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Apartment share of new housing permits: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Apartment-building share of new housing permits, 2025 (%, derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in New housing units authorized by building permits by state, 2025, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-09

Download full table CSV Source: U.S. Census Bureau (Building Permits Survey, annual state data 2025 (st2025a.txt, estimates with imputation)) (opens in a new tab)Source: U.S. Census Bureau (Population Estimates Program, July 1, 2025 resident population (denominator)) (opens in a new tab)

National value: 32.4 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 86.2 %
RI 29.3 %
DE 13.5 %
CT 66.5 %
NJ 48 %
MD 26.7 %
MA 54.7 %
VT 38.2 %
NH 28.4 %

Lowest: 3.7 to 18.8 %
Group 2: 18.8 to 27.3 %
Group 3: 27.3 to 33.8 %
Group 4: 33.8 to 40.9 %
Highest: 40.9 to 86.2 %

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.

Note: Permits authorize construction but some projects start later or never; figures include Census Bureau imputation for non-reporting places.


1	District of Columbia	86.2
2	Connecticut	66.5
3	New York	65.7
4	Massachusetts	54.7
5	New Jersey	48
6	Colorado	46.4
7	Ohio	43.3
8	Washington	43
9	Nebraska	42.3
10	Wisconsin	41.2
11	Iowa	40.9
12	California	39.9
13	Vermont	38.2
14	Virginia	36.4
15	Montana	35.8
16	Minnesota	35.7
17	Florida	35.4
18	Utah	34.4
19	Kentucky	34.2
20	South Dakota	34
21	Illinois	33.8
22	Pennsylvania	33.7
23	Oregon	33.2
24	Arizona	32.4
25	Nevada	31
26	Indiana	29.3
26	Rhode Island	29.3
28	Hawaii	28.9
29	Texas	28.8
30	New Hampshire	28.4
31	Missouri	27.3
32	Michigan	27.2
33	Maine	26.9
34	Maryland	26.7
35	Arkansas	25.3
35	Georgia	25.3
37	North Dakota	25.1
38	Tennessee	24
39	Kansas	23.3
40	North Carolina	22.6
41	Alaska	18.8
42	Oklahoma	18.2
43	Alabama	17.3
43	Wyoming	17.3
45	Louisiana	17
46	Idaho	16.3
46	New Mexico	16.3
48	Delaware	13.5
49	South Carolina	11.3
50	Mississippi	10.6
51	West Virginia	3.7

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, annual state data 2025 (st2025a.txt, estimates with imputation)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, July 1, 2025 resident population (denominator). Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by apartment-building share of new housing permits, 2025 (%, derived) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, annual state data 2025 (st2025a.txt, estimates with imputation); rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-apartment-building-share-of-new-housing-permits-2025/

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