# Dwelling units approved

Number of dwelling units in building work approved in the month: new houses, other new residential buildings, dwellings created by alterations, additions or conversions, and dwellings in non-residential buildings, all sectors, original (not seasonally adjusted). ABS Building Approvals, for Australia, the six states and the two territories.

## Key facts

- Published for 9 places, with figures from July 1983 to August 2026.
- Figures last updated on 2026-10-12.

- Indicator id: `dwelling_units_approved`
- Unit: count
- Note: Counts approvals, not construction starts or completions, and some approved dwellings are never built. Monthly and not seasonally adjusted, so it is not comparable with the annual US building_permit_units or with the seasonally adjusted figures in the ABS release.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/en/dwelling-units-approved
- API: https://invokely.ai/api/v1/indicators/dwelling_units_approved