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

All 14 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/south-dakota-cities

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Sioux Falls, SD | 832 |
| 2 | Rapid City, SD | 230 |
| 3 | Brookings, SD | 94 |
| 4 | Spearfish, SD | 88 |
| 5 | Harrisburg, SD | 84 |
| 6 | Watertown, SD | 83 |
| 7 | Box Elder, SD | 75 |
| 8 | Brandon, SD | 47 |
| 9 | Aberdeen, SD | 39 |
| 10 | Mitchell, SD | 33 |
| 11 | Yankton, SD | 16 |
| 12 | Pierre, SD | 13 |
| 13 | Huron, SD | 9 |
| 14 | Vermillion, SD | 6 |