Where Austin's Building Permits Are Piling Up: The Top ZIP Codes

Volume and dollars tell two different stories

Looking at every City of Austin permit issued in the last 90 days with a recorded project

valuation, two rankings emerge, and they don't agree. By sheer count of permits, Southeast

Austin's 78744 leads with 217 permits in the window, followed by South Austin's 78745

at 152. By dollar volume, a handful of very large projects dominate: North

Austin/Domain-adjacent 78758 (about $100M across 51 projects, nearly all of it a $51.2M

permit at 1412 Norseman Ter and the $48M apartment project at 2631 Kramer Ln) and East Austin's

78702 (about $53M across 84 projects, led by a $51.8M project at 4810 Gonzales St).

Top ZIPs by permit count (last 90 days)

• 78744 (Southeast Austin): 217 permits
• 78745 (South Austin): 152 permits
• 78704 (South Central Austin): 148 permits
• 78757 (North Central Austin): 138 permits
• 78747 (far South Austin): 126 permits

What's actually building in the two leaders

78745 posted the single largest line item among the two volume leaders: a $30.4M

new-construction permit at 1106 W Dittmar Rd (Bldg 30). The "Bldg 30" label is the tell that

this is one phase of a larger apartment complex, not a standalone building. 78744 is seeing a

steadier spread of mid-size new construction: a $3.0M permit at 5217 Winnebago Ln (Bldg 2),

$2.2M at 7200 Springfield Dr, and $2.0M at 7504 Cota Vista Dr (Bldg 7), all issued within the

last 90 days.

The outlier worth a caveat

78610, which is Buda, just outside Austin's city limits but inside our tracking radius, shows

up with only 3 permits. Each one carries the same $380 million valuation, because they are

all the Hays CISD High School #4 project: one project filed as several linked permits, each

repeating the full project value. Add the three rows together and you get $1.14 billion, which

is three times the real figure. We count a project's valuation once, so Buda's total is $380

million. The same rule applies to every dollar figure above: the Kramer Ln apartments are six

permits and one $48M project, not $288M.

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*Source: City of Austin issued construction permits (Socrata `3syk-w9eu`), issue dates July 4

through October 2, 2026. Corrected October 4, 2026: an earlier version undercounted permits per

ZIP and added repeated project valuations together, which overstated the dollar totals.*

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