Harris County is a market unto itself
More than 42,500 tracked property records and 213,000 tenant observations sit inside the county.
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SpanVor Industrial Data Atlas / Houston
Houston industrial, one enormous core and several different markets.
Houston combines port logistics, manufacturing, distribution, service businesses and neighborhood-scale small-bay space in one sprawling market. The useful view starts with Harris County’s extraordinary scale, then separates the coastal, northern and western edges that serve very different users.
- Industrial property records
- 47,2078-county market definition
- Small-bay property records
- 35,974Inventory classification, not availability
- Active pipeline minimum
- 382269 in the small-bay universe
- Identified housing pipeline
- 34,89226,685 current + 8,207 planned
What stands out
The useful story begins below the metro average.
Harris County contains about nine in ten tracked market records and more than 1.7 billion square feet of known building area. Galveston, Montgomery, Fort Bend and Chambers are much smaller by count, but they reveal where the market shifts from dense local-service inventory toward port, growth-corridor and large-site industrial uses.
The active minimum is meaningful
The current reviewed cohort contains 382 industrial projects, including 269 confirmed or probable small-bay projects.
Unknown does not get promoted
Another 1,329 older project identities remain outside the active total until their work scope and lifecycle can be reconciled.
County inventory
The physical base behind the market.
Property records are not one-for-one buildings or available suites. Building area and tenant observations help reveal the operating scale behind each county count.
| Rank | County | Property records | Small-bay records | Known building SF | Tenant records |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HarrisFIPS 48201 | 42,579 | 32,853 | 1.8B | 213,282 |
| 2 | GalvestonFIPS 48167 | 1,828 | 1,654 | 47.3M | 5,126 |
| 3 | MontgomeryFIPS 48339 | 966 | 773 | 23.9M | 1,562 |
| 4 | ChambersFIPS 48071 | 855 | 174 | 18.2M | 12 |
| 5 | Fort BendFIPS 48157 | 476 | 341 | 23.3M | 516 |
| 6 | WallerFIPS 48473 | 255 | 87 | 7.1M | 66 |
| 7 | BrazoriaFIPS 48039 | 194 | 62 | 5.4M | 25 |
| 8 | LibertyFIPS 48291 | 54 | 30 | 1.2M | 10 |
What comes next
Supply evidence and demand context, with the lifecycle visible.
Measured minimum from the City of Houston ILMS cohort with an explicit lifecycle split. The 1,329 records in two older Houston cohorts are retained as audit-pending evidence and are not represented as active pipeline until their work scope and lifecycle are reconciled.
- 382 industrial projects in the active minimum
- 382 are explicitly current and 0 explicitly planned.
- 269 small-bay projects
- Confirmed and probable small-bay projects inside the published market estimate. This product lens separates local bay supply from large-box industrial development.
- 34,892 identified housing units
- 26,685 under development plus 8,207 planned. Housing is practical demand context for local operators; it is not a direct bay-absorption forecast.
Known active building area: about 13M square feet is source-stated for the published active cohort. Projects without usable square footage remain in the project count but outside this area total.
Held outside the active total: 1,329 additional project identities remain available for audit rather than being quietly promoted into the headline.
Inventory coverage
Enough scale to be useful. Clear limits where they matter.
37,298 of 47,207 records carry usable building area, or 79.0%. Tenant observations cover 33,632 property records.
Project detailHouston Supply
Review the current public industrial-development lens.
Open Supply →Growth contextHouston DemandFollow housing and other local development signals.
Open Demand →State comparisonTexas industrial dataPlace this market inside the statewide property and county picture.
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A market profile built to be reused.
The files keep existing inventory, industrial development evidence and residential demand context in separate rows with their own dates and labels.
Houston public aggregate.
Exact project records, addresses, ownership, contacts and source documents remain outside the public file.
SpanVor. “Houston Industrial Market.” SpanVor Industrial Data Atlas, inventory through 2026-08-21; development evidence through 2026-08-27; housing evidence through 2026-09-02. https://spanvor.com/markets/houston