US Counties With the Highest New Single-family Homes Permitted
3,024 US counties ranked by new single-family homes permitted, from highest to lowest. First are Jasper County, SC (42.01), Custer County, SD (34.77) and Brunswick County, NC (33.40). The middle one of the 3,024 has 1.49.
What this measures
New single-family houses approved by a building permit during the year. Each house counts as one home. Places that need no permit are not counted. 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 | South Carolina | 7.13 |
| 2 | Idaho | 6.38 |
| 3 | North Carolina | 6.22 |
| 4 | Florida | 5.74 |
| 5 | Texas | 5.06 |
| 6 | Arizona | 4.74 |
| 7 | Delaware | 4.66 |
| 8 | Tennessee | 4.48 |
| 9 | Utah | 4.48 |
| 10 | Nevada | 4.15 |
| 11 | Georgia | 4.10 |
| 12 | South Dakota | 3.62 |
| 13 | Colorado | 3.38 |
| 14 | Maine | 3.30 |
| 15 | New Mexico | 3.23 |
| 16 | Alabama | 3.22 |
| 17 | Arkansas | 3.09 |
| 18 | Oklahoma | 2.58 |
| 19 | Indiana | 2.50 |
| 20 | Virginia | 2.46 |
| 21 | Wyoming | 2.45 |
| 22 | Louisiana | 2.43 |
| 23 | Mississippi | 2.42 |
| 24 | Nebraska | 2.37 |
| 25 | Washington | 2.33 |
| 26 | Iowa | 2.32 |
| 27 | Oregon | 2.31 |
| 28 | Minnesota | 2.23 |
| 29 | New Hampshire | 2.14 |
| 30 | Montana | 2.06 |
| 31 | Vermont | 2.02 |
| 32 | Wisconsin | 1.95 |
| 33 | North Dakota | 1.92 |
| 34 | West Virginia | 1.84 |
| 35 | Missouri | 1.79 |
| 36 | Kentucky | 1.73 |
| 37 | Maryland | 1.70 |
| 38 | Kansas | 1.68 |
| 39 | Hawaii | 1.63 |
| 40 | California | 1.49 |
| 41 | Michigan | 1.43 |
| 42 | New Jersey | 1.43 |
| 43 | Ohio | 1.36 |
| 44 | Pennsylvania | 1.23 |
| 45 | Alaska | 0.82 |
| 46 | Illinois | 0.75 |
| 47 | Massachusetts | 0.73 |
| 48 | Rhode Island | 0.65 |
| 49 | Connecticut | 0.57 |
| 50 | New York | 0.49 |
| 51 | District of Columbia | 0.25 |
More on new single-family homes permitted
- US Counties With the Lowest New Single-family Homes Permitted
- New single-family homes permitted 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.