# Cities in West Virginia by single-family housing units authorized by building permits, 2025

All 13 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/west-virginia-cities

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Martinsburg, WV | 32 |
| 2 | Charleston, WV | 7 |
| 2 | South Charleston, WV | 7 |
| 4 | Morgantown, WV | 6 |
| 5 | Fairmont, WV | 5 |
| 6 | Parkersburg, WV | 4 |
| 6 | Weirton, WV | 4 |
| 8 | Vienna, WV | 3 |
| 8 | Wheeling, WV | 3 |
| 10 | Huntington, WV | 2 |
| 11 | Beckley, WV | 1 |
| 11 | Clarksburg, WV | 1 |
| 11 | St. Albans, WV | 1 |