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

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

Step	Median	Middle half	Permits	Permits issued
Application to permit issued	66 days	37 days to about 5 months	1,804	September 2024 to September 2026
Permit to final inspection	about 9 months	about 5 months to about 14 months	1,393	September 2022 to September 2024

Pool builders with the most jobs in Austin

Rank	Contractor	Jobs	Contact
1	Cody Pools, Inc.	504	Get a quote
2	Denali Pools LLC	211	Get a quote
3	Paradisa Homes, LLC	182	Get a quote

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Permit wait by year issued

Year issued	Jobs	Median	Middle half
2022	265	about 3 months	45 days to about 6 months
2023	877	90 days	50 days to about 7 months
2024	827	78 days	39 days to about 6 months
2025	869	73 days	43 days to about 5 months
2026	748	60 days	31 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.