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

All 18 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2025, so the places are comparable. 1 counties have no value for that period and are not ranked.

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

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Bernalillo County | 1,560 |
| 2 | Sandoval County | 1,019 |
| 3 | Doña Ana County | 833 |
| 4 | Santa Fe County | 495 |
| 5 | Valencia County | 251 |
| 6 | Eddy County | 241 |
| 7 | Lea County | 143 |
| 8 | Lincoln County | 111 |
| 9 | Taos County | 105 |
| 10 | San Juan County | 80 |
| 11 | Chaves County | 75 |
| 12 | Curry County | 62 |
| 13 | Los Alamos County | 15 |
| 14 | Otero County | 3 |
| 15 | Luna County | 2 |
| 16 | McKinley County | 0 |
| 16 | Roosevelt County | 0 |
| 16 | San Miguel County | 0 |