Updates: Daily
Coverage: City of Austin (Travis County)
What it is: Issued permits with type, class, stated valuation, status and location. ZIP pages count issued permits for the postal ZIP; neighborhood pages count permits within the stated radius. What it is not: A permit is not completed work, a certificate of occupancy or evidence of a home’s condition. Valuations are filing amounts.
Updates: Daily
Coverage: City of Austin development applications
What it is: Site-plan cases with case name, status, application date, proposed units and land use. What it is not: An application is a proposal, not an approval; other municipalities keep separate records.
Updates: Weekly
Coverage: City of Austin
What it is: Subdivision applications with lot counts and acreage where reported. What it is not: Not a platted-lot inventory or a guarantee that lots will be built or sold.
Updates: Weekly
Coverage: All 254 Texas counties; this site selects Austin-area ZIPs and filters reported county outliers
What it is: State accessibility registrations for construction projects over the statutory cost threshold, with scope, estimated cost and status. What it is not: Not a building permit, and estimated cost is a filing figure. Registration does not mean construction has started.
Updates: Monthly releases; each observation carries its own date
Coverage: Austin–Round Rock metro area and county series
What it is: Unemployment rate, labor force and metro building-permit and listing-price series with observation dates. What it is not: Regional indicators, not a description of a ZIP, a neighborhood or a property, and not a forecast.
Updates: Queried on request; FEMA publishes map revisions on its own schedule
Coverage: Effective flood hazard zones, nationwide
What it is: The flood zone, subtype and special-flood-hazard-area flag mapped at a point. What it is not: Not a parcel survey, elevation certificate or insurance determination. “Unmapped” and “unavailable” are different outcomes.
Updates: Queried on request; static 1:250,000 mapping
Coverage: Texas, 1:250,000 scale
What it is: The mapped geologic unit code and name at a point. What it is not: Not a soils report, foundation assessment or site-specific geotechnical study.
Updates: Queried on request; survey areas are updated by NRCS on their own schedule
Coverage: Soil survey map units, nationwide
What it is: Map unit name, dominant component, drainage class and hydrologic group at a point. What it is not: A map unit can contain several soils; it is not a test of the soil under a specific foundation.
311 service requests, code-compliance cases, food-establishment inspections and traffic crashes appear on our ZIP pages as one dated count line. Austin Texas Things publishes the ZIP-level breakdowns and owns that coverage.
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Project counts use source-reported ZIPs and exclude registrations identifying counties outside Travis, Williamson and Hays. Missing county and remaining address/ZIP mismatches require verification; this is not a spatial boundary audit. 35 ZIPs carry the dated snapshot totals; the remaining 12 are served by live records only and say so on the page.
A postal ZIP is not a neighborhood, city boundary or school-attendance zone. Search nearby streets and confirm the relevant jurisdiction.
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This is separate from the ZIP research snapshot. County names come from the listing source. Home search displays inventory timing; missing or stale source data must not be read as zero matching homes.
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