US Counties With the Lowest 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 lowest to highest. First are Baker County, FL (0.00), Bradford County, FL (0.00) and Calhoun County, FL (0.00). 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 lowest counties
Every state, lowest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | Per 1,000 residents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wyoming | 0.10 |
| 2 | Mississippi | 0.15 |
| 3 | Rhode Island | 0.29 |
| 4 | West Virginia | 0.36 |
| 5 | Alaska | 0.37 |
| 6 | Illinois | 0.47 |
| 7 | Oklahoma | 0.49 |
| 8 | Louisiana | 0.51 |
| 9 | Michigan | 0.51 |
| 10 | Pennsylvania | 0.65 |
| 11 | Arkansas | 0.69 |
| 12 | Alabama | 0.72 |
| 13 | New Mexico | 0.72 |
| 14 | Missouri | 0.74 |
| 15 | South Carolina | 0.78 |
| 16 | Ohio | 0.82 |
| 17 | Hawaii | 0.85 |
| 18 | New Hampshire | 0.90 |
| 19 | Maine | 0.95 |
| 20 | Iowa | 0.95 |
| 21 | Kansas | 0.97 |
| 22 | Delaware | 0.97 |
| 23 | Massachusetts | 1.04 |
| 24 | Connecticut | 1.09 |
| 25 | California | 1.26 |
| 26 | North Dakota | 1.26 |
| 27 | Maryland | 1.28 |
| 28 | Indiana | 1.36 |
| 29 | Wisconsin | 1.40 |
| 30 | Kentucky | 1.43 |
| 31 | Vermont | 1.49 |
| 32 | Montana | 1.53 |
| 33 | Nevada | 1.58 |
| 34 | Virginia | 1.64 |
| 35 | Georgia | 1.66 |
| 36 | Oregon | 1.69 |
| 37 | New York | 1.88 |
| 38 | New Jersey | 1.89 |
| 39 | Nebraska | 1.95 |
| 40 | Tennessee | 2.15 |
| 41 | Minnesota | 2.17 |
| 42 | Washington | 2.17 |
| 43 | Texas | 2.50 |
| 44 | Idaho | 2.65 |
| 45 | Utah | 2.86 |
| 46 | Florida | 2.92 |
| 47 | Arizona | 2.97 |
| 48 | North Carolina | 3.02 |
| 49 | Colorado | 3.23 |
| 50 | South Dakota | 3.75 |
| 51 | District of Columbia | 4.13 |
More on new homes permitted in buildings of 5 or more units
- US Counties With the Highest 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.