59 Permits in 78745: Austin ZIP Report — June 2026

ZIP 78745 recorded 59 residential building permits over the May 11 – June 9, 2026 reporting window — enough to put this stretch of South Austin at the very top of the city's ZIP-level table, directly alongside 78704. This report breaks down what those permits are, what kinds of jobs sit behind them, and how the ZIP stacks up against the rest of the city.

Every figure here is a ZIP-level slice of the same sealed daily snapshots behind our full Austin building permit report. Scope: residential building permits (single-family and small multi-family); commercial and sub-trade permits are excluded at ingest. This is not a count of all construction permits issued in the city.

Key Findings

• ZIP 78745 logged 59 residential building permits in the May 11 – June 9, 2026 window, according to City of Austin issued construction permits via data.austintexas.gov (Socrata).

• Renovation & Remodel leads the ZIP with 24 permits, according to US Tech Automations' sealed permit snapshots.

• 78704 tops Austin's ZIP table at 60 permits, with 78745 immediately behind at 59, per the same sealed snapshots.

• Austin issued 704 residential permits citywide over the 30-day window, according to City of Austin issued construction permits via data.austintexas.gov (Socrata).

• Austin ranks #3 of 8 metros by permit volume in this edition, according to the sealed cross-metro snapshot set.

How 78745 Compares in Austin

The fastest way to read this ZIP is against its neighbors. Here is the city's top of the table for the window, with the citywide total as the anchor row.

78704 leads Austin's ZIP table at 60 residential permits for May 11 – June 9, 2026; 78745 sits directly behind it at 59.

The race at the top is effectively a dead heat. ZIP 78704 covers the inner-south neighborhoods closest to downtown — Bouldin Creek, Travis Heights, the Zilker area — where lot values are high and teardown-rebuild and major remodel work is a way of life. We cover that market in detail in the 78704 ZIP report. That 78745, a ring further out, generates essentially the same permit volume is the most interesting fact in this table.

The southeast corridor tells a different story. ZIP 78744, profiled in our 78744 ZIP report, posted 52 permits, with 78747 at 33 and Del Valle's 78617 at 30. These ZIPs contain Austin's active master-planned and subdivision frontier — places like Easton Park and the Onion Creek area — where the housing stock skews new and the available land skews greenfield.

West-central Austin rounds out the table: 78731, home to Northwest Hills, logged 42 permits, and 78703 — Tarrytown and Clarksville — logged 41. Both are older, affluent areas where the housing stock is mature and valuable, the kind of profile that tends to produce renovation and addition work rather than volume subdivision building.

What does 78745's position imply? This is a fully built-out ZIP with little to no greenfield land. Sustained permit volume here is not driven by new subdivisions — it is driven by owners reinvesting in existing houses, street by street. For anyone selling remodel services, that is a more durable demand signal than a single large development would be.

This is also why ZIP-level cuts matter more than citywide totals for anyone actually working the market. A citywide number averages together greenfield subdivisions, dense urban-core remodels, and quiet outlying tracts that behave nothing alike. The table above separates those markets cleanly, and the kind of business you should run in 78745 looks very different from the one you would run in 78617.

ZIP 78745 Permit Activity, May 11 – June 9, 2026

A volume of 59 residential permits in a single 30-day window is a steady drumbeat for one ZIP code, and it comes without a single large project skewing the picture: this is a wide distribution of individual households deciding, independently, to pull a permit. The mix is led by Renovation & Remodel work, with the remainder spread across new single-family construction, additions, and other residential categories.

Note the em dash in the valuation row. Austin's open-data feed does not publish usable project costs for the residential permits we track, so this report makes no claims about dollar volume — not for the ZIP, and not for the city. The Methodology section explains exactly how we handle that.

One reading note: these are issued permits, not applications. A permit that appears in this window may represent a project scoped and submitted weeks or months earlier, finally clearing review. Issuance is still the right thing to count — it is the moment a project becomes legally buildable, and the cleanest, most comparable event a public feed records — but treat it as the starting gun for construction, not the moment a homeowner first decided to build.

What Is Getting Built in 78745

ZIP 78745 is the heart of middle South Austin: Westgate, Cherry Creek, South Manchaca, and Garrison Park. The housing stock is dominated by modest postwar and midcentury ranch houses on slab foundations — single-story homes with attached garages or carports, built in large tracts when this was the city's southern edge. Those houses are now decades into their service lives, sitting on land worth far more than when they were built.

That combination is a remodel machine, and the data reflects it. The ZIP's top permit category for the window is the City of Austin's raw label R- 435 Renovations/Remodel / Repair — the Renovation & Remodel bucket — with 24 permits.

Renovation & Remodel accounts for 24 of 78745's 59 permits — the same category that leads Austin citywide with 226.

What actually sits behind that label? In Austin, a residential remodel or repair permit is triggered when work goes beyond cosmetics: kitchen and bath gut renovations, removing or altering interior walls, converting a garage into living space, repairing structural or foundation damage, and substantial re-works of a home's envelope. Painting, flooring, and like-for-like fixture swaps generally do not require one — so each of these permits represents a real construction project with a budget, a contractor decision, and weeks or months of work behind it.

