{"id":500882,"date":"2026-01-08T08:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/500882\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T08:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:08:13","slug":"san-antonio-was-a-top-destination-for-movers-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/500882\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio was a top destination for movers in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driven by population growth, nation-leading numbers of residential rooftops are popping up across San Antonio and the rest of Texas. Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau and Zillow, industry review site Construction Coverage found 14,857 <a href=\"https:\/\/constructioncoverage.com\/research\/cities-investing-most-in-new-housing#results\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> new residential units<\/a> were authorized in the Alamo City in 2024. <\/p>\n<p>That figure landed San Antonio in 20th place among major metro areas for the total number of housing permits, including those for single-family homes, apartments, and condos.<\/p>\n<p>Most of Texas ranked higher than San Antonio. Dallas-Fort Worth led the state and nation with 71,788 permits, with Houston right behind in second place, approving 65,747 residential permits in 2024. In third place was the country\u2019s largest metro, New York City (57,929 permits). Elsewhere in Texas, the Austin metro ranked sixth (32,294 permits).<\/p>\n<p>Construction Coverage also sorted major metro areas based on the number of new housing units authorized per 1,000 existing homes in 2024. Raleigh, North Carolina, held the No. 1 spot (28.8 permits per 1,000 existing homes), followed by Austin at No. 2 (28.6), DFW at No. 3 (22.2), Houston at No. 4 (21.6), and San Antonio at No. 13 (13.6).<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/map-shows-us-states-building-most-housing-2026-11241641\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Newsweek analysis<\/a> of Census Bureau data shows building permits for 225,756 new residential units were approved in 2024 in Texas \u2014 a trend fueled largely by activity in DFW, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio. That put Texas atop the list of states building the most residential units for the year.<\/p>\n<p>Through the first eight months of last year, 145,901 permits for new residential units were approved in Texas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/construction\/bps\/statemonthly.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">according to Census Bureau data<\/a>. That\u2019s nearly 80,000 permits shy of the 2024 total.<\/p>\n<p>Among the states, Construction Coverage ranks Texas sixth for the number of residential building permits approved in 2024 per 1,000 existing homes (17.9).<\/p>\n<p>Extra housing is being built in Texas to meet demand spurred by population growth. From April 2020 to July 2024, the state\u2019s population <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/quickfacts\/fact\/table\/TX\/PST045224\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">increased 7.3 percent<\/a>, the Census Bureau says.<\/p>\n<p>While builders are busy constructing new housing in Texas, they\u2019re not necessarily profiting a lot from homebuilding activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Driven by population growth, nation-leading numbers of residential rooftops are popping up across San Antonio and the rest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":500883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,12489,20598,31111,42012,10545,7202,7203,358,3187,224750,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-500882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-migration","10":"tag-moving","11":"tag-population","12":"tag-population-growth","13":"tag-reports","14":"tag-san-antonio","15":"tag-sanantonio","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-tx","18":"tag-uhaul","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115858460461335210","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}