Construction Leads in Austin, Texas
Austin issues around fifty thousand permits a year and publishes the contractor company on about nine in ten of them, which makes it one of the most workable permit records in the United States for a trade contractor. Builtie works from that record: it scores Austin projects against your trade and territory, estimates how far along each build is, and names a person at the builder or general contractor to contact, with LinkedIn and email outreach on the Growth plan.
The same four steps, whether the buyer is a builder, a designer, an owner or a company you want to acquire.
Where Austin sits
Austin among the metros Builtie covers. See all of them on one map.
How much is being permitted
Permits by year in Austin. 2026 is a partial year counted to September 4, 2026, so its bar is shorter for that reason rather than a slowdown.
Austin has produced 148,576 permits since January 2024: 55,697 in 2024, 54,317 in 2025 and 38,562 so far in 2026. Counted on September 4, 2026.
What is being permitted
| Most common permit categories in Austin | Since Jan 2024 | Share of these six |
|---|---|---|
| Residential | 108,566 | 73% |
| Commercial | 40,010 | 27% |
What the Austin record actually carries
The record is the city's issued-permits dataset, which carries the contractor company name and, unusually, a contractor phone number. A second dataset with the same name on the same portal omits the contractor fields entirely, so the choice of source decides whether the feed is useful at all.
What a trade contractor should know about this market
- Residential and commercial in one record. The permit class splits cleanly between the two, so a trade that works only one side can exclude the other rather than filtering by hand.
- Trade permits are separate line items. Electrical and mechanical permits appear alongside building permits, which means a trade can see its own work being permitted rather than inferring it.
- Growth brings unfamiliar builders. A market adding this much construction is constantly bringing in firms without an established local trade list, and that is the easiest introduction there is.
- Valuation figures need care. The declared valuation field carries occasional outliers large enough to distort any total, which is why this page reports permit counts for Austin and not dollar values.
What Builtie carries in Austin
Austin carries the permit history rather than a single snapshot, projects scored against your trade and territory, an inferred build stage so you can tell an open package from one awarded months ago, and the people who award the work traced past applicants and numbered companies to a named person with email, phone and LinkedIn where each can be verified.
Who is busiest in each trade
Austin stamps a trade on each permit, so the firms doing the most work in each one can be counted rather than guessed. These rankings come from the same permit record as the figures above, over the first half of 2026.
- The most active electrical contractors in Austin
- The most active plumbing contractors in Austin
- The most active mechanical and HVAC contractors in Austin
Read them as a map of who is active, not as a bid list: a trade permit is issued after the contract has already been awarded.
When your package is bought
The buying window does not move with the city. Concrete and excavation are committed before the site is visibly dug, framing is booked while the foundation cures, roofing and cabinetry are decided during framing, and painting is awarded while drywall goes up. Our guide to when each trade is decided maps all of them against the five build stages.
Builtie plans start at $79 per month per seat for 20 projects a month, and $99 for 50. Growth adds LinkedIn and email outreach you run from the platform; Starter does not include Outreach. Done-for-you — where Builtie's team runs the content, campaigns and replies for you — is the Custom plan. There is a 7-day free trial with 10 projects.
Which plan fits you?
Starter, $79 per seat per month (CAD). 20 matched projects a month, which is $3.95 for a fully worked project — the decision maker, their verified email, phone and LinkedIn, the site context and the opening script all included in the one credit. Credits reset each month, and you can top up with a credit pack any time. Sourcing that by hand runs about twenty minutes a project, so the plan buys back roughly seven hours a month. Pick it if you already have someone sending the messages and what you are short of is a qualified list. It does not include Outreach.
Growth, $99 per seat per month (CAD). Twenty dollars more buys two and a half times the projects — 50 a month, $1.98 each — plus the entire outreach layer: LinkedIn and email sequences, campaigns, the unified inbox, events and social signals. Anyone opening more than 20 projects a month is better off here on volume alone, before counting the ten to fifteen hours a week that automated follow-up gives back. Pick it if someone on your team will log in and run it.
Done-For-You, the Custom plan, from CAD $1,500 a month. Pick it when the honest answer to “who is going to run this?” is nobody. Builtie's team writes the content, runs your LinkedIn, Instagram and email, answers the comments and DMs, builds and manages the campaigns, A/B tests the messaging, analyzes your followers and your competitors, and hands you the conversations. It sits on top of a Growth seat and is quoted against your trade, territory and channels. See everything Done-For-You covers, or compare all three on the pricing page.
See also: Building permit lookup: Austin.
Every trade in Austin, from excavation to landscaping, with its own count and award window: Austin construction leads by trade.
Frequently asked questions
How many construction permits does Austin issue?
Austin has issued 148,576 permits since January 2024: 55,697 in 2024, 54,317 in 2025 and 38,562 so far in 2026, counted on September 4, 2026. The 2026 figure is a partial year.
Where does the Austin permit data come from?
The city's own official open-data service. Builtie reads the record the city publishes rather than a resold copy of it, then adds the history, the scoring, the build stage and the decision makers on top.
Does the Austin record include a contractor phone number?
The city's issued-permit dataset carries a contractor phone field alongside the company name, which is unusual among open permit records. As with any published field, it is only as good as what the applicant entered.
How does Austin compare with the other cities Builtie covers?
Same depth, different volume. Every covered city carries permit history, scored projects, build stage and identified decision makers; Austin produced 148,576 permits since January 2024, which you can compare against the other nine on the coverage map.
What does Builtie cost?
Starter is $79 per month per seat for 20 projects a month and Growth is $99 for 50. Growth includes LinkedIn and email outreach; Starter does not, and done-for-you is the Custom plan, and there is a 7-day free trial with 10 projects.