Every permit type in Austin

5 kinds of permit appear on the 3,079 Austin permits we hold, as of 2026-09-09. 5 of them have enough measurable permits to say how long the city takes. Open a type to see the permits themselves.

Permit type	Permits held	Share of what we hold	Typical	9 in 10 within	Measured
Electrical Permit	982	31.9%	15 days	272 days	982
Plumbing Permit	779	25.3%	28 days	448 days	776
Mechanical Permit	630	20.5%	9 days	222 days	629
Building Permit	579	18.8%	32 days	180 days	577
Driveway / Sidewalks	109	3.5%	103 days	512 days	108

“Permits held” counts what PermitWatch holds for Austin — the most recently issued permits, not the city’s whole history — so it describes this corpus and not the city’s output.

What these names mean

Permit types are the city’s own classification, printed here exactly as Austin publishes them — including its prefixes and its spelling. Two cities describing the same job will use different words for it, which is why this page is per city.

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