City of Austin · not Travis County · not Austin metro
City of Austin Contractor & Permit Intelligence
Official City of Austin issued construction permits. Local contractor company and phone on a permit row are a local identity, not a state license. Texas has no statewide general-contractor license. This page is not a ranking, recommendation, or Trust Score.
Snapshot contractor-tx-austin-local-intel-v1 · source clock 2026-09-04T15:28:02.857115+00:00 · grain one row = one issued permit (permit_number unique in source metadata)
2,373,854
Issued construction permits
31,908
Public company+phone identities
1,333,297
Permit rows with contractor phone
233,085
Exact TCAD geo_id joins
Trace this number
- Source
- City of Austin Issued Construction Permits 3syk-w9eu
- Source date
- 2026-09-04T15:28:02.857115+00:00
- Denominator
- official issued-permit CSV rows
- Calculation
- Count CSV rows; distinct normalized company+phone where both exist
- Reporting grain
- one row = one issued permit (permit_number unique in source metadata)
- Coverage
- City of Austin issued construction permits — not Travis County, not Austin metro
- Caveat
- Permit count is not quality. Local contractor identity is not a TDLR or TSBPE license.
What official local contractor evidence is available?
- 2,373,854 issued-permit rows (1921–2026). Grain: one row = one issued permit.
- 1,186,388 rows name a contractor company; 32,330 distinct company values.
- 1,425,481 rows carry contractor trade. Top trades: General Contractor (563,495), Electrical Contractor (365,453), Plumbing Contractor (268,671), Mechanical Contractor (227,862).
- Permit types: Electrical Permit (686,985), Plumbing Permit (545,319), Building Permit (519,904), Mechanical Permit (505,140), Driveway / Sidewalks (116,506).
- Status mix includes Final (2,004,157), Expired (169,074), VOID (153,257), Active (28,027), Withdrawn (17,704).
- Source-native TDLR/TSBPE ID: none. Source-native city contractor number: none. EXACT_STATE_CREDENTIAL = 0.
FINAL is a permit status, not proof that inspections passed. EXPIRED is not discipline. VOID is not misconduct. Valuation on 1,163,347 rows is not revenue.
Research a City of Austin permit contractor
Public identity is normalized contractor company plus normalized contractor phone when both exist on the issued-permit row ( AUSTIN_PERMIT_CONTRACTOR_IDENTITY). That key is not a TDLR or TSBPE credential. Person-name-only rows are not published. Results are capped and sorted alphabetically or by query relevance — never by permit count or valuation.
Public contacts
Contractor phone is published only with a company/business context (1,333,297 rows). Provenance AUSTIN_PERMIT_CONTRACTOR_PHONE. Contractor address provenance AUSTIN_PERMIT_CONTRACTOR_ADDRESS (1,326,143 rows). Email and website are NOT_IN_SOURCE. Person-name-only contacts stay REVIEW_REQUIRED and are not listed here. These permit-row contacts do not overwrite TDLR or TSBPE contacts.
State-credential treatment
This City of Austin file has no source-native TDLR, TSBPE, or city contractor number. EXACT_STATE_CREDENTIAL is 0. 174,673 HIGH_CONFIDENCE business-name matches exist in the harvest crosswalk. That count is internal only. It is not license verification, not a licensed roster, and not a state-matched public badge.
Always confirm a trade credential on TDLR License Search and TSBPE.
Local-only contractor treatment
965,876 rows are LOCAL_ONLY_CONTRACTOR_IDENTITY, including 351,005 general-contractor trade rows. Local-only is not unlicensed. Texas does not issue a statewide general-contractor license. A City of Austin permit contractor without a TDLR specialty or TSBPE plumbing match is not published as unlicensed.
TCAD property linkage
Austin tcad_id joins Travis CAD PROP.TXT geo_id. 233,085 exact joins of 254,703 distinct permit TCAD IDs (91.5%). 21,618 permit TCAD IDs did not join. Owner fields were not exported. Appraisal value is not a sale price. This is not an owner dossier.
Trace this number
- Source
- Travis Central Appraisal District 2026 certified appraisal export PROP.TXT
- Source date
- 2026 certified / harvest 2026-09-04
- Denominator
- distinct permit tcad_id values
- Calculation
- Exact string join Austin tcad_id == PROP.TXT geo_id (layout positions 547-596)
- Reporting grain
- geo_id parcel identifier, not owner
- Coverage
- Travis CAD parcels matched from City of Austin tcad_id
- Caveat
- Appraisal is not a sale. Parcel join is not an owner dossier. Unmatched is not zero value.
Evidence depth
| Family | Rows / keys | Limitation |
|---|---|---|
| Issued permits | 2,373,854 | City of Austin only; permit ≠ quality |
| Public company+phone identities | 31,908 | Not a state license; person-name-only excluded |
| Contractor phones / addresses | 1,333,297 / 1,326,143 | Permit-row provenance; not TDLR/TSBPE contacts |
| EXACT_STATE_CREDENTIAL | 0 | No source-native TDLR/TSBPE/city contractor number |
| HIGH_CONFIDENCE (internal) | 174,673 | Not license verification; not a public badge |
| TCAD exact geo_id joins | 233,085 | Appraisal ≠ sale; no owner dossiers |
Findings
- City of Austin is the only Texas local page. Fort Worth, Tarrant, San Antonio, Bexar, Houston, and Harris stay data-only.
- The issued-permit file is a contractor-activity source with company, phone, address, and trade — and with no source-native state license ID.
- 351,005 local-only general-contractor rows cannot be read as unlicensed: Texas has no statewide GC license.
- HIGH_CONFIDENCE name matching (174,673 rows) stays internal. It is not turned into license verification.
What we don't know
- Complete Texas contractor denominator remains UNKNOWN. There is no statewide GC roster.
- Person-name-only permit contacts are not published.
- No local record is not proof of no work.
- This lookup is not a complete permit-number directory.