Cities · Hidalgo County

Pharr

The numbers for Pharr: its sales tax every month and, where bars and restaurants report, their alcohol sales, plus its bridges. Each figure with the month it covers.

Key numbers

$2,619,194
City sales tax allocation, latest month
+5.7% from a year earlier
as of October 2026
$27,677,179
City sales tax, year to date
+6.8% from a year earlier
as of October 2026
$456,694
Bar and restaurant alcohol sales, latest month
+8.6% from a year earlier
as of September 2026
22
Locations reporting alcohol sales
as of September 2026

Every number for Pharr

Sales tax from the state sales tax allocations; alcohol sales from the state mixed beverage tax reports; official bridge wait times every 15 minutes and federal border crossing counts for the latest month. A month with no report says so.

Measure	Number	Date	Updates
Sales tax
City sales tax allocation, latest month	$2,619,194	as of October 2026	Monthly
Change from a year earlier	+5.7%	as of October 2026	Monthly
Year to date	$27,677,179	as of October 2026	Monthly
Year to date, change from a year earlier	+6.8%	as of October 2026	Monthly
Bars and restaurants
Bar and restaurant alcohol sales, latest month	$456,694	as of September 2026	Monthly
Change from a year earlier	+8.6%	as of September 2026	Monthly
Locations reporting alcohol sales	22	as of September 2026	Monthly
Pharr international bridge
Commercial lanes, status now	Lanes closed	as of Nov 7, 2026, 7:00 pm	Every 15 minutes
Commercial wait now	Not reporting now	no reading yet	Every 15 minutes
Car wait now	10 min	as of Nov 7, 2026, 7:00 pm	Every 15 minutes
Pedestrian wait now	Not reporting now	no reading yet	Every 15 minutes
Hours	6 am to midnight	as of Nov 7, 2026, 7:00 pm	Quarterly
Hidalgo port (Hidalgo, Pharr and Anzalduas): crossings, latest month
Trucks	55,269	as of September 2026	Monthly
Trucks, change from a year earlier	−9.9%	as of September 2026	Monthly
Personal vehicles	383,736	as of September 2026	Monthly
Personal vehicles, change from a year earlier	+10.3%	as of September 2026	Monthly
Pedestrians	No report this month	no reading yet	Monthly

Pharr construction

Permits for the weeks of Oct 5, 2026 to Oct 26, 2026

No commercial projects in Pharr were filed with the state in the week of Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 30, 2026). Months of housing supply for the McAllen metro are not available. In August 2026, Pharr issued building permits for 23 new housing units, 7 of them single family. From Aug 4, 2026 to Nov 1, 2026, 7 commercial projects in Pharr were filed with the state, with a combined filed value of $10,275,000.

Weekly building permits

Reading	Count	Filed value
Week of Oct 26, 2026
Commercial projects filed with the stateAs of Oct 30, 2026	0
Other permit filingsAs of September 2026	496
Week of Oct 19, 2026
Commercial projects filed with the stateAs of Oct 23, 2026	0
Housing units permitted, McAllen metroAs of August 2026	431
Week of Oct 12, 2026
Commercial projects filed with the stateAs of Oct 16, 2026	1	$250,000
Housing units permitted, McAllen metroAs of August 2026	431
Week of Oct 5, 2026
Commercial projects filed with the stateAs of Oct 9, 2026	0
Housing units permitted, McAllen metroAs of August 2026	431

Not available: no figure was published for that week. Counts are what each city or the state made public, and not every city reports every kind of permit. The full history is GET /api/v1/series/permits-weekly, $0.05 per call.

Housing supply, McAllen metro

Housing supply figures for this metro are not available.

Figures for the whole McAllen metro area, which includes Pharr.

Housing permits, August 2026

Measure	August 2026
New housing units	23
Single family units	7
Buildings	11
Permit valuation	$3,229,971

By structure type in August 2026: 7 single family, 0 in two unit buildings, 16 in three and four unit buildings and 0 in buildings of five or more. Earlier months are GET /api/v1/series/permits-monthly, $0.05 per call.

New commercial projects, last 90 days

From Aug 4, 2026 to Nov 1, 2026, 7 commercial projects in Pharr were filed with the state, with a combined filed value of $10,275,000. As of Nov 1, 2026.

Full data for Pharr

City construction snapshot
Everything Frontera Signal has on Pharr in one dated JSON answer: permits, housing permits by structure type, sales tax receipts, housing supply, material prices, labor and the newest commercial projects.
GET /api/v1/snapshot?city=PharrThe free sample answers GET /api/v1/snapshot?city=McAllen
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New commercial projects
Every filed project in Pharr, newest first, with owner, design firm, filed cost, square feet and dates.
GET /api/v1/projects?city=PharrThe free sample answers GET /api/v1/projects?city=McAllen&limit=5
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Pharr and its neighbors

The six nearest cities, in a straight line.

Circle size: the city’s sales tax allocation, latest monthFigure under the name: change from a year earlier

City	County	Distance	Sales tax, latest month	Change	Bar sales
San Juan	Hidalgo	2.8 mi	$663,187	+11.9%	$167,346
Alamo	Hidalgo	4.6 mi	$485,689	+2.4%	$35,440
McAllen	Hidalgo	5.3 mi	$8,458,372	+10.8%	$7,059,181
Hidalgo	Hidalgo	5.3 mi	$485,859	+16.7%	$190,694
Granjeno	Hidalgo	7.3 mi	$2,891	−65.4%	none reported
Mission	Hidalgo	8.7 mi	$2,473,272	+12.2%	$462,263

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