How many building permits does Longview issue a year?

About 4,199 a year in the City of Longview: 5,599 permits over 16 months, October 2023 through January 2025.

What is the busiest month for permits in Longview?

July, counting every kind of work (137 against an average month of 100). November is the quietest (76). Each kind of work has its own season; the charts above show them.

What share of Longview permits are for homes?

71%: 3,983 of the 5,599 permits issued October 2023 through January 2025 were residential permits.

Longview, TX Permit Statistics (2025): 5,599 Permits

By kind of work

Permits issued October 2023 through January 2025. Last 12 months on file is Feb 2024–Jan 2025. Homes is the share issued as residential permits. Busiest month is the calendar month with the most permits on average.

Kind of work	Permits	Share	Last 12 mo	Homes	Busiest month
Electrical	1,374	25%	1,136	75%	July
Plumbing	1,301	23%	1,034	77%	July
HVAC	750	13%	655	71%	May
Roofing	609	11%	490	87%	June
New homes	337	6%	239	100%	December
Remodels & repairs	170	3%	132	100%	February
Garages, sheds & shade structures	124	2%	87	93%	April
Demolition	119	2%	112	79%	September
Solar	112	2%	76	100%	February
Other	636	11%	524	0%	April

Fewer than 100 permits, so no row: additions (37), pools & spas (30).

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By year

Permits issued in each calendar year of the window. Per year scales a part year to 12 months.

Year	Months	Permits	Per year
2023 (from October)	3	804	3,216
2024	12	4,453	4,453
2025 (through January)	1	342	4,104

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By month

Permits issued each month, October 2023 through January 2025. The tallest bar is the busiest month on file.

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Month	Permits
Oct 2023	259
Nov 2023	254
Dec 2023	291
Jan 2024	257
Feb 2024	373
Mar 2024	350
Apr 2024	451
May 2024	395
Jun 2024	460
Jul 2024	481
Aug 2024	369
Sep 2024	339
Oct 2024	365
Nov 2024	276
Dec 2024	337
Jan 2025	342

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When each kind of work is filed

Permits by calendar month, 100 = an average month (the thin line), October 2023 through January 2025. Kinds of work do not all peak together. Each month is counted once, so one unusual month moves these numbers.

Electrical

1,374 permits · busiest July, quietest November

Plumbing

1,301 permits · busiest July, quietest November

HVAC

750 permits · busiest May, quietest November

Roofing

609 permits · busiest June, quietest January

New homes

337 permits · busiest December, quietest August

Remodels & repairs

170 permits · busiest February, quietest September

Garages, sheds & shade structures

124 permits · busiest April, quietest February

Demolition

119 permits · busiest September, quietest August

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Kind of work	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Electrical	86	127	102	135	112	155	171	115	84	75	66	72
Plumbing	86	101	93	123	113	128	155	107	85	90	79	93
HVAC	76	102	94	117	158	154	143	141	98	98	58	65
Roofing	59	97	108	116	139	144	105	129	121	117	80	64
New homes	135	104	128	128	28	57	71	24	76	69	85	202
Remodels & repairs	80	132	56	132	85	113	113	94	47	113	89	132
Garages, sheds & shade structures	103	65	129	168	65	90	155	103	77	84	90	97
Demolition	20	27	40	134	67	188	108	13	309	128	87	121

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Homes and everything else

How the city classed each permit. Other covers commercial buildings, signs, towers and similar work.

Permit class	Permits	Share	Last 12 mo
Homes (residential)	3,983	71%	3,207
Other	1,616	29%	1,331

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How many permits get finished

Permits issued Oct 2023–Jan 2024, so each has had at least 12 months to reach a final. Finished means the city recorded a final inspection or marked it complete. The file doesn't mark permits expired, so a lapsed permit still reads open.

Status	Permits	Share
Finished	410	38.6%
Still open	651	61.4%

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How Longview compares with other cities

From our cross-city data studies: the same measure, read the same way, for every city we cover.

54% finished of electrical permits a year or more old here, against 80% across 37 cities (5th lowest of 38). Permit completion rates by city →
46% still open of electrical permits a year after issue here, against 20% across 37 cities (5th most left open of 38). Permits still open after a year, by city →
Firms per city, how many are active and how many are new, across 53 cities. How many contractors each city has →
Busiest Jul, quietest Nov for permits here; see when each trade peaks in 50 cities. Busiest months for home projects, by city →

How these numbers are made

Source: City of Longview PermitDashboardData (ArcGIS feature layer), read 23 Oct 2026. We count permits issued October 2023 through January 2025; denied and withdrawn permits are left out.

Building, trade, re-roof, pool, demolition, sign and fire permits the City of Longview Development Services issues inside the city limits. Unincorporated Gregg and Harrison County and neighbouring towns such as White Oak, Kilgore and Hallsville run their own permit offices and are not in this file. Contractor registrations, certificates of occupancy, plan and site reviews and right-of-way permits in the same layer are not counted.

The city's layer names an applicant, usually a person and not the contractor of record, so we show no contractor lists, rankings or firm pages for Longview.
The city stopped updating this layer on 27 February 2025, so it ends with permits issued in January 2025, and a permit's status is as it stood on that date: some permits shown as issued have been finished since.
The layer starts in April 2023, but only a few permits a month were entered until October 2023, so the window starts in October 2023.
A permit counts as finished when the city marked it completed or final. The layer has no final inspection date, so it can't show how long a permit takes.
The value is the declared valuation on building permits. Electrical, plumbing, mechanical, pool and demolition permits and most re-roof permits carry no value.
The layer has no ZIP code, so there are no ZIP pages.

Counts are permits, not jobs: one job can need several permits. Nobody paid to be on this page and nobody can. Sources and definitions →

Cite this page

Free to reuse with attribution (CC BY 4.0). Please credit Contractor Records and link to this page. Suggested citation:

Contractor Records, "The City of Longview, TX building permit statistics", https://contractorrecords.com/longview/permit-statistics, data through January 2025, from the City of Longview Development Services Department building-permit records.

Link to a table: By kind of work · By year · By month · When each kind of work is filed · Homes and everything else · How many get finished.

Download the tables (CSV): Permits by kind of work · Permits by year · Permits by month · Permits by calendar month (index) · Homes and other permits · Finished, open and expired.

Common questions

How many building permits does Longview issue a year?About 4,199 a year in the City of Longview: 5,599 permits over 16 months, October 2023 through January 2025.
What is the busiest month for permits in Longview?July, counting every kind of work (137 against an average month of 100). November is the quietest (76). Each kind of work has its own season; the charts above show them.
What share of Longview permits are for homes?71%: 3,983 of the 5,599 permits issued October 2023 through January 2025 were residential permits.

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