Texas in 2015 home price index and building permits for one year

FHFA annual index 2014 to 2015
Permits in 2015

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The FHFA annual house price index for Texas increased by 6.7% from 2014 to 2015. In the same years, the index for the United States increased by 4.4%. Building permits in the state authorized 175,443 housing units in 2015. 105,448 of the units are in buildings with one unit.

The FHFA HPI® is a broad measure of the movement of single-family house prices. The FHFA HPI® is a weighted, repeat-sales index, meaning that it measures average price changes in repeat sales or refinancings on the same properties.
Source: Federal Housing Finance Agency, FHFA House Price Index, "What does the FHFA HPI® represent?". The site copied the text on 2 Oct 2026.

FHFA about the annual indexes of small areas: We use the all-transactions data but construct indexes on a yearly basis to provide data for very small geographic areas like counties, ZIP codes, and census tracts. FHFA FAQs, question 5

FHFA's name for the file of this index: Counties (Developmental Index; Not Seasonally Adjusted). FHFA revises earlier values of its index in each period: FHFA FAQs, question 13.

Annual index through 2025, from the FHFA release of 31 Mar 2026.

Counties in 2015

Counties of Texas in 2015, by name: change of the FHFA annual county index from 2014 to 2015, and housing units authorized in 2015
County	Index change	Units authorized	In buildings with 1 unit
Anderson County	+5.7%	7	7
Andrews County	+6.6%	22	22
Angelina County	+3.0%	54	54
Aransas County	+9.2%	179	177
Archer County	+1.0%	6	6
Atascosa County	+3.5%	43	43
Austin County	+5.9%	19	19
Bandera County	+11.8%	0	0
Bastrop County	+6.6%	127	113
Bee County	+1.4%	7	7
Bell County	+2.9%	2,042	1,680
Bexar County	+6.9%	4,404	3,294
Blanco County	+13.0%	10	10
Bosque County	+2.3%	5	1
Bowie County	+1.4%	285	25
Brazoria County	+7.9%	3,365	2,975
Brazos County	+7.8%	1,616	1,131
Brewster County	+2.9%	11	4
Brown County	+2.9%	126	66
Burleson County	+7.2%	9	3
Burnet County	+5.5%	307	305
Caldwell County	+6.3%	268	268
Calhoun County	−1.2%	81	69
Callahan County	−1.9%	4	4
Cameron County	+3.9%	1,285	1,129
Camp County	+2.2%	8	8
Carson County	0.0%	7	7
Cass County	−0.7%	16	16
Chambers County	+7.4%	317	317
Cherokee County	+2.1%	5	5
Clay County	−4.8%	2	2
Collin County	+10.2%	14,137	7,878
Colorado County	+8.1%	5	5
Comal County	+6.9%	1,742	1,670
Comanche County	−1.0%	0	0
Cooke County	+7.3%	40	40
Coryell County	+0.1%	250	142
Dallam County	+4.9%	20	20
Dallas County	+9.4%	21,698	4,806
Dawson County	−6.3%	0	0
Deaf Smith County	−3.5%	10	2
Delta County	n/a	3	3
Denton County	+9.0%	7,887	6,594
DeWitt County	+10.0%	13	13
Eastland County	+8.0%	0	0
Ector County	+5.2%	612	468
El Paso County	+1.0%	4,491	2,518
Ellis County	+7.3%	1,337	1,327
Erath County	+3.2%	218	30
Falls County	+10.3%	5	5
Fannin County	+4.0%	21	11
Fayette County	+1.4%	8	8
Fort Bend County	+9.6%	9,278	9,096
Franklin County	+1.5%	1	1
Freestone County	+0.4%	3	3
Gaines County	+1.1%	1	1
Galveston County	+7.3%	2,447	2,372
Gillespie County	+9.7%	41	41
Goliad County	−6.2%	3	3
Gonzales County	+9.9%	18	18
Gray County	+2.9%	2	2
Grayson County	+5.5%	340	322
Gregg County	+2.6%	229	206
Grimes County	+2.1%	17	17
Guadalupe County	+7.1%	1,313	1,197
Hale County	+3.4%	16	16
Hamilton County	−8.9%	6	6
Hansford County	+3.4%	3	3
Hardin County	+4.2%	232	229
Harris County	+7.9%	33,975	16,721
Harrison County	+0.4%	54	34
Hartley County	−1.5%	0	0
Hays County	+8.4%	2,626	2,077
Hemphill County	+8.8%	1	1
Henderson County	−0.4%	47	47
Hidalgo County	+3.0%	4,306	2,929
Hill County	+5.1%	7	7
Hockley County	+4.7%	4	4
Hood County	+5.5%	144	140
Hopkins County	+4.4%	16	10
Houston County	−20.5%	0	0
Howard County	+7.1%	100	100
Hunt County	+5.6%	102	102
Hutchinson County	+3.6%	48	0
Jack County	−2.7%	0	0
Jackson County	+8.6%	13	13
Jasper County	+2.4%	11	11
Jefferson County	+4.2%	599	505
Jim Wells County	+1.4%	12	12
Johnson County	+5.5%	747	558
Jones County	+4.2%	0	0
Kaufman County	+6.1%	578	265
Kendall County	+4.6%	190	190
Kerr County	+6.0%	63	63
Kleberg County	−2.0%	55	44
Lamar County	−3.0%	40	20
Lamb County	+2.3%	1	1
Lampasas County	−0.8%	18	18
Lavaca County	+7.9%	19	19
Lee County	+5.4%	8	8
Leon County	+0.3%	5	5
Liberty County	+8.4%	306	306
Limestone County	+1.4%	2	2
Live Oak County	+8.1%	10	10
Llano County	−0.4%	76	76
Lubbock County	+4.0%	1,850	952
Lynn County	−0.7%	1	1
Madison County	+2.3%	3	3
Marion County	−0.8%	1	1
Martin County	−14.3%	5	5
Matagorda County	+1.7%	85	85
Maverick County	−1.5%	95	79
McCulloch County	+6.8%	0	0
McLennan County	+4.8%	1,502	587
Medina County	+6.3%	36	36
Midland County	+1.7%	1,025	761
Milam County	+2.0%	14	4
Mills County	n/a	0	0
Montague County	−3.3%	2	2
Montgomery County	+7.2%	7,024	4,970
Moore County	+5.2%	14	12
Morris County	−0.5%	0	0
Nacogdoches County	+0.5%	21	13
Navarro County	+2.9%	98	96
Nolan County	+4.3%	0	0
Nueces County	+5.2%	1,217	1,205
Ochiltree County	+3.6%	5	5
Orange County	+1.2%	301	219
Palo Pinto County	+4.6%	7	7
Panola County	+0.9%	7	7
Parker County	+6.2%	395	383
Parmer County	+18.5%	3	3
Pecos County	+13.6%	7	7
Polk County	+3.0%	471	471
Potter County	+5.0%	804	502
Rains County	+5.2%	2	2
Randall County	+3.5%	64	50
Robertson County	−1.4%	87	75
Rockwall County	+8.1%	1,046	1,046
Runnels County	+5.5%	2	2
Rusk County	+5.6%	13	13
Sabine County	+2.5%	3	3
San Jacinto County	+15.0%	177	177
San Patricio County	+3.2%	757	225
Scurry County	+1.2%	6	6
Shelby County	+16.1%	0	0
Sherman County	−10.3%	11	7
Smith County	+3.0%	470	420
Somervell County	+6.2%	9	9
Starr County	+7.8%	9	6
Stephens County	+9.9%	2	2
Swisher County	+5.9%	0	0
Tarrant County	+8.0%	8,984	5,850
Taylor County	+2.5%	531	299
Terry County	−10.8%	3	3
Titus County	+5.5%	142	20
Tom Green County	+2.3%	236	236
Travis County	+8.5%	13,824	5,652
Trinity County	n/a	1	1
Tyler County	−2.7%	9	9
Upshur County	+1.0%	6	2
Uvalde County	+3.0%	28	20
Val Verde County	+0.7%	79	79
Van Zandt County	+5.2%	17	17
Victoria County	+2.1%	136	136
Walker County	+6.2%	158	158
Waller County	+4.4%	170	10
Ward County	+1.0%	40	40
Washington County	+9.9%	131	51
Webb County	+4.3%	1,848	1,032
Wharton County	+5.8%	71	69
Wichita County	+0.8%	72	72
Wilbarger County	+3.2%	2	2
Williamson County	+9.3%	5,525	3,747
Wilson County	+3.8%	96	48
Wise County	+6.2%	82	80
Wood County	+2.5%	23	0
Yoakum County	+11.4%	12	12
Young County	−0.7%	12	12

