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

All 11 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/Northeast%20Region/ne2025a.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/Northeast%20Region/ne2025a.txt. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/single-family-building-permits/maine-cities

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Saco, ME | 56 |
| 2 | Portland, ME | 42 |
| 3 | Biddeford, ME | 40 |
| 4 | Sanford, ME | 38 |
| 5 | Bangor, ME | 33 |
| 6 | Lewiston, ME | 32 |
| 7 | Auburn, ME | 31 |
| 7 | Waterville, ME | 31 |
| 9 | Westbrook, ME | 27 |
| 10 | Augusta, ME | 26 |
| 11 | South Portland, ME | 21 |