# Counties in South Carolina by housing units authorized by building permits, 2025

All 46 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/south-carolina-counties
- CSV: https://invokely.ai/download/rankings/building-permit-housing-units/south-carolina-counties.csv

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Horry County | 6,511 |
| 2 | Greenville County | 4,947 |
| 3 | Spartanburg County | 3,986 |
| 4 | Charleston County | 3,392 |
| 5 | Richland County | 3,382 |
| 6 | York County | 2,646 |
| 7 | Berkeley County | 2,299 |
| 8 | Lexington County | 2,006 |
| 9 | Aiken County | 1,959 |
| 10 | Jasper County | 1,858 |
| 11 | Dorchester County | 1,596 |
| 12 | Anderson County | 1,493 |
| 13 | Beaufort County | 1,219 |
| 14 | Lancaster County | 1,110 |
| 15 | Pickens County | 946 |
| 16 | Laurens County | 869 |
| 17 | Oconee County | 753 |
| 18 | Florence County | 697 |
| 19 | Kershaw County | 509 |
| 20 | Georgetown County | 377 |
| 21 | Union County | 373 |
| 22 | Sumter County | 358 |
| 23 | Chester County | 310 |
| 23 | Greenwood County | 310 |
| 25 | Cherokee County | 286 |
| 26 | Darlington County | 205 |
| 27 | Edgefield County | 194 |
| 28 | Newberry County | 160 |
| 29 | Abbeville County | 157 |
| 30 | McCormick County | 119 |
| 31 | Chesterfield County | 117 |
| 32 | Clarendon County | 114 |
| 33 | Orangeburg County | 107 |
| 34 | Fairfield County | 74 |
| 35 | Colleton County | 73 |
| 36 | Marion County | 71 |
| 37 | Saluda County | 61 |
| 38 | Dillon County | 41 |
| 39 | Calhoun County | 38 |
| 40 | Williamsburg County | 35 |
| 41 | Barnwell County | 31 |
| 42 | Bamberg County | 24 |
| 43 | Lee County | 22 |
| 44 | Hampton County | 17 |
| 45 | Marlboro County | 6 |
| 46 | Allendale County | 4 |