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

All 62 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-york-counties
- CSV: https://invokely.ai/download/rankings/building-permit-housing-units/new-york-counties.csv

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Kings County | 6,844 |
| 2 | Bronx County | 6,032 |
| 3 | Queens County | 3,395 |
| 4 | New York County | 2,984 |
| 5 | Onondaga County | 1,701 |
| 6 | Orange County | 1,668 |
| 7 | Suffolk County | 1,399 |
| 8 | Erie County | 1,213 |
| 9 | Westchester County | 996 |
| 10 | Saratoga County | 884 |
| 11 | Nassau County | 821 |
| 12 | Monroe County | 755 |
| 13 | Albany County | 683 |
| 14 | Sullivan County | 568 |
| 15 | Dutchess County | 552 |
| 16 | Richmond County | 508 |
| 17 | Tompkins County | 471 |
| 18 | Ontario County | 467 |
| 19 | Ulster County | 434 |
| 20 | Rockland County | 429 |
| 21 | Wayne County | 414 |
| 22 | Rensselaer County | 335 |
| 23 | Broome County | 314 |
| 24 | Jefferson County | 288 |
| 25 | Niagara County | 271 |
| 26 | Oneida County | 254 |
| 27 | Warren County | 243 |
| 28 | St. Lawrence County | 221 |
| 29 | Clinton County | 189 |
| 30 | Essex County | 188 |
| 31 | Madison County | 187 |
| 32 | Chautauqua County | 168 |
| 33 | Tioga County | 154 |
| 34 | Oswego County | 153 |
| 35 | Cattaraugus County | 150 |
| 36 | Franklin County | 146 |
| 37 | Greene County | 140 |
| 38 | Lewis County | 133 |
| 39 | Otsego County | 125 |
| 40 | Columbia County | 111 |
| 41 | Cayuga County | 110 |
| 41 | Schenectady County | 110 |
| 43 | Delaware County | 108 |
| 44 | Montgomery County | 105 |
| 45 | Steuben County | 104 |
| 46 | Genesee County | 102 |
| 47 | Chemung County | 98 |
| 48 | Allegany County | 97 |
| 49 | Yates County | 87 |
| 50 | Fulton County | 85 |
| 51 | Washington County | 84 |
| 52 | Livingston County | 80 |
| 53 | Putnam County | 72 |
| 54 | Wyoming County | 70 |
| 55 | Seneca County | 58 |
| 56 | Chenango County | 55 |
| 57 | Herkimer County | 54 |
| 57 | Schuyler County | 54 |
| 59 | Hamilton County | 40 |
| 60 | Cortland County | 37 |
| 61 | Schoharie County | 35 |
| 62 | Orleans County | 34 |