Texas contractor market
Contractor market in Texas: permits, companies, and trade benchmarks
Texas logged 1.5M permit records in 2023, the last fully reported year, up +3.7% from 2022. There are 34,454 HVAC/plumbing/electrical companies in the state, with 4,352 in the $1-25M revenue band. Largest metro: Dallas-Fort Worth.
1.5M
Permit records 2023
+3.7% over 2022
39K
Contractors tracked
All trades
4,352
ICP companies ($1-25M)
Fractional-CFO target
22 yrs
Avg company age
Established market
Trade-by-trade breakdown, Texas
HVAC in Texas
Contractors
3,500
Median job
$12,884
Top 25%
$109,833
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Plumbing in Texas
Contractors
2,400
Median job
$2,905
Top 25%
$49,702
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Electrical in Texas
Contractors
5,200
Median job
$5,619
Top 25%
$47,951
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Roofing in Texas
Contractors
1,500
Median job
$43,201
Top 25%
$222,361
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Permit data from public county and state building-permit records (73.7M property records, over 400M permit records, 2022-2024). Contractor density from public company records (494M company locations). Operating benchmarks from Level's proprietary contractor benchmark dataset (2,242 contractors, $13.25B in job revenue). See the full Level Index.