The Book · Austin · for supplier sales teams
50,169
permits in Austin named a contractor over the last twelve full months — 4,954 contractors,
247 of them up 30% or more on the half-year before, 84 new in the last four months. Ranked by the work each one is running.
Every number is a count from the city's file; nothing is scored.
All trades4,954
Electrical1,060
HVAC and mechanical709
Plumbing801
Irrigation2
Builders and GCs2,313
Driveways and flatwork69
Nobody matches that.
Bars are permits per month, oldest to newest; the faint last bar is this month so far. Twelve months means 2025-10 through 2026-09. Phones are the ones printed on the permit. A permit is a filing, not a purchase order: it shows who is working, not who they buy from.