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How long does a panel upgrade permit take in Austin?

In Austin, the typical panel upgrade permit took 6 days from application to issue, across 2,623 permits issued from September 2024 to September 2026. After the permit, the typical finished panel upgrade took 62 days from permit to final inspection (2,294 finished of 2,539 permits issued from September 2022 to September 2024; 10% had no final inspection on record by September 2026).

6 daysfrom application to permitMiddle half: 3 days to 11 days
62 daysfrom permit to final inspectionMiddle half: 20 days to 5 months

The two steps

How long panel upgrades take in Austin, in daysApplication to permit issued: median 6 days, middle half 3 to 11 days, 2,623 permits; Permit issued to final inspection: median 62 days, middle half 20 to 140 days, 2,294 permits.Application to permit issued: 6 daysPermit issued to final inspection: 62 days01 mo2 mo3 mo4 mo
Bars show the median; the line through each bar spans the middle half of jobs. The second step starts where the typical permit wait ends. The two steps come from different groups of permits, so they are not added up.
The numbers behind the chart
StepMedianMiddle halfPermitsPermits issued
Application to permit issued6 days3 days to 11 days2,623September 2024 to September 2026
Permit to final inspection62 days20 days to about 5 months2,294September 2022 to September 2024

Panel upgrade electricians with the most jobs in Austin

RankContractorJobsContact
1Jonestown Electrical Solutions LLC
334
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2Salt Light & Electric
300
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3Service Company of San Antonio LLC Dba Mr Electric of Austin
184
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Permit wait by year issued

Year issuedJobsMedianMiddle half
20223164 days2 days to 9 days
20231,3625 days2 days to 10 days
20241,1286 days3 days to 12 days
20251,2546 days3 days to 12 days
20261,1024 days2 days to 8 days

Why it takes this long

  • 2% of permits were issued the day they were applied for, and 91% within 30 days (2,623 permits).
  • 2 more permits issued in those dates carry no application date and are left out of the permit wait.
  • The longer step is building and inspection: 6 days for the permit against 62 days from permit to final, at the median.
  • 60% of finished jobs passed final inspection within 90 days of the permit.
  • Of the 2,539 permits issued from September 2022 to September 2024, 245 (10%) had no final inspection on record by September 2026. They may still be under way, dropped or never inspected; the records do not say which. They are left out of the build time; any of them that finishes will have taken more than two years, so counting them would make the typical time longer.

Days are counted between the dates on each city permit: applieddate, issue_date, completed_date. Median and middle half: half of the jobs took longer than the median; the middle half runs from the 25th to the 75th percentile. A figure is shown only when it rests on 30 or more permits. Kinds of work are sorted by the same rules as our contractor lists. Source: Austin Issued Construction Permits (data.austintexas.gov 3syk-w9eu), read 2026-09-24. The same figures as data: electrical-panel.json.