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Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land growth and development

Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land industrial demand intelligence

Track housing, employment, infrastructure, retail, and other growth signals shaping industrial demand across Houston.

Market development snapshot

Houston

Housing is measured in dwelling units; industrial in projects; other demand in leads. The measures are never added together.
Housing units authorized in 202565,198
June 20264,773 authorized units

U.S. Census Bureau Building Permits Survey · Metro-wide authorization benchmark, shown separately from the identified project pipeline.

What is tracked
Completed
Current
Planned
Residential dwelling unitsTotal pipeline: 34,892 current + planned units
3,532units completed within 24 months
26,685units currently in development
8,207planned units
Industrial + small bayCertified active minimum: 382 projects
238ILMS completions within 24 months
382explicitly current projects
Not publishedseparate planned cohort
Other demandGrowth and demand leads
33724-month leads
7,471leads
524leads
1,329 older Houston records are held outside the active totalThe earlier 490-project baseline and 839-project recovery remain available for audit, but they are not represented as active pipeline. The review found 54 trade/system permits counted as separate baseline projects, only 763 of 945 recovery rows passing the latest work-scope gate, and 36 Harris records with passed final inspections.
City of Houston ILMS added 382 current projects and 238 recent completions1,468 non-overlapping reviewed identities were found in all: 382 current, 238 completed within 24 months, 354 older completions, and 494 terminal or inactive. Only current projects enter the active pipeline. The full reviewed set carries 47,539,167 source-stated SF and $3.3B stated value.
269 current small-bay projects in the certified minimumThe ILMS update contributes 269 current small-bay projects. Across every ILMS lifecycle, 968 new small-bay identities were reviewed; completed and inactive identities are context and are not added to active supply.

Residential accounting: Under-development and planned units are displayed separately. Their explicitly labeled total pipeline is 34,892 units; recently completed units are historical context and are not added to it.

Industrial accounting: Houston now publishes the 382-project City ILMS current cohort as a measured minimum. Two older cohorts totaling 1,329 records are nonadditive and remain withheld until work scope, duplicates, and completion evidence are reconciled. The August 27 ILMS source has an exact lifecycle split: 382 current projects enter current supply and 238 recent completions enter completed history; older and terminal/inactive records remain outside active supply. The Project Building Category filter values 1, 3, and B were supplied without a code definition, so this remains a measured source floor.

Measurement note: Census authorizations, residential pipeline units, industrial projects, and other-demand leads are separate views. “None identified” applies only to the current reviewed industrial or demand layer and does not mean no market activity.

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