City of Houston Residential Building Permits by Month and Year

Planning and DevelopmentUpdated May 1, 20261 resource

About this dataset

A monthly and yearly summary of single-family and multi-family building permits applied for in the City of Houston.

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City of Houston Residential Building Permits by Month
Excel spreadsheet containing monthly numbers of single family and multi family residential building permits from 2004 to present.
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Source: Building permit data aggregated from Houston Permitting Center weekly reports: https://www.houstontx.gov/planning/DevelopRegs/dev_reports.html.
Maintainer: Planning and Development Department
License: Open Data Commons Attribution License
Created: Nov 25, 2025
Last updated: May 1, 2026
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