How many homes the Houston metro approved for each household that moved in

the Houston metro · Data as of 2026-09-11 · ALEX Intelligence

Methodology

Source:

U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, county annual totals, 2023; and U.S. Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Migration Data, county-to-county inflows, 2022-23

Measure

One-unit homes permitted, ranked highest first across Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, San Jacinto, Waller, TX (10 ranked in total).

How the headline figure is computed

One-unit homes permitted in 2023 (50,992) divided by the net number of households the IRS recorded moving into this market's counties in the same year (78,508 arriving less 67,923 departing = 10,585 net). Both figures are for 2023 and for the same 10 counties, which is what makes them a ratio rather than two unrelated numbers. The IRS withholds flows below its disclosure threshold, so the net figure is a floor and this ratio is therefore an upper bound.

Universe

One-unit permits against net IRS migration, both for 2023 and both over this market's own counties.

Vintage

2023

Reproduce this query

https://www2.census.gov/econ/bps/County/co2023a.txt https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/countyinflow2223.csv https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/countyoutflow2223.csv

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