Housing Market Dashboard

Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX

CBSA 26420 — Pipeline, employment, demographics, and pricing metrics from federal public data sources.

Construction Pipeline

Q ending 2025-01-01

Permits

4,180

Quarterly

Starts

3,948.2

Modeled

Under Construction

27,546.4

Stock

Completions

4,546.3

Modeled

Finished Vacant

-22,003.7

Modeled

Monthly Permits

5,731

2025-01-01

Building Permits

Census BPS · Monthly

Employment

BLS · Monthly

Total Nonfarm

3,494K

2025-12-01

Unemployment

4.2%

2025-12-01

YoY Job Growth

0.4%

12-month change

Total Nonfarm Payroll

Unemployment Rate

Prices & Rates

FHFA HPI · FRED

House Price Index

—

YoY HPI

—

4-quarter change

30-Yr Mortgage

6.01%

2026-02-19

No HPI data loaded.

30-Year Fixed Rate

Demographics

Census PEP · Annual

Population

7,796,182

2024 estimate

YoY Change

+198,171

Since 2023

Net Migration

+149,543

Domestic + international

Population Trend

Components of Change

Data sources: U.S. Census Bureau (BPS, PEP), Bureau of Labor Statistics (CES, LAUS), FHFA House Price Index, Freddie Mac via FRED, HMDA. Pipeline estimates use a permit-lag convolution model calibrated to NRC national totals. All data is publicly sourced.