# Counties in New Jersey by housing units authorized by building permits, 2025

All 21 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/new-jersey-counties
- CSV: https://invokely.ai/download/rankings/building-permit-housing-units/new-jersey-counties.csv

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Essex County | 3,657 |
| 2 | Hudson County | 3,352 |
| 3 | Bergen County | 2,970 |
| 4 | Ocean County | 2,831 |
| 5 | Monmouth County | 2,138 |
| 6 | Burlington County | 1,624 |
| 7 | Middlesex County | 1,476 |
| 8 | Morris County | 1,324 |
| 9 | Union County | 1,228 |
| 10 | Mercer County | 1,164 |
| 11 | Gloucester County | 921 |
| 12 | Cape May County | 854 |
| 13 | Camden County | 820 |
| 14 | Somerset County | 763 |
| 15 | Atlantic County | 759 |
| 16 | Passaic County | 585 |
| 17 | Hunterdon County | 544 |
| 18 | Warren County | 335 |
| 19 | Cumberland County | 143 |
| 20 | Sussex County | 96 |
| 21 | Salem County | 77 |