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

All 32 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2025, so the places are comparable. 1 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/louisiana-cities

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Baton Rouge, LA | 489 |
| 2 | Youngsville, LA | 388 |
| 3 | Bossier City, LA | 301 |
| 4 | New Orleans, LA | 210 |
| 5 | Lake Charles, LA | 195 |
| 6 | Carencro, LA | 194 |
| 7 | Shreveport, LA | 179 |
| 8 | Broussard, LA | 170 |
| 9 | Zachary, LA | 137 |
| 10 | Ruston, LA | 95 |
| 11 | Hammond, LA | 84 |
| 12 | Central, LA | 75 |
| 13 | Gonzales, LA | 70 |
| 14 | Thibodaux, LA | 44 |
| 15 | Sulphur, LA | 41 |
| 16 | Covington, LA | 37 |
| 17 | West Monroe, LA | 29 |
| 18 | Crowley, LA | 25 |
| 19 | Kenner, LA | 24 |
| 20 | Monroe, LA | 16 |
| 21 | New Iberia, LA | 14 |
| 22 | Pineville, LA | 10 |
| 23 | Baker, LA | 9 |
| 23 | Gretna, LA | 9 |
| 23 | Minden, LA | 9 |
| 26 | Alexandria, LA | 8 |
| 27 | Abbeville, LA | 7 |
| 27 | Slidell, LA | 7 |
| 29 | Natchitoches, LA | 6 |
| 30 | Morgan City, LA | 2 |
| 30 | Opelousas, LA | 2 |
| 32 | Mandeville, LA | 0 |