Rankings · Place

Lowest homes permitted by state

Housing units authorised in the latest year.

This measure has no better end. The order describes the states, it does not rank them — see the other direction.

The raw count behind the rate above, for readers who want the absolute scale of building rather than its intensity. Covers privately-owned residential construction in permit-issuing places, which the Census puts at more than 99% of what gets built.

  1. 1Alaska848
  2. 2District of Columbia1,591
  3. 3Rhode Island1,738
  4. 4Wyoming2,238
  5. 5Vermont2,294
  6. 6North Dakota2,440
  7. 7Hawaii3,708
  8. 8West Virginia3,962
  9. 9New Mexico4,995
  10. 10New Hampshire5,030
  11. 11Montana5,258
  12. 12South Dakota5,305
  13. 13Delaware6,468
  14. 14Maine6,865
  15. 15Connecticut7,273
  16. 16Mississippi8,405
  17. 17Kansas10,299
  18. 18Nebraska10,596
  19. 19Massachusetts12,477
  20. 20Maryland13,358
  21. 21Iowa13,664
  22. 22Louisiana14,203
  23. 23Oregon14,670
  24. 24Kentucky14,940
  25. 25Arkansas15,492
  26. 26Oklahoma15,513
  27. 27Missouri17,474
  28. 28Idaho17,944
  29. 29Nevada18,540
  30. 30Illinois18,551
  31. 31Alabama19,061
  32. 32Minnesota20,947
  33. 33Michigan22,940
  34. 34Wisconsin25,569
  35. 35Pennsylvania25,709
  36. 36Utah26,775
  37. 37New Jersey27,661
  38. 38Indiana29,076
  39. 39Virginia33,094
  40. 40Ohio33,640
  41. 41Colorado33,754
  42. 42Washington34,913
  43. 43New York38,667
  44. 44Tennessee43,374
  45. 45South Carolina45,862
  46. 46Arizona51,532
  47. 47Georgia61,196
  48. 48North Carolina86,167
  49. 49California103,856
  50. 50Florida178,297
  51. 51Texas210,217
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau Building Permits Survey. · How this is built