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Lowest multifamily share by state

Share of permitted homes in multifamily buildings.

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

How much of the new housing is flats and multi-unit buildings rather than detached houses. A useful read on what a place is becoming: a county permitting mostly single houses is spreading outward, one permitting mostly multifamily is densifying. Withheld below 25 units authorised, where a couple of duplexes would read as a construction boom in flats.

  1. 1West Virginia8.6%
  2. 2Mississippi12.8%
  3. 3South Carolina13.0%
  4. 4Delaware16.2%
  5. 5Alabama19.2%
  6. 6Louisiana21.2%
  7. 7Idaho21.4%
  8. 8Wyoming21.6%
  9. 9North Carolina24.2%
  10. 10Oklahoma25.1%
  11. 11Tennessee26.0%
  12. 12Georgia27.5%
  13. 13North Dakota27.6%
  14. 14New Mexico29.1%
  15. 15Alaska29.4%
  16. 16Maryland30.1%
  17. 17Indiana31.6%
  18. 18Maine32.3%
  19. 19Michigan32.7%
  20. 20Texas33.1%
  21. 21Arkansas33.4%
  22. 22Missouri34.3%
  23. 23Nevada34.3%
  24. 24Hawaii34.7%
  25. 25New Hampshire34.8%
  26. 26Arizona35.2%
  27. 27South Dakota37.4%
  28. 28Utah37.4%
  29. 29Florida37.6%
  30. 30Virginia38.1%
  31. 31Oregon38.3%
  32. 32Minnesota38.4%
  33. 33Pennsylvania38.5%
  34. 34Kansas40.3%
  35. 35Kentucky40.6%
  36. 36Illinois41.4%
  37. 37Vermont43.8%
  38. 38California44.4%
  39. 39Iowa45.9%
  40. 40Nebraska47.0%
  41. 41Wisconsin47.6%
  42. 42Colorado48.4%
  43. 43Ohio48.4%
  44. 44Montana48.7%
  45. 45Washington49.1%
  46. 46New Jersey53.6%
  47. 47Rhode Island58.0%
  48. 48Massachusetts59.8%
  49. 49New York70.3%
  50. 50Connecticut71.4%
  51. 51District of Columbia88.6%
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau Building Permits Survey. · How this is built