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

All 16 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/maine-counties
- CSV: https://invokely.ai/download/rankings/building-permit-housing-units/maine-counties.csv

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Cumberland County | 1,756 |
| 2 | York County | 1,473 |
| 3 | Kennebec County | 510 |
| 4 | Penobscot County | 486 |
| 5 | Oxford County | 468 |
| 6 | Androscoggin County | 453 |
| 7 | Hancock County | 318 |
| 8 | Sagadahoc County | 258 |
| 9 | Knox County | 191 |
| 10 | Franklin County | 184 |
| 11 | Lincoln County | 180 |
| 12 | Waldo County | 167 |
| 13 | Piscataquis County | 140 |
| 14 | Somerset County | 110 |
| 15 | Washington County | 107 |
| 16 | Aroostook County | 64 |