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How long does a pool permit take in Austin?

In Austin, the typical pool permit took 66 days from application to issue, across 1,804 permits issued from September 2024 to September 2026. After the permit, the typical finished pool or spa took about 9 months (269 days) from permit to final inspection (1,393 finished of 1,783 permits issued from September 2022 to September 2024; 22% had no final inspection on record by September 2026).

66 daysfrom application to permitMiddle half: 37 days to 5 months
9 monthsfrom permit to final inspectionMiddle half: 5 months to 14 months

The two steps

How long pools and spas take in Austin, in daysApplication to permit issued: median 66 days, middle half 37 to 145 days, 1,804 permits; Permit issued to final inspection: median 269 days, middle half 161 to 435 days, 1,393 permits.Application to permit issued: 66 daysPermit issued to final inspection: about 9 months06 mo12 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 issued66 days37 days to about 5 months1,804September 2024 to September 2026
Permit to final inspectionabout 9 monthsabout 5 months to about 14 months1,393September 2022 to September 2024

Pool builders with the most jobs in Austin

RankContractorJobsContact
1Cody Pools, Inc.
506
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2Denali Pools LLC
211
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3Paradisa Homes, LLC
182
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Permit wait by year issued

Year issuedJobsMedianMiddle half
2022265about 3 months45 days to about 6 months
202387790 days50 days to about 7 months
202482778 days39 days to about 6 months
202586973 days43 days to about 5 months
202674860 days31 days to about 4 months

Why it takes this long

  • 0% of permits were issued the day they were applied for, and 20% within 30 days (1,804 permits).
  • The longer step is building and inspection: 66 days for the permit against about 9 months from permit to final, at the median.
  • 8% of finished jobs passed final inspection within 90 days of the permit.
  • Of the 1,783 permits issued from September 2022 to September 2024, 390 (22%) 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: pool.json.