# Counties in West Virginia by housing units authorized by building permits, 2025

All 54 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/west-virginia-counties
- CSV: https://invokely.ai/download/rankings/building-permit-housing-units/west-virginia-counties.csv

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Jefferson County | 1,324 |
| 2 | Berkeley County | 1,140 |
| 3 | Harrison County | 192 |
| 4 | Morgan County | 130 |
| 5 | Hampshire County | 129 |
| 6 | Putnam County | 118 |
| 7 | Greenbrier County | 108 |
| 8 | Kanawha County | 97 |
| 9 | Wood County | 87 |
| 10 | Cabell County | 71 |
| 11 | Hardy County | 66 |
| 12 | Wayne County | 61 |
| 13 | Raleigh County | 50 |
| 14 | Mineral County | 43 |
| 15 | Ritchie County | 32 |
| 16 | Upshur County | 30 |
| 17 | Fayette County | 27 |
| 18 | Grant County | 23 |
| 18 | Pendleton County | 23 |
| 20 | Monongalia County | 22 |
| 21 | Roane County | 21 |
| 22 | Wyoming County | 20 |
| 23 | Hancock County | 14 |
| 24 | Summers County | 12 |
| 24 | Wirt County | 12 |
| 26 | Braxton County | 11 |
| 26 | Clay County | 11 |
| 26 | Lincoln County | 11 |
| 29 | Marion County | 10 |
| 30 | Preston County | 8 |
| 31 | Mason County | 7 |
| 31 | Pocahontas County | 7 |
| 33 | Boone County | 6 |
| 33 | Calhoun County | 6 |
| 33 | Gilmer County | 6 |
| 36 | Lewis County | 5 |
| 36 | Mercer County | 5 |
| 38 | Monroe County | 3 |
| 38 | Ohio County | 3 |
| 38 | Pleasants County | 3 |
| 41 | Barbour County | 2 |
| 41 | Nicholas County | 2 |
| 41 | Wetzel County | 2 |
| 44 | Logan County | 1 |
| 44 | Tucker County | 1 |
| 46 | Brooke County | 0 |
| 46 | Jackson County | 0 |
| 46 | Marshall County | 0 |
| 46 | McDowell County | 0 |
| 46 | Mingo County | 0 |
| 46 | Randolph County | 0 |
| 46 | Taylor County | 0 |
| 46 | Tyler County | 0 |
| 46 | Webster County | 0 |