# Cities in Nebraska 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/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/nebraska-cities

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Omaha, NE | 1,557 |
| 2 | Lincoln, NE | 859 |
| 3 | Papillion, NE | 571 |
| 4 | Columbus, NE | 146 |
| 5 | Bellevue, NE | 116 |
| 6 | Kearney, NE | 94 |
| 7 | Hastings, NE | 57 |
| 8 | Grand Island, NE | 56 |
| 9 | Norfolk, NE | 44 |
| 10 | Fremont, NE | 31 |
| 10 | South Sioux City, NE | 31 |
| 12 | North Platte, NE | 29 |
| 13 | Lexington, NE | 10 |
| 14 | Scottsbluff, NE | 8 |
| 15 | Beatrice, NE | 7 |
| 16 | La Vista, NE | 1 |