TEXAS BUILDING PERMITS RESEARCH PACKAGE, 2020-2025
Where Texas Is Building the Most New Homes (2025)
Analysis and compilation by Frontier Outdoor Builders
Article: https://homefenceinstallationnearme.com/blog/where-texas-is-building-new-homes-2025/

CONTENTS
- article/fob_where_texas_building_new_homes_article.docx   Full article (Word)
- data/texas_county_rankings_and_trends_2020_2025.csv        County-level annual units, rankings, changes
- data/texas_incorporated_places_rankings_and_trends_2020_2025.csv   Place-level annual units, rankings, changes
- data/texas_bps_data_validation_2020_2025.csv               County vs. place-file reconciliation
- charts/*.png                                                Charts used in the article

SOURCE
U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey (BPS), annual county and South Region place files, 2020-2025. Texas = state FIPS 48.
https://www.census.gov/construction/bps/index.html
https://www2.census.gov/econ/bps/County/
https://www2.census.gov/econ/bps/Place/South%20Region/

METHODOLOGY AND LIMITATIONS
- Measure: authorized housing units (not buildings): units in 1-unit, 2-unit, 3-4-unit and 5+-unit buildings, summed.
- A permit signals planned construction, not proof a home was started or completed.
- County rankings come from the county files; those totals are used for statewide trends because they reproduce published statewide annual totals.
- Place rankings come from the South Region place files filtered to Texas. FIPS place code 99990 (a county's unincorporated area) is excluded from incorporated-place rankings but kept in the complete place CSV.
- Year-over-year and five-year changes are reported only where an entity has data in both years; missing records are not treated as zero.
- County and place totals do not fully reconcile in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2025 (differences of 835, 793, 2,745 and 855 units); they match in 2023 and 2024. Treat them as separate reporting views and do not add them together.
- Counts are not adjusted for population, housing stock or jurisdiction size. Large multifamily projects can swing annual totals; percentage changes from small bases can mislead, so absolute changes are included.
