Texas Building Permit Fees by County and City (2026)
Building, electrical, plumbing, mechanical/HVAC, and roofing permit fees for 8 covered jurisdictions across 1 county, every figure from the jurisdiction's official fee schedule with a source citation and last-verified date. Pick a county below, or a city inside it.
Permit Fees by County in Texas
The same jobs, priced by each county's covered jurisdictions from their own fee schedules. Among value-priced schedules, a building permit for a $50,000 remodel runs from $35.00 (Unincorporated Harris County) to $315.00 (Baytown).
| County | Jurisdictions | Unincorporated county ($50k remodel) | All jurisdictions ($50k remodel) | Roofing permit ($20k re-roof) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harris County | 8 | $35.00 | $10.00 to $871.50 | $10.00 to $322.79 |
The unincorporated column is the county's own schedule, which applies outside city limits; ranges span every covered jurisdiction in the county. Each figure is that single permit for the stated job, surcharges and minimum fees included, from the sourced schedule; where a schedule prices by area, figures assume a 200 sq ft remodel area or a 2,000 sq ft (20-square) roof. "n/a" means the fee is not documented in our sourced data. Open a county for the per-jurisdiction figures.
In Texas, permit fees are set city by city: each city adopts its own fee schedule in its code of ordinances or a consolidated fee schedule, and revises it on its own cycle. There is no statewide fee table, so the same project can be priced very differently from one city to the next across the Houston area.
Texas law bars cities from pricing residential building permits on the value of the home or the cost of the work, so most residential building fees are flat or priced per square foot, while commercial permits are often still priced from construction valuation. Electrical, plumbing and mechanical permits are usually priced separately, per fixture, unit, or as a flat fee.
How Texas permit fees work
Texas cities adopt their building permit fees by council ordinance, usually inside a fee chapter of the code of ordinances or a citywide fee schedule, and update them on their own cycle. The permitting jurisdiction is whoever issues the permit: the city inside its limits. Texas counties cannot charge building-code permit fees, so construction outside city limits is inspected by third-party inspectors the builder hires; large counties such as Harris County instead require a flat development permit and, for commercial buildings, fire code review.
Texas adds no statewide surcharge to local permit fees, so the total is the city's own permit fee plus its plan review, technology, or application charges. Minimum permit fees mean small jobs often cost more than the rate table alone suggests. Every page here cites its official source and shows the date we last verified it.
Covered counties & cities
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All 9 Texas counties
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