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The City of San Marcos, TX building permits

Data through September 2026 · updated 20 Oct 2026

4,116 building permits were issued in the City of San Marcos from October 2024 to September 2026, about 2,058 a year. New home permits lead with 1,313, then plumbing (396) and HVAC (364). 59% were for homes. The city's file doesn't name contractors, so we can't rank, compare or profile firms here: these pages show what was built and when.

4,116permits issued
2,058a year
59%for homes
75%finished (Oct 2024–Sep 2025 permits)
Sep 2026records through

What gets built here

New homes

1,313permits
566last 12 mo

Plumbing

396permits
190last 12 mo

HVAC

364permits
201last 12 mo

Electrical

323permits
131last 12 mo

What this page can and can't show

  • ✓Permits the city issued, by kind of work and month.
  • ✓Which permits finished, are still open or expired.
  • Who did the work. The city's file doesn't name contractors, so we can't rank, compare or profile firms here.
  • How long a permit takes to final. The file has too few final dates.
  • What the job cost. The file carries no job value.
  • Where, by ZIP code. The file carries no usable ZIP code.
  • Street addresses or owners. We publish counts and permit rows without them.

Building and trade permits the City of San Marcos, Texas issues inside city limits: new homes and commercial buildings, remodels, additions, pools, fences, decks, solar, demolition, plumbing, mechanical, electrical, sign and fire-system permits. Lawn irrigation, right-of-way, road closure, special event, watershed, site and grading permits, Texas State University and city projects, and certificates of occupancy in the same file are not counted. Kyle, Buda, New Braunfels and unincorporated Hays, Caldwell and Guadalupe counties run their own permit offices and are not in this file, and neither is San Marcos, California.

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Permits by kind of work

Permits issued October 2024 through September 2026, every kind of work with 100 or more. Last 12 months is Oct 2025–Sep 2026. Homes is the share issued as residential permits.

Kind of workPermitsShareLast 12 mo
New homes1,31332%566
Plumbing39610%190
HVAC3649%201
Electrical3238%131
Other1,29832%783

Fewer than 100 permits, so no row: garages, sheds & shade structures (87), fences & walls (87), demolition (61), remodels & repairs (54), pools & spas (49), solar (47), additions (28), roofing (5), ADUs & casitas (4).

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San Marcos permit statistics →San Marcos, TX building permit search: MyPermitNow and the city's permit map →

Guides for San Marcos

Local permit rules and lookups, each with San Marcos's own permit numbers.

Nearby permit data

Permit data for other places in Austin and San Antonio. Each permit office keeps its own file, so the numbers are not added together.

Austin, TXNew Braunfels, TXSan Antonio, TX

How these numbers are made

Source: City of San Marcos GIS: CoSM BuildingPermits (Planning/CoSM_BuildingPermits FeatureServer layer 0, from MyPermitNow), read 20 Oct 2026. We count permits issued October 2024 through September 2026; denied and withdrawn permits are left out.

Building and trade permits the City of San Marcos, Texas issues inside city limits: new homes and commercial buildings, remodels, additions, pools, fences, decks, solar, demolition, plumbing, mechanical, electrical, sign and fire-system permits. Lawn irrigation, right-of-way, road closure, special event, watershed, site and grading permits, Texas State University and city projects, and certificates of occupancy in the same file are not counted. Kyle, Buda, New Braunfels and unincorporated Hays, Caldwell and Guadalupe counties run their own permit offices and are not in this file, and neither is San Marcos, California.

  • The city's file names no contractor, so there are no contractor lists, rankings or firm pages for San Marcos.
  • The file has no final inspection date, so we show no time to final. A permit counts as finished when the city marks it completed; a dormant permit counts as expired.
  • The file has no job value and no ZIP code we can publish, so we show no costs and no ZIP code pages.
  • New homes are the city's new residential permits for single-family homes, duplexes and townhouses; separate foundation-only permits for the same houses count as other, and so do new apartment buildings.
  • Lawn irrigation permits (about one per new house) are not counted. Roofing permits are rare in the file.

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

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Contractor Records, "The City of San Marcos, TX building permits", https://contractorrecords.com/san-marcos/, data through September 2026, from City of San Marcos Planning & Development Services, Building Division building-permit records.

Link to a table: By kind of work · Browse the permits · Permits each month.

Download the tables (CSV): Permits by kind of work · Permits in the last 12 months.

Common questions

  • How many building permits does San Marcos issue a year?About 2,058 a year in the City of San Marcos: 4,116 permits issued October 2024 through September 2026, 2,108 of them in the last 12 months. That counts the permits the city issued, homes and commercial, not denied or withdrawn applications.
  • Can I find a contractor's permits in San Marcos?Not from this file: the city publishes its permits without the contractor's name, so we can't list or rank firms. Ask the contractor for the permit number of a past job.
  • What do people build most in San Marcos?New homes: 1,313 of the 4,116 permits (32%), then plumbing (396), HVAC (364), October 2024 through September 2026.
  • How do I look up a building permit in San Marcos?Filter the permit list on this page by month, kind of work to see what was issued. For one property's permits, search the city's own records by address or permit number; we don't publish addresses. How to look up a permit in San Marcos →
  • How many permits were issued in San Marcos last month?150 in September 2026, the last full month on file; 2,108 over the last 12 months.

Browse the permits

Browse 4,116 permits

Every permit in the file issued October 2024 through September 2026, newest first. Pick a month, a kind of work or a status. Each row is one permit: no street address, no names.

The list loads as you reach it (4,116 permits).

IssuedKind of workCity permit typeStatus

Permits each month, the last 12 months

Permits issued each month and the kind of work with the most. A month opens its permits in the list above.

MonthPermitsTop kind of work
Sep 2026150HVAC (31)
Aug 2026162New homes (64)
Jul 2026209New homes (71)
Jun 2026163New homes (61)
May 2026119New homes (36)
Apr 2026172New homes (62)
Mar 2026151New homes (39)
Feb 2026158New homes (35)
Jan 2026198New homes (34)
Dec 2025226New homes (67)
Nov 2025219New homes (29)
Oct 2025181New homes (37)

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