Houston building permits
Houston insights
Derived nightly from the silver dataset · last updated 2026-05-24 02:00 CTRecent commercial permits
Houston on PermitCore: daily-refreshed, IBC-cohort-tagged, DQ-flagged.
Parcel-joined geometry across Houston.
Every commercial permit joined to its lot polygon where source data permits. Join rate Parcel-joined ~91%. Unjoined rows are flagged with addr_unmatched, not silently dropped.
Daily refresh from the metro's open-data portals.
Refreshed every 24h from Houston's public permit datasets. Competitors typically update on the 1st and 15th with multi-week processing lag. PermitCore ingests, cohort-classifies, and DQ-flags by 02:00 local.
Field-level DQ flags on every row.
12 data-quality flags per row. Cell-level transparency on valuation, roof area, IBC class, parcel join, dedup, date sanity. Filter or weight by flag in API queries.
Top Houston contractors
Ranked by permit count, trailing 90 days · Each links to the contractor pageHouston by cohort
Cohort breakdown coming soon — LLM enrichment in progress for HoustonHouston permit data is being classified.
Bronze ingest is active and refreshing daily. Cohort tags activate once the LLM classifier passes over Houston's raw records.
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