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

All 26 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2025, so the places are comparable. 3 cities have no value for that period and are not ranked.

- 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/South%20Region/so2025a.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/South%20Region/so2025a.txt. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/single-family-building-permits/kentucky-cities

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Lexington, KY | 507 |
| 2 | Nicholasville, KY | 403 |
| 3 | Owensboro, KY | 183 |
| 4 | Bowling Green, KY | 114 |
| 5 | Berea, KY | 104 |
| 5 | Radcliff, KY | 104 |
| 7 | Richmond, KY | 99 |
| 8 | Elizabethtown, KY | 98 |
| 9 | Franklin, KY | 88 |
| 10 | Hopkinsville, KY | 85 |
| 11 | Covington, KY | 81 |
| 12 | Lawrenceburg, KY | 76 |
| 13 | Independence, KY | 70 |
| 14 | Henderson, KY | 47 |
| 15 | Erlanger, KY | 23 |
| 15 | Glasgow, KY | 23 |
| 17 | Newport, KY | 17 |
| 18 | Paducah, KY | 16 |
| 19 | Somerset, KY | 15 |
| 20 | Jeffersontown, KY | 14 |
| 21 | Murray, KY | 12 |
| 22 | Madisonville, KY | 10 |
| 23 | Campbellsville, KY | 9 |
| 24 | Fort Thomas, KY | 7 |
| 24 | Frankfort, KY | 7 |
| 26 | Ashland, KY | 3 |