  9. Leander 3
  10. Arlington 1
  11. Bee Cave 1
  12. San Marcos 1
  13. West Lake Hills 1

Newest pool permits

The newest pool and spa permits on the list

  1. Residential pool & spa permit Plano · Dallas-Fort WorthNov 6
  2. Residential pool & spa permit Dallas · Dallas-Fort WorthNov 5
  3. Residential pool & spa permit Dallas · Dallas-Fort WorthNov 5
  4. Residential pool & spa permit · Wildflower Plumbing & Gas LLC AustinNov 5
  5. Residential pool & spa permit AustinNov 5
  6. Residential pool & spa permit AustinNov 5
  7. Commercial pool & spa permit Fort Worth · Dallas-Fort WorthNov 5
  8. Residential pool & spa permit Fort Worth · Dallas-Fort WorthNov 5

Busiest ZIP codes

Last 14 days

ZIPCityNewTop category
75035Frisco35Roofing
75214Dallas18Pool & spa
78704Austin18Pool & spa
75230Dallas14Pool & spa
75220Dallas12Pool & spa
75229Dallas11Roofing
78703Austin11Pool & spa
78731Austin11Pool & spa
75217Dallas10Roofing
75228Dallas8Roofing

Latest named permits

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Five metros, live now

Pick your metro

We cover these five metros today. Each one has its own list, category pages and week-by-week archive.

Live Houston City of Houston (weekly file)Live Dallas-Fort Worth 328 new in 14 days Dallas, Fort Worth and Plano; Frisco (Collin County side) and Arlington (pools only) in partLive Austin 143 new in 14 days Austin, San Marcos, Kyle, Buda, Leander, Hutto and LakewayLive San Antonio 97 new in 14 days City of San Antonio, including its outside-city-limits area (monthly file)Live Corpus Christi City of Corpus Christi (monthly file)

By category

New permits by category

New pool & spa permits 386 in the last 30 daysNew roofing permits 691 in the last 30 daysNew solar permits 268 in the last 30 days

By city

New permits by city

Dallas 397 in the last 30 days · 88 this weekSan Antonio 341 in the last 30 daysAustin 272 in the last 30 days · 46 this weekFort Worth 120 in the last 30 days · 19 this weekPlano 76 in the last 30 days · 8 this weekFrisco 44 in the last 30 days · 44 this weekHouston 41 in the last 30 daysLeander 18 in the last 30 days · 1 this weekKyle 11 in the last 30 daysHutto 10 in the last 30 days

All cities

How it works

The permit shows up first

Before a pool is dug or a roof comes off, the city issues a permit. That record is how we see the job coming.

Step 1

The record gets published

Before a pool is dug, a roof replaced or solar panels go up, the homeowner or contractor pulls a city permit. Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin and Plano publish theirs daily, Houston weekly, San Antonio and Corpus Christi once a month.

Step 2

We read and sort it

We read each city's file and keep pool and spa, re-roof and roofing, and solar or photovoltaic permits, residential and commercial. Each permit is listed once, by its permit number, with the contractor's business name when the city shows one.

Step 3

You see it, with its limits

We cover the cities that publish permits we can read, about a quarter of Texans, and say so: most suburbs don't publish yet. Arlington's file has pools only and Frisco's covers its Collin County side only. Houston doesn't require a permit for most residential re-roofs, so its roofing list is thin. A private person is never named; those rows say owner-builder or individual.

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Guides

How a permit shows up in city records

Plain-English explainers on the city permit files behind every list.

Guide

How we find new permits

The public records behind Texas Permit Watch, how we decide what's new, and what we can't see.

Guide

How to read a Texas city pool permit

What a pool, roofing or solar permit record shows, how fast each city posts it, and what it can't tell you.

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