How much the pace of new home approvals in the Houston metro changed in a year
the Houston metro · Data as of
· ALEX Intelligence
-12.3%One-Year Change in One-Unit Homes Permitted (2025) — 2025 against 2024
#
County
One-unit homes permitted
1
Harris County
16,940
2
Montgomery County
11,597
3
Fort Bend County
9,638
4
Brazoria County
2,789
5
Galveston County
2,521
6
Liberty County
1,010
7
Chambers County
562
8
San Jacinto County
519
9
Waller County
339
10
Austin County
304
Methodology
Source:
U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, county annual totals, 2024 and 2025
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 across this market's 10 counties in 2025 (46,219) against 2024 (52,703), from the Census Building Permits Survey. Each county's own total is in the table below; the market figure is their sum.
Universe
One-unit permits only. A five-or-more-unit row is a single apartment building whose unit count was decided years earlier, so including it makes a county's total jump by hundreds when one project files.
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by ALEX Intelligence. No figure on this page was written by hand or by a
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the same table.