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

All 89 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)
- 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/new-york-cities

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | New York, NY | 169 |
| 2 | Saratoga Springs, NY | 62 |
| 3 | Rochester, NY | 51 |
| 4 | Ithaca, NY | 44 |
| 5 | Buffalo, NY | 31 |
| 5 | Harrison, NY | 31 |
| 7 | Woodbury, NY | 27 |
| 8 | Rye, NY | 24 |
| 9 | Sleepy Hollow, NY | 23 |
| 10 | Troy, NY | 21 |
| 11 | Newburgh, NY | 20 |
| 12 | North Tonawanda, NY | 19 |
| 13 | Yonkers, NY | 18 |
| 14 | Long Beach, NY | 15 |
| 15 | New Rochelle, NY | 14 |
| 16 | Kingston, NY | 13 |
| 17 | Lake Grove, NY | 12 |
| 18 | Mamaroneck, NY | 11 |
| 18 | Spring Valley, NY | 11 |
| 20 | Syracuse, NY | 10 |
| 21 | Chestnut Ridge, NY | 9 |
| 21 | Freeport, NY | 9 |
| 23 | Airmont, NY | 8 |
| 23 | Plattsburgh, NY | 8 |
| 25 | Dobbs Ferry, NY | 7 |
| 25 | Massapequa Park, NY | 7 |
| 25 | Valley Stream, NY | 7 |
| 28 | Babylon, NY | 6 |
| 28 | Hempstead, NY | 6 |
| 30 | Beacon, NY | 5 |
| 30 | Glens Falls, NY | 5 |
| 30 | Tonawanda, NY | 5 |
| 30 | White Plains, NY | 5 |
| 34 | Lindenhurst, NY | 4 |
| 34 | Watertown, NY | 4 |
| 36 | Canandaigua, NY | 3 |
| 36 | Glen Cove, NY | 3 |
| 36 | Great Neck, NY | 3 |
| 36 | Lockport, NY | 3 |
| 36 | Middletown, NY | 3 |
| 41 | Cortland, NY | 2 |
| 41 | East Rockaway, NY | 2 |
| 41 | Geneva, NY | 2 |
| 41 | Haverstraw, NY | 2 |
| 41 | Olean, NY | 2 |
| 41 | Oneida, NY | 2 |
| 41 | Patchogue, NY | 2 |
| 41 | Port Chester, NY | 2 |
| 49 | Albany, NY | 1 |
| 49 | Auburn, NY | 1 |
| 49 | Batavia, NY | 1 |
| 49 | Cohoes, NY | 1 |
| 49 | Floral Park, NY | 1 |
| 49 | Jamestown, NY | 1 |
| 49 | Johnson City, NY | 1 |
| 49 | Lackawanna, NY | 1 |
| 49 | Lynbrook, NY | 1 |
| 49 | Mount Kisco, NY | 1 |
| 49 | Oneonta, NY | 1 |
| 49 | Ossining, NY | 1 |
| 49 | Rockville Centre, NY | 1 |
| 49 | Rome, NY | 1 |
| 49 | Tarrytown, NY | 1 |
| 64 | Amsterdam, NY | 0 |
| 64 | Binghamton, NY | 0 |
| 64 | Corning, NY | 0 |
| 64 | Depew, NY | 0 |
| 64 | Dunkirk, NY | 0 |
| 64 | Elmira, NY | 0 |
| 64 | Endicott, NY | 0 |
| 64 | Fulton, NY | 0 |
| 64 | Garden City, NY | 0 |
| 64 | Gloversville, NY | 0 |
| 64 | Kenmore, NY | 0 |
| 64 | Kiryas Joel, NY | 0 |
| 64 | Mineola, NY | 0 |
| 64 | Mount Vernon, NY | 0 |
| 64 | New Hyde Park, NY | 0 |
| 64 | New Square, NY | 0 |
| 64 | Niagara Falls, NY | 0 |
| 64 | Oswego, NY | 0 |
| 64 | Peekskill, NY | 0 |
| 64 | Poughkeepsie, NY | 0 |
| 64 | Schenectady, NY | 0 |
| 64 | Suffern, NY | 0 |
| 64 | Utica, NY | 0 |
| 64 | Watervliet, NY | 0 |
| 64 | West Haverstraw, NY | 0 |
| 64 | Westbury, NY | 0 |