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How long does a heat pump permit take in Austin?

In Austin, the typical heat pump permit took 5 days from application to issue, across 595 permits issued from September 2024 to September 2026. After the permit, the typical finished heat pump installation took 46 days from permit to final inspection (135 finished of 189 permits issued from October 2022 to September 2024; 29% had no final inspection on record by September 2026).

5 daysfrom application to permitMiddle half: 2 days to 10 days
46 daysfrom permit to final inspectionMiddle half: 20 days to 3 months

The two steps

How long heat pump installations take in Austin, in daysApplication to permit issued: median 5 days, middle half 2 to 10 days, 595 permits; Permit issued to final inspection: median 46 days, middle half 20 to 94 days, 135 permits.Application to permit issued: 5 daysPermit issued to final inspection: 46 days01 mo2 mo3 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 issued5 days2 days to 10 days595September 2024 to September 2026
Permit to final inspection46 days20 days to about 3 months135October 2022 to September 2024

Heat pump installers with the most jobs in Austin

RankContractorJobsContact
1Stan's Heating, Air, Plumbing, & Electrical
204
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2Radiant Plumbing and Air Conditioning
94
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3Mccullough Heating & Air
86
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Permit wait by year issued

Year issuedJobsMedianMiddle half
2023884 days2 days to 10 days
20241317 days3 days to 14 days
20252816 days3 days to 12 days
20262703 days2 days to 7 days

Why it takes this long

  • 4% of permits were issued the day they were applied for, and 90% within 30 days (595 permits).
  • The longer step is building and inspection: 5 days for the permit against 46 days from permit to final, at the median.
  • 74% of finished jobs passed final inspection within 90 days of the permit.
  • Of the 189 permits issued from October 2022 to September 2024, 54 (29%) 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: heat-pump.json.