# US states by housing units authorized by building permits, 2025

All 51 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `building_permit_units`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Number of new privately owned housing units authorized by building permits in the year or month, from the US Census Bureau Building Permits Survey. Annual totals for the nation, states and counties; monthly counts for the nation and states.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey: final annual state estimates of new privately owned housing units authorized, including imputation, United States and states (https://www2.census.gov/econ/bps/State/st2025a.txt)
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. Building Permits Survey: final annual state estimates of new privately owned housing units authorized, including imputation, United States and states. https://www2.census.gov/econ/bps/State/st2025a.txt. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/building-permit-housing-units/us-states

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Texas | 210,217 |
| 2 | Florida | 178,297 |
| 3 | California | 103,856 |
| 4 | North Carolina | 86,167 |
| 5 | Georgia | 61,196 |
| 6 | Arizona | 51,532 |
| 7 | South Carolina | 45,862 |
| 8 | Tennessee | 43,374 |
| 9 | New York | 38,667 |
| 10 | Washington | 34,913 |
| 11 | Colorado | 33,754 |
| 12 | Ohio | 33,640 |
| 13 | Virginia | 33,094 |
| 14 | Indiana | 29,076 |
| 15 | New Jersey | 27,661 |
| 16 | Utah | 26,775 |
| 17 | Pennsylvania | 25,709 |
| 18 | Wisconsin | 25,569 |
| 19 | Michigan | 23,075 |
| 20 | Minnesota | 20,947 |
| 21 | Alabama | 19,061 |
| 22 | Illinois | 18,551 |
| 23 | Nevada | 18,540 |
| 24 | Idaho | 17,944 |
| 25 | Missouri | 17,474 |
| 26 | Oklahoma | 15,513 |
| 27 | Arkansas | 15,492 |
| 28 | Kentucky | 14,940 |
| 29 | Oregon | 14,839 |
| 30 | Louisiana | 14,203 |
| 31 | Iowa | 13,664 |
| 32 | Maryland | 13,358 |
| 33 | Massachusetts | 12,477 |
| 34 | Nebraska | 10,596 |
| 35 | Kansas | 10,299 |
| 36 | Mississippi | 8,405 |
| 37 | New Mexico | 7,747 |
| 38 | Connecticut | 7,273 |
| 39 | Maine | 6,979 |
| 40 | Delaware | 6,468 |
| 41 | South Dakota | 5,305 |
| 42 | Montana | 5,258 |
| 43 | New Hampshire | 5,030 |
| 44 | West Virginia | 3,962 |
| 45 | Hawaii | 3,708 |
| 46 | North Dakota | 2,440 |
| 47 | Vermont | 2,294 |
| 48 | Wyoming | 2,238 |
| 49 | Rhode Island | 1,738 |
| 50 | District of Columbia | 1,591 |
| 51 | Alaska | 848 |