"n/a": FHFA has no county index value for one of the two years.

Building permits by year

Housing units authorized in Texas by year, 1995 to 2025

100,000

200,000

Units in buildings with 1 unit
Units in buildings with 2 or more units

Units for each year

Housing units authorized by building permits in Texas, by year
Year	All units	1 unit	2 or more units
2025	210,217	140,579	69,638
2024	225,756	158,121	67,635
2023	232,373	149,860	82,513
2022	263,007	154,793	108,214
2021	265,955	179,620	86,335
2020	230,503	158,242	72,261
2019	209,895	129,094	80,801
2018	192,878	126,048	66,830
2017	175,112	116,766	58,346
2016	165,853	106,511	59,342
2015	175,443	105,448	69,995
2014	166,982	99,701	67,281
2013	147,460	90,832	56,628
2012	135,514	79,532	55,982
2011	97,450	65,506	31,944
2010	88,461	66,973	21,488
2009	84,440	67,069	17,371
2008	129,523	79,626	49,897
2007	176,992	118,455	58,537
2006	216,642	162,750	53,892
2005	210,611	166,178	44,433
2004	188,842	149,056	39,786
2003	177,194	134,197	42,997
2002	165,027	122,623	42,404
2001	150,342	111,915	38,427
2000	141,231	108,613	32,618
1999	146,564	101,848	44,716
1998	156,729	99,831	56,898
1997	125,974	82,180	43,794
1996	118,823	83,103	35,720
1995	105,102	70,418	34,684

Sources: Federal Housing Finance Agency, annual house price indexes for states and counties, release of March 31, 2026. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, annual state and county files.