# Cities in New Mexico 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. 2 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/West%20Region/we2025a.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/West%20Region/we2025a.txt. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/single-family-building-permits/new-mexico-cities

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Rio Rancho, NM | 875 |
| 2 | Las Cruces, NM | 553 |
| 3 | Albuquerque, NM | 525 |
| 4 | Santa Fe, NM | 251 |
| 5 | Los Lunas, NM | 241 |
| 6 | Carlsbad, NM | 162 |
| 7 | Hobbs, NM | 143 |
| 8 | Roswell, NM | 54 |
| 9 | Farmington, NM | 40 |
| 10 | Clovis, NM | 22 |
| 11 | Artesia, NM | 21 |
| 12 | Sunland Park, NM | 18 |
| 13 | Deming, NM | 2 |
| 14 | Gallup, NM | 0 |
| 14 | Las Vegas, NM | 0 |
| 14 | Portales, NM | 0 |