# Cities in Iowa by single-family housing units authorized by building permits, 2025

All 40 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `building_permit_single_family_units`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Annual number of new privately owned housing units in 1-unit structures (detached and attached single-family homes) authorized by building permits, from the US Census Bureau Building Permits Survey.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey: final annual estimates of new privately owned housing units in 1-unit structures authorized by permit-issuing place, including imputation (https://www2.census.gov/econ/bps/Place/Midwest%20Region/mw2025a.txt)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/us-census-bureau
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. Building Permits Survey: final annual estimates of new privately owned housing units in 1-unit structures authorized by permit-issuing place, including imputation. https://www2.census.gov/econ/bps/Place/Midwest%20Region/mw2025a.txt. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/single-family-building-permits/iowa-cities

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Ankeny, IA | 668 |
| 2 | Waukee, IA | 480 |
| 3 | Urbandale, IA | 431 |
| 4 | West Des Moines, IA | 252 |
| 5 | Des Moines, IA | 221 |
| 6 | Altoona, IA | 183 |
| 7 | Norwalk, IA | 179 |
| 8 | North Liberty, IA | 169 |
| 9 | Grimes, IA | 134 |
| 10 | Cedar Rapids, IA | 126 |
| 11 | Johnston, IA | 122 |
| 12 | Sioux City, IA | 110 |
| 13 | Marion, IA | 98 |
| 14 | Iowa City, IA | 89 |
| 15 | Cedar Falls, IA | 86 |
| 16 | Pella, IA | 73 |
| 17 | Bettendorf, IA | 70 |
| 18 | Indianola, IA | 68 |
| 19 | Ames, IA | 65 |
| 20 | Coralville, IA | 62 |
| 21 | Council Bluffs, IA | 60 |
| 22 | Davenport, IA | 55 |
| 23 | Dubuque, IA | 46 |
| 24 | Waterloo, IA | 44 |
| 25 | Clive, IA | 40 |
| 26 | Pleasant Hill, IA | 34 |
| 27 | Boone, IA | 30 |
| 28 | Newton, IA | 25 |
| 29 | Muscatine, IA | 15 |
| 30 | Le Mars, IA | 13 |
| 31 | Clinton, IA | 12 |
| 32 | Burlington, IA | 10 |
| 33 | Spencer, IA | 7 |
| 34 | Carroll, IA | 6 |
| 34 | Oskaloosa, IA | 6 |
| 36 | Marshalltown, IA | 5 |
| 36 | Mason City, IA | 5 |
| 38 | Fort Dodge, IA | 4 |
| 39 | Ottumwa, IA | 3 |
| 40 | Storm Lake, IA | 2 |