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

All 91 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/indiana-counties
- CSV: https://invokely.ai/download/rankings/building-permit-housing-units/indiana-counties.csv

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Hamilton County | 4,146 |
| 2 | Tippecanoe County | 3,979 |
| 3 | Hendricks County | 1,654 |
| 4 | Allen County | 1,388 |
| 5 | Marion County | 1,342 |
| 6 | Lake County | 1,262 |
| 7 | Hancock County | 1,212 |
| 8 | Boone County | 1,195 |
| 9 | Monroe County | 1,139 |
| 10 | Johnson County | 1,088 |
| 11 | Clark County | 794 |
| 12 | Elkhart County | 777 |
| 13 | St. Joseph County | 611 |
| 14 | Porter County | 564 |
| 15 | Vanderburgh County | 441 |
| 16 | Kosciusko County | 409 |
| 17 | Floyd County | 376 |
| 17 | Morgan County | 376 |
| 19 | Warrick County | 343 |
| 20 | Delaware County | 328 |
| 21 | LaPorte County | 291 |
| 22 | Wayne County | 271 |
| 23 | Dubois County | 267 |
| 24 | Vigo County | 234 |
| 25 | Shelby County | 192 |
| 26 | Bartholomew County | 187 |
| 27 | Madison County | 186 |
| 28 | Wells County | 172 |
| 29 | Harrison County | 159 |
| 30 | Dearborn County | 155 |
| 31 | LaGrange County | 153 |
| 32 | Steuben County | 127 |
| 33 | Owen County | 122 |
| 34 | Marshall County | 118 |
| 35 | DeKalb County | 114 |
| 35 | Jackson County | 114 |
| 37 | Noble County | 113 |
| 38 | Lawrence County | 110 |
| 39 | Howard County | 106 |
| 40 | Spencer County | 100 |
| 41 | Putnam County | 99 |
| 42 | Adams County | 98 |
| 43 | Montgomery County | 93 |
| 43 | Wabash County | 93 |
| 45 | Jasper County | 90 |
| 46 | Gibson County | 89 |
| 47 | Ripley County | 88 |
| 48 | Miami County | 84 |
| 49 | Switzerland County | 81 |
| 49 | Whitley County | 81 |
| 51 | Jennings County | 77 |
| 52 | Daviess County | 74 |
| 53 | Decatur County | 70 |
| 54 | Jefferson County | 68 |
| 55 | Fulton County | 64 |
| 55 | Huntington County | 64 |
| 55 | Martin County | 64 |
| 58 | Parke County | 63 |
| 59 | Brown County | 59 |
| 59 | Franklin County | 59 |
| 61 | Starke County | 58 |
| 62 | Carroll County | 52 |
| 63 | Henry County | 44 |
| 64 | Posey County | 41 |
| 65 | Knox County | 39 |
| 66 | Grant County | 38 |
| 66 | Scott County | 38 |
| 68 | White County | 37 |
| 69 | Clinton County | 36 |
| 70 | Newton County | 34 |
| 70 | Washington County | 34 |
| 72 | Perry County | 32 |
| 73 | Rush County | 30 |
| 74 | Fountain County | 29 |
| 75 | Cass County | 28 |
| 76 | Pulaski County | 27 |
| 77 | Clay County | 26 |
| 78 | Jay County | 25 |
| 79 | Warren County | 21 |
| 80 | Vermillion County | 20 |
| 81 | Randolph County | 18 |
| 82 | Blackford County | 17 |
| 83 | Fayette County | 16 |
| 84 | Sullivan County | 15 |
| 85 | Tipton County | 13 |
| 86 | Orange County | 10 |
| 86 | Union County | 10 |
| 88 | Ohio County | 9 |
| 89 | Benton County | 6 |
| 90 | Crawford County | 0 |
| 90 | Pike County | 0 |