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

All 103 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/kansas-counties
- CSV: https://invokely.ai/download/rankings/building-permit-housing-units/kansas-counties.csv

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Johnson County | 3,237 |
| 2 | Sedgwick County | 2,757 |
| 3 | Wyandotte County | 650 |
| 4 | Shawnee County | 464 |
| 5 | Douglas County | 377 |
| 6 | Leavenworth County | 287 |
| 7 | Riley County | 243 |
| 8 | Butler County | 214 |
| 9 | Pottawatomie County | 132 |
| 10 | Miami County | 124 |
| 11 | Franklin County | 120 |
| 11 | Geary County | 120 |
| 13 | Harvey County | 115 |
| 13 | McPherson County | 115 |
| 15 | Ellis County | 110 |
| 16 | Finney County | 107 |
| 16 | Saline County | 107 |
| 18 | Jefferson County | 80 |
| 19 | Linn County | 71 |
| 20 | Ford County | 64 |
| 21 | Crawford County | 61 |
| 22 | Lyon County | 59 |
| 23 | Osage County | 50 |
| 24 | Marion County | 40 |
| 25 | Kingman County | 39 |
| 26 | Reno County | 38 |
| 27 | Cowley County | 35 |
| 28 | Dickinson County | 30 |
| 28 | Russell County | 30 |
| 30 | Montgomery County | 27 |
| 31 | Coffey County | 26 |
| 32 | Allen County | 25 |
| 32 | Sumner County | 25 |
| 34 | Jackson County | 24 |
| 35 | Clay County | 21 |
| 36 | Seward County | 20 |
| 37 | Anderson County | 19 |
| 37 | Atchison County | 19 |
| 37 | Cherokee County | 19 |
| 40 | Wabaunsee County | 17 |
| 41 | Wilson County | 16 |
| 42 | Rice County | 15 |
| 43 | Woodson County | 14 |
| 44 | Stafford County | 11 |
| 45 | Bourbon County | 10 |
| 45 | Gray County | 10 |
| 47 | Barton County | 9 |
| 47 | Mitchell County | 9 |
| 49 | Neosho County | 8 |
| 50 | Harper County | 7 |
| 50 | Ottawa County | 7 |
| 50 | Sherman County | 7 |
| 53 | Kiowa County | 6 |
| 53 | Morris County | 6 |
| 55 | Marshall County | 5 |
| 56 | Edwards County | 4 |
| 56 | Labette County | 4 |
| 58 | Clark County | 3 |
| 58 | Doniphan County | 3 |
| 58 | Republic County | 3 |
| 58 | Rooks County | 3 |
| 62 | Cloud County | 2 |
| 62 | Nemaha County | 2 |
| 62 | Rush County | 2 |
| 62 | Trego County | 2 |
| 66 | Chautauqua County | 1 |
| 66 | Cheyenne County | 1 |
| 66 | Ellsworth County | 1 |
| 66 | Gove County | 1 |
| 66 | Grant County | 1 |
| 66 | Greenwood County | 1 |
| 66 | Hodgeman County | 1 |
| 66 | Kearny County | 1 |
| 66 | Meade County | 1 |
| 66 | Morton County | 1 |
| 66 | Rawlins County | 1 |
| 66 | Scott County | 1 |
| 66 | Thomas County | 1 |
| 79 | Barber County | 0 |
| 79 | Brown County | 0 |
| 79 | Chase County | 0 |
| 79 | Comanche County | 0 |
| 79 | Decatur County | 0 |
| 79 | Graham County | 0 |
| 79 | Greeley County | 0 |
| 79 | Hamilton County | 0 |
| 79 | Haskell County | 0 |
| 79 | Jewell County | 0 |
| 79 | Lane County | 0 |
| 79 | Lincoln County | 0 |
| 79 | Logan County | 0 |
| 79 | Ness County | 0 |
| 79 | Norton County | 0 |
| 79 | Osborne County | 0 |
| 79 | Pawnee County | 0 |
| 79 | Phillips County | 0 |
| 79 | Pratt County | 0 |
| 79 | Smith County | 0 |
| 79 | Stanton County | 0 |
| 79 | Stevens County | 0 |
| 79 | Wallace County | 0 |
| 79 | Washington County | 0 |
| 79 | Wichita County | 0 |