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

All 16 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/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/maryland-cities

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Frederick, MD | 452 |
| 2 | Baltimore, MD | 254 |
| 3 | La Plata, MD | 165 |
| 4 | Havre de Grace, MD | 141 |
| 5 | Laurel, MD | 112 |
| 6 | Rockville, MD | 99 |
| 7 | Aberdeen, MD | 83 |
| 8 | Easton, MD | 60 |
| 9 | Annapolis, MD | 38 |
| 9 | Elkton, MD | 38 |
| 11 | Salisbury, MD | 33 |
| 12 | Cambridge, MD | 23 |
| 13 | Hagerstown, MD | 22 |
| 14 | Cumberland, MD | 7 |
| 15 | Bel Air, MD | 5 |
| 16 | Gaithersburg, MD | 0 |