Housing
Annual Housing Unit Estimates
Housing Unit Estimates Overview (or time series)
Annual Residential Building Permits
- Building Permits Overview (or time series)
- Permits with Change Overview (or time series)
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Annual Building Permit Database
- Contains data for Indiana counties, regions, Indiana custom regions, states and all U.S. counties
- 1990 forward data for Indiana areas and states
- 1999 forward for all U.S. counties
Background Information
These data are collected from individual permit offices, most of which are municipalities. The data are aggregated each year to the county level. The statistics are based on reports submitted by local building permit officials in response to a mail survey. They are obtained using Form C-404, Report of New Privately-Owned Residential Building or Zoning Permits Issued.
When a report is not received, missing data are either (1) obtained from the Survey of Use of Permits (SUP) which is used to collect information on housing starts, or (2) imputed. Data for SUP are available only for about 850 places for which Census Bureau field representatives list permits. Imputations are based on the assumption that the ratio of current month authorizations to those of a year ago should be the same for reporting and nonreporting places.
Monthly Residential Building Permits
Monthly Permit Database: Provides construction statistics by place and by county on new privately-owned residential housing units authorized by building permits.