The purpose of the Building Permits Survey (BPS) is to provide national, state, and local statistics on new privately-owned residential construction. The United States Code, Title 13, authorizes this survey, provides for voluntary responses, and provides an exception to confidentiality for public records. Data are available monthly, year-to-date, and annually at the national, state, CBSA (formerly MSA), county and place levels.
5/1/25 - Final annual estimates for 2024 of housing units authorized by building permits for the U.S. and by Census Region, Census Division, state, metropolitan area, county, permit-issuing place, and island areas are now available. Revised monthly estimates for the U.S. and Census Regions for the prior year which have been benchmarked to the final annual totals are also released. In addition, 2023 detailed data for Puerto Rico Municipios are now available in the 2023 island area file and data for total Puerto Rico is available in the 2023 state file. All other previously released 2023 data has not changed.
