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

All 38 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/kansas-cities

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Wichita, KS | 632 |
| 2 | Olathe, KS | 527 |
| 3 | Spring Hill, KS | 370 |
| 4 | Overland Park, KS | 304 |
| 5 | Lenexa, KS | 230 |
| 6 | Kansas City, KS | 210 |
| 7 | Gardner, KS | 153 |
| 8 | Lawrence, KS | 125 |
| 9 | Shawnee, KS | 112 |
| 10 | Salina, KS | 90 |
| 11 | Prairie Village, KS | 73 |
| 12 | Manhattan, KS | 72 |
| 13 | Leawood, KS | 71 |
| 14 | Topeka, KS | 64 |
| 15 | Bel Aire, KS | 60 |
| 16 | Andover, KS | 55 |
| 16 | Ottawa, KS | 55 |
| 18 | Dodge City, KS | 51 |
| 19 | Derby, KS | 46 |
| 20 | Junction City, KS | 40 |
| 21 | Garden City, KS | 39 |
| 22 | Hays, KS | 27 |
| 23 | El Dorado, KS | 26 |
| 24 | Pittsburg, KS | 25 |
| 25 | McPherson, KS | 24 |
| 26 | Atchison, KS | 19 |
| 27 | Newton, KS | 18 |
| 28 | Liberal, KS | 15 |
| 29 | Hutchinson, KS | 9 |
| 30 | Emporia, KS | 7 |
| 30 | Leavenworth, KS | 7 |
| 32 | Winfield, KS | 5 |
| 33 | Great Bend, KS | 4 |
| 33 | Mission, KS | 4 |
| 35 | Lansing, KS | 3 |
| 35 | Merriam, KS | 3 |
| 37 | Arkansas City, KS | 2 |
| 38 | Haysville, KS | 0 |