Who pulls them? Mostly general contractors and specialist remodelers acting on behalf of owners, though Austin also allows homeowners to pull permits on their own homestead. In a ranch-stock ZIP like this, the archetypal jobs are opening up closed midcentury floor plans, primary-suite additions and bathroom expansions, and garage conversions that add living space without adding footprint — the standard playbook for families who would rather renovate than buy elsewhere in this market.

For context, here is how the residential categories break down citywide:

Citywide, remodels and new single-family construction run nearly even at the top, with additions forming a clear third lane. 78745's profile leans on the remodel side of that mix, which fits its housing stock: there is little vacant land here to put a new house on, but tens of thousands of aging ranch homes to upgrade. For a citywide deep dive on this category, see our Austin renovation and remodel report.

The addition lane deserves a note for this ZIP in particular. The citywide R- 434 Addition & Alterations / Addition and Remodel category — 102 permits across Austin — captures projects that expand a home's footprint, often while remodeling the existing structure at the same time. In ranch neighborhoods like Westgate and Garrison Park, an addition is the usual escape valve when a remodel alone cannot produce the extra bedroom or second living area a growing household needs, and the modest lot sizes typical of postwar plats usually leave room to build one.

Methodology

Every number in this report is a ZIP-level slice of the sealed metro snapshot behind our Austin coverage — the same rows, cut by ZIP code, with nothing added. The source is City of Austin issued construction permits via data.austintexas.gov (Socrata).

All figures are computed directly from US Tech Automations' sealed daily permit snapshots; nothing is estimated, modeled, or extrapolated.

One important caveat on valuations: Austin's open-data feed publishes $0 or blank project costs on the residential permits we track; we normalize those to missing rather than report a literal $0, so no valuation aggregates are given for Austin or any of its ZIP slices.

For cross-metro context: this edition covers 8 metros and 7,334 residential permits in total, of which 6,171 carry usable valuations — 84% coverage, totaling $688.3M — with Austin contributing permit counts but no dollar figures. This edition is cross-sectional only: it describes a single window and makes no trend or comparison-to-past claims. The same sealing discipline — snapshot first, outcomes later — powers our permit prediction ledger.

How the pipeline runs:

1. Collect. Pull issued residential permits daily from data.austintexas.gov via the Socrata API, restricted to single-family and small multi-family building permits.

2. Normalize. Map raw category labels to a common schema, deduplicate records, and convert blank or zero-dollar project costs to missing values rather than treating them as real.

3. Seal. Hash each day's snapshot into a content-addressed, append-only store; sealed files are never edited after the fact.

4. Aggregate. Compute citywide totals and ZIP-level slices over the May 11 – June 9, 2026 window directly from the sealed rows.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Does this report count every construction permit in this ZIP?
A: No. It covers residential building permits (single-family and small multi-family); commercial and sub-trade permits — electrical, plumbing, mechanical — are excluded at ingest. The 59 figure is best read as the number of distinct residential construction projects that reached permit issuance during the window, not total city permitting activity.

Q: Why are there no dollar figures for this ZIP?
A: Because Austin's open-data feed publishes blank or zero-dollar project costs on the residential permits we track. We normalize those to missing rather than report a literal zero, so no valuation totals or medians appear for Austin or its ZIP slices. Reporting them would mean publishing numbers we know are wrong.

Q: What kind of work sits behind the Renovation & Remodel label?
A: The raw City of Austin category is R- 435 Renovations/Remodel / Repair, and it accounts for 24 of the ZIP's 59 permits. Typical jobs include kitchen and bath renovations, interior wall removal and floor-plan changes, garage conversions, and structural or foundation repairs — work substantial enough to require plan review, not cosmetic updates.

Q: Who typically pulls these permits?
A: Mostly licensed general contractors and remodeling firms on behalf of homeowners. Austin also permits owners to pull their own permits on a homestead they occupy. In a built-out, ranch-house ZIP like this, the permit holders are overwhelmingly working on occupied single-family homes rather than speculative projects.

Q: How fresh is the underlying data?
A: Snapshots are collected and sealed every day; this report aggregates the 30-day window of May 11 – June 9, 2026. Because the edition is cross-sectional, it makes no claims about whether activity is rising or falling — it documents the window exactly as the sealed records show it.

Put Permit Data to Work

A ZIP that produces 59 residential permits in a single window — led by remodels — is a working market, and several kinds of businesses can act on that. Remodeling contractors can qualify streets and neighborhoods where permit activity clusters before spending on marketing. Building-material suppliers can time inventory and outside sales against real project starts. Lenders can read renovation demand block by block, and real-estate agents can treat remodel permits as early pre-listing signals worth a conversation.

The hard part is not the insight — it is the plumbing. US Tech Automations turns sealed permit signals into automated workflows: monitoring new permits as they land, routing the right ones to the right rep, and drafting first-touch outreach for human review. You can explore the underlying data yourself at permits.ustechautomations.com, and if you want this wired into your own pipeline, contact us and we will walk through what a permit-driven workflow looks like for your trade.

Source: US Tech Automations Research — computed from sealed daily permit snapshots, May 11 – June 9, 2026.