US Counties With the Highest New Homes Permitted in Buildings of 5 or More Units
3,024 US counties ranked by new homes permitted in buildings of 5 or more units, from highest to lowest. First are Walton County, FL (16.23), Broomfield County, CO (14.90) and Travis County, TX (14.00). The middle one of the 3,024 has 0.00.
What this measures
New homes approved by a building permit during the year in buildings with five or more homes, which are mostly apartment blocks. A building of 100 apartments counts as 100 homes. Source: Census Building Permits Survey.
This is a count, so it is ranked per 1,000 residents. Ranked by the raw total, it would just list the biggest counties.
For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.
The 100 highest counties
Every state, highest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | Per 1,000 residents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | District of Columbia | 4.13 |
| 2 | South Dakota | 3.75 |
| 3 | Colorado | 3.23 |
| 4 | North Carolina | 3.02 |
| 5 | Arizona | 2.97 |
| 6 | Florida | 2.92 |
| 7 | Utah | 2.86 |
| 8 | Idaho | 2.65 |
| 9 | Texas | 2.50 |
| 10 | Washington | 2.17 |
| 11 | Minnesota | 2.17 |
| 12 | Tennessee | 2.15 |
| 13 | Nebraska | 1.95 |
| 14 | New Jersey | 1.89 |
| 15 | New York | 1.88 |
| 16 | Oregon | 1.69 |
| 17 | Georgia | 1.66 |
| 18 | Virginia | 1.64 |
| 19 | Nevada | 1.58 |
| 20 | Montana | 1.53 |
| 21 | Vermont | 1.49 |
| 22 | Kentucky | 1.43 |
| 23 | Wisconsin | 1.40 |
| 24 | Indiana | 1.36 |
| 25 | Maryland | 1.28 |
| 26 | North Dakota | 1.26 |
| 27 | California | 1.26 |
| 28 | Connecticut | 1.09 |
| 29 | Massachusetts | 1.04 |
| 30 | Delaware | 0.97 |
| 31 | Kansas | 0.97 |
| 32 | Iowa | 0.95 |
| 33 | Maine | 0.95 |
| 34 | New Hampshire | 0.90 |
| 35 | Hawaii | 0.85 |
| 36 | Ohio | 0.82 |
| 37 | South Carolina | 0.78 |
| 38 | Missouri | 0.74 |
| 39 | New Mexico | 0.72 |
| 40 | Alabama | 0.72 |
| 41 | Arkansas | 0.69 |
| 42 | Pennsylvania | 0.65 |
| 43 | Michigan | 0.51 |
| 44 | Louisiana | 0.51 |
| 45 | Oklahoma | 0.49 |
| 46 | Illinois | 0.47 |
| 47 | Alaska | 0.37 |
| 48 | West Virginia | 0.36 |
| 49 | Rhode Island | 0.29 |
| 50 | Mississippi | 0.15 |
| 51 | Wyoming | 0.10 |
More on new homes permitted in buildings of 5 or more units
- US Counties With the Lowest New Homes Permitted in Buildings of 5 or More Units
- New homes permitted in buildings of 5 or more units by US county: map by year and what it goes with
A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.