# Counties in Alaska by housing units authorized by building permits, 2025

All 25 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `building_permit_units`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Annual number of new privately owned housing units authorized by building permits, from the US Census Bureau Building Permits Survey.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey: final annual county estimates of new privately owned housing units authorized, including imputation (https://www2.census.gov/econ/bps/County/co2025a.txt)
- Retrieved: 2026-10-10
- Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. Building Permits Survey: final annual county estimates of new privately owned housing units authorized, including imputation. https://www2.census.gov/econ/bps/County/co2025a.txt. Retrieved 2026-10-10.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/building-permit-housing-units/alaska-counties
- CSV: https://invokely.ai/download/rankings/building-permit-housing-units/alaska-counties.csv

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Kenai Peninsula Borough | 222 |
| 2 | Anchorage Municipality | 218 |
| 3 | Juneau City and Borough | 117 |
| 4 | Matanuska-Susitna Borough | 79 |
| 5 | Ketchikan Gateway Borough | 63 |
| 6 | Fairbanks North Star Borough | 31 |
| 7 | Chugach Census Area | 23 |
| 8 | Hoonah-Angoon Census Area | 20 |
| 9 | Sitka City and Borough | 10 |
| 9 | Skagway Municipality | 10 |
| 11 | Kodiak Island Borough | 9 |
| 12 | Bethel Census Area | 8 |
| 12 | Haines Borough | 8 |
| 14 | Bristol Bay Borough | 6 |
| 14 | Petersburg Borough | 6 |
| 16 | North Slope Borough | 5 |
| 17 | Aleutians West Census Area | 4 |
| 18 | Nome Census Area | 3 |
| 18 | Yakutat City and Borough | 3 |
| 20 | Northwest Arctic Borough | 2 |
| 21 | Wrangell City and Borough | 1 |
| 22 | Aleutians East Borough | 0 |
| 22 | Dillingham Census Area | 0 |
| 22 | Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area | 0 |
| 22 | Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | 0 |