Housing Market Dashboard
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX
CBSA 26420 — Pipeline, employment, demographics, and pricing metrics from federal public data sources.
Permits
9,359
Quarterly
Starts
10,134.7
Modeled
Under Construction
24,448.1
Stock
Completions
13,160.1
Modeled
Finished Vacant
0
Model floor · closings exceed completions
Latest Month
4,607
2025-12-01
Starts and completions are estimated using a permit-lag convolution model calibrated to NRC national totals. Quarterly starts may exceed same-quarter permits because the model distributes permit effects across subsequent months.
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
House Price Index
427.7
Q ending 2025-10-01
YoY HPI
-1.8%
4-quarter change
30-Yr Mortgage
6.01%
2026-02-19
FHFA House Price Index
30-Year Fixed Rate
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.
Latest data: permits through 2025-12-01, pipeline through 2025-10-01.