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

All 39 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/south-carolina-cities

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Hardeeville, SC | 1,106 |
| 2 | North Myrtle Beach, SC | 943 |
| 3 | Columbia, SC | 910 |
| 4 | Charleston, SC | 819 |
| 5 | Fort Mill, SC | 786 |
| 6 | Mauldin, SC | 712 |
| 7 | North Charleston, SC | 589 |
| 8 | Conway, SC | 560 |
| 9 | Bluffton, SC | 506 |
| 10 | Summerville, SC | 489 |
| 11 | Goose Creek, SC | 426 |
| 12 | Greer, SC | 409 |
| 13 | York, SC | 383 |
| 14 | Fountain Inn, SC | 340 |
| 15 | Greenville, SC | 329 |
| 16 | Florence, SC | 304 |
| 17 | Anderson, SC | 255 |
| 18 | Mount Pleasant, SC | 240 |
| 19 | Moncks Corner, SC | 237 |
| 20 | Easley, SC | 210 |
| 21 | Simpsonville, SC | 197 |
| 22 | North Augusta, SC | 194 |
| 23 | Myrtle Beach, SC | 189 |
| 23 | Rock Hill, SC | 189 |
| 25 | Hilton Head Island, SC | 133 |
| 26 | Aiken, SC | 132 |
| 27 | Beaufort, SC | 125 |
| 28 | West Columbia, SC | 116 |
| 29 | Tega Cay, SC | 88 |
| 30 | Lexington, SC | 67 |
| 31 | Cayce, SC | 63 |
| 32 | Gaffney, SC | 49 |
| 33 | Hanahan, SC | 39 |
| 34 | Clemson, SC | 38 |
| 35 | Spartanburg, SC | 33 |
| 36 | Port Royal, SC | 20 |
| 37 | Orangeburg, SC | 9 |
| 38 | Newberry, SC | 5 |
| 39 | Forest Acres, SC | 2 |