PermitBoardsPlumbing permits: where the work is — November 2026
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Every market PermitBoards covers publishes its issued permits as public records. This trade watch reads all of them for one lane: plumbing. Each market is counted over its own latest 30-day window of published records (windows end between Oct 30, 2026 and Nov 11, 2026, depending on the feed), and every number below is counted from those records — 1,872 plumbing permits in all.
Where the plumbing work concentrates
The busiest market is Fort Worth, TX. The top ten:
| Market | Plumbing permits | All permits in window |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Worth, TX | 389 | 1,008 |
| Minneapolis, MN | 332 | 465 |
| Austin, TX | 284 | 1,046 |
| Philadelphia, PA | 271 | 799 |
| San Antonio, TX | 115 | 491 |
| New Orleans, LA | 69 | 364 |
| Chicago, IL | 68 | 484 |
| Washington, DC | 58 | 681 |
| Norfolk, VA | 48 | 196 |
| Virginia Beach, VA | 41 | 240 |
A permit can count toward more than one trade lane when the work spans trades; lane totals here count a permit once for this lane.
The biggest plumbing jobs by published value
| Address | Filed | Published value |
|---|---|---|
| 400 N ABERDEEN ST | Nov 9, 2026 | $17,328,986 |
| 320 S CANAL ST | Nov 6, 2026 | $3,000,000 |
| 71 S WACKER DR | Nov 9, 2026 | $2,500,000 |
| 200 W ADAMS ST | Nov 9, 2026 | $2,500,000 |
| 300 S WACKER DR | Nov 6, 2026 | $1,300,000 |
Five of the newest plumbing permits anywhere
- ROXBURGH RD 76052 — Plumbing Backflow (Nov 11, 2026)
- FOREST GLEN LN 76244 — B1_WORK_DESC (Nov 11, 2026)
- PRIDDY LN 76114 — B1_WORK_DESC (Nov 11, 2026)
- SHADOW WOOD TRL 76028 — B1_WORK_DESC (Nov 11, 2026)
- NORMA ST 76112 — B1_WORK_DESC (Nov 11, 2026)
Plumbing contractors who subscribe get exactly their lane for their county — nothing else — every morning. The full lane, all markets, is on the plumbing permit page; published job values appear where a city's feed publishes them (361 of these 1,872 permits carry one, totaling $52,946,752).