Cities in Utah by housing units authorized by building permits

Salt Lake City, UT had the highest housing units authorized by building permits of 63 cities in 2016, at 3,265. Woods Cross, UT had the lowest, at 2. The median was 172 and the figure for Utah was 22,662. Source: the U.S. Census Bureau.

Highest3,265Salt Lake City, UT

Lowest2Woods Cross, UT

Median17263 cities

Utah22,662History

Top 40 cities, 2016

count. Source: Invokely calculation with data from U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Cities	2016 count	Change on 2015
1	Salt Lake City, UT Estimated	3,265	+170.7%
2	Herriman, UT Estimated	1,228	-2.6%
3	St. George, UT Estimated	902	+17.4%
4	Eagle Mountain, UT Estimated	877	+86.2%
5	South Jordan, UT Estimated	869	+13.6%
6	Saratoga Springs, UT Estimated	812	+112.6%
7	Vineyard, UT Estimated	717	+157%
8	Lehi, UT Estimated	616	-13.6%
9	Bluffdale, UT Estimated	509	+105.2%
10	West Jordan, UT Estimated	445	-30.5%
11	West Haven, UT Estimated	396	+247.4%
12	Washington, UT Estimated	390	+3.4%
13	Hurricane, UT Estimated	366	+47.6%
14	Orem, UT Estimated	354	-62.2%
15	Syracuse, UT Estimated	324	+28.6%
16	Layton, UT Estimated	317	-29.4%
17	Farmington, UT Estimated	304	+90%
18	Draper, UT Estimated	301	+16.7%
19	Riverton, UT Estimated	298	+0.7%
20	Spanish Fork, UT Estimated	291	+27.1%
21	American Fork, UT Estimated	276	+119%
22	North Ogden, UT Estimated	272	+267.6%
23	Ivins, UT Estimated	270	+200%
24	Provo, UT Estimated	259	+19.4%
25	Smithfield, UT Estimated	236	+16.8%
26	Sandy, UT Estimated	231	-65.8%
27	Heber, UT Estimated	227	+17.6%
27	Murray, UT Estimated	227	+229%
29	Cedar City, UT Estimated	220	+21.5%
30	Midvale, UT Estimated	207	-9.6%
31	Roy, UT Estimated	176	+700%
32	Clearfield, UT Estimated	172	+182%
33	West Valley City, UT Estimated	171	-36.4%
34	Kaysville, UT Estimated	170	-14.1%
34	Santaquin, UT Estimated	170	+30.8%
36	Pleasant View, UT Estimated	159	+17.8%
37	Tooele, UT Estimated	131	-0.8%
38	Salem, UT Estimated	128	+26.7%
39	Centerville, UT Estimated	125	+3.3%
39	Highland, UT Estimated	125	-17.2%
41	Logan, UT Estimated	124	-8.8%
41	Pleasant Grove, UT Estimated	124	-38.3%
43	Grantsville, UT Estimated	123	+1.7%
43	Ogden, UT Estimated	123	-68.9%
45	Clinton, UT Estimated	117	+82.8%
46	Springville, UT Estimated	115	-43.6%
47	Mapleton, UT Estimated	91	+23%
48	North Salt Lake, UT Estimated	83	-50.6%
49	South Salt Lake, UT Estimated	70	+84.2%
50	Holladay, UT Estimated	64	+93.9%
51	North Logan, UT Estimated	54	-44.9%
52	Tremonton, UT Estimated	47	-2.1%
53	Payson, UT Estimated	45	-36.6%
54	South Ogden, UT Estimated	40	+66.7%
55	Lindon, UT Estimated	35	+12.9%
56	Bountiful, UT Estimated	34	-55.3%
56	Brigham City, UT Estimated	34	+3%
58	Cottonwood Heights, UT Estimated	33	+43.5%
58	Taylorsville, UT Estimated	33	-32.7%
60	West Point, UT Estimated	26	-48%
61	Alpine, UT Estimated	25	-19.4%
62	Vernal, UT Estimated	4	-76.5%
63	Woods Cross, UT Estimated	2	-85.7%

Other periods

About this ranking

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.

Counts housing units, not buildings, starts, completions or sales. Monthly counts are not seasonally adjusted and do not add up exactly to the annual total, which includes later corrections; the national seasonally adjusted annual rate in the monthly New Residential Construction release is a different measure.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the cities are compared on one definition. 1 cities with data in other periods have no value for 2016 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

U.S. Census Bureau. Building Permits Survey: final annual estimates of new privately owned housing units authorized by permit-issuing place, including imputation. https://www2.census.gov/econ/bps/Place/West%20Region/we2016a.txt. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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APA 7

U.S. Census Bureau. (2017). Building Permits Survey: final annual estimates of new privately owned housing units authorized by permit-issuing place, including imputation (Cities in Utah by housing units authorized by building permits, 2016) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://www2.census.gov/econ/bps/Place/West%20Region/we2016a.txt

MLA 9

Building Permits Survey: final annual estimates of new privately owned housing units authorized by permit-issuing place, including imputation, Cities in Utah by housing units authorized by building permits, 2016. U.S. Census Bureau, 1 May 2017, https://www2.census.gov/econ/bps/Place/West%20Region/we2016a.txt. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/building-permit-housing-units/utah-cities?period=2016. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

U.S. Census Bureau. 2017. Building Permits Survey: final annual estimates of new privately owned housing units authorized by permit-issuing place, including imputation. Cities in Utah by housing units authorized by building permits, 2016. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://www2.census.gov/econ/bps/Place/West%20Region/we2016a.txt. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/building-permit-housing-units/utah-cities?period=2016.

Harvard

U.S. Census Bureau (2017) Building Permits Survey: final annual estimates of new privately owned housing units authorized by permit-issuing place, including imputation, Cities in Utah by housing units authorized by building permits, 2016 [Dataset]. Available at: https://www2.census.gov/econ/bps/Place/West%20Region/we2016a.txt, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/building-permit-housing-units/utah-cities?period=2016 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{census_cities_in_utah_by_2016,
  author = {{U.S. Census Bureau}},
  title = {{Building Permits Survey: final annual estimates of new privately owned housing units authorized by permit-issuing place, including imputation: Cities in Utah by housing units authorized by building permits, 2016}},
  year = {2017},
  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://www2.census.gov/econ/bps/Place/West%20Region/we2016a.txt},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/building-permit-housing-units/utah-cities?period=2016. Publisher attribution: U.S. Census Bureau. Building Permits Survey: final annual estimates of new privately owned housing units authorized by permit-issuing place, including imputation. https://www2.census.gov/econ/bps/Place/West\%20Region/we2016a.txt. Retrieved 2026-10-12.},
}

RIS

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Which city has the highest housing units authorized by building permits?

Salt Lake City, UT, with 3,265 in 2016, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Which city has the lowest housing units authorized by building permits?

Woods Cross, UT, with 2 in 2016.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey: final annual estimates of new privately owned housing units authorized by permit-issuing place, including imputation. Retrieved 2026-10-12. 1 cities have no value for 2016 and are not ranked.