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Housing & Residential Construction Characteristics
  - Housing & Building Permit Profiles

Larimer County, CO [08069]
  .. Building Permits Profile
  .. Updated 03/06/17

Building permits, new authorized residential construction, data are a leading economic indicator. An increase in the number of building permits can signal the start or increase in economic activity. These data are important to businesses, governments, policy-makers and stakeholders that get down to individual residents - how is my city changing? Building permits data are collected by thousands of cities, counties and metros across the country. Many permit issuing places tabulate these data monthly, others report the data annually. These data can provide a continuous measure of the health of a city, county and region.

Building permits data tell us about the formation of the size and characteristics of the housing stock at the county and sub-county level. Building permits are the first step in the sequence of building permits to housing starts to housing completions. The number of housing units built in non-permit areas is about 2.5 percent of the total -- building permit data provide a fairly comprehensive measure.

This profile is focused on monthly building permits for one area. The table presented below shows rows for the number of buildings, units and value for each of single unit in structure, 2-units in structure, 3-4 units in structure and 5 or more units in structure. The total column shows the total for the 12 most current months.

To view this area in context of other areas use the interactive table.

2015 Residential Construction; Housing Units Authorized & Value
For more information, detail & to compare areas use interactive table.
TypeJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecTotal
 Total Buildings 141 123 117 175 144 221 176 145 171 116 102 92 1,723
  1 unit buildings 133 119 115 171 140 214 171 138 166 116 95 86 1,664
  2 unit buildings 8 2 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 0 1 1 26
  3-4 unit buildings 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 5
  5+ unit buildings 0 2 0 1 3 6 1 3 3 0 6 3 28
 Total Units 149 137 119 238 162 596 185 173 187 116 179 137 2,378
  in 1 unit buildings 133 119 115 171 140 214 171 138 166 116 95 86 1,664
  in 2 unit buildings 16 4 4 4 2 2 6 6 4 0 2 2 52
  in 3-4 unit buildings 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 7 16
  in 5+ unit buildings 0 14 0 60 20 380 5 26 17 0 82 42 646
 Total Value (K$) 37,205 35,339 31,091 53,348 39,701 99,291 47,813 40,600 50,474 33,813 39,850 29,921 538,446
  1 unit buildings 34,744 32,821 30,360 45,696 35,961 55,830 45,958 36,952 47,249 33,813 25,093 22,474 446,951
  2 unit buildings 2,461 814 732 414 797 277 651 880 768 0 235 277 8,306
  3-4 unit buildings 0 0 0 676 0 0 491 491 0 0 0 1,120 2,778
  5+ unit buildings 0 1,703 0 6,563 2,943 43,184 713 2,277 2,456 0 14,522 6,050 80,412

2016 Residential Construction; Housing Units Authorized & Value
For more information, detail & to compare areas use interactive table.
TypeJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecTotal
 Total Buildings 76 118 153 168 188 158 159 187 136 116 186 118 1,763
  1 unit buildings 76 112 148 167 178 143 140 174 93 101 168 116 1,616
  2 unit buildings 0 3 2 0 2 2 2 2 4 0 0 1 18
  3-4 unit buildings 0 2 3 1 4 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 16
  5+ unit buildings 0 1 0 0 4 10 14 11 39 15 18 1 113
 Total Units 76 131 164 171 250 367 468 461 608 271 423 128 3,518
  in 1 unit buildings 76 112 148 167 178 143 140 174 93 101 168 116 1,616
  in 2 unit buildings 0 6 4 0 4 4 4 4 8 0 0 2 36
  in 3-4 unit buildings 0 8 12 4 16 12 9 0 0 0 0 0 61
  in 5+ unit buildings 0 5 0 0 52 208 315 283 507 170 255 10 1,805
 Total Value (K$) 20,623 32,214 42,985 46,734 61,719 73,520 77,077 72,373 87,471 43,836 69,308 34,189 662,048
  1 unit buildings 20,623 28,933 40,057 45,971 51,779 43,078 43,138 44,384 27,690 26,033 42,943 32,158 446,787
  2 unit buildings 0 987 673 0 718 608 507 664 989 0 0 244 5,392
  3-4 unit buildings 0 1,489 2,254 763 2,821 902 1,500 0 0 0 0 0 9,729
  5+ unit buildings 0 805 0 0 6,400 28,932 31,932 27,325 58,792 17,803 26,365 1,786 200,140

Do you need more geographically detailed data or analyses? We can geocode building permits by address. Using these geocoded data we can summarized the data by ZIP code area or census tract. We can also use the data in a GIS application so that you can view the data in a map and perform related geospatial applications. Associate the building permit data with other types of geography and subject matter.

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Related Sections & Data
  • Metro New Residential Construction -- main section
  • Metropolitan Areas -- geographic, demographic, economic characteristics
  • Metro Situation & Outlook Reports -- view individual metro characteristics
      .. click metro/CBSA "Code" in column 3 to view a metro report
  • U.S. States & Metros Interactive Tables -- view, rank, compare metros
  • Mapping Statistical Data by Metro

About the Data
New authorized residential construction monthly time series data enable analysts to examine trends and can provide insights into business cycles, upturns and downturns. It may take four months to establish an underlying trend for building permit authorizations, five months for total starts and six months for total completions.

Data on construction authorized by building permits are based upon reports submitted by local building permit officials. We use two sources of reported data.
  • C-404, "Report of Building or Zoning Permits Issued and Local Public Construction"
    .. data updated monthly based on the Census Bureau mail survey of permit issuing cities/places and counties.
    .. these data have a 2-month lag from reference month to data access date.
  • DIrect collection of permits issued for current month by ProximityOne
    .. updated monthly based on ProximityOne direct data collection from permit issuing agencies.
    .. these reduce the lag in most recent data from 2 months to one month.

Single Family Houses - Includes all detached one-family houses. Also includes all attached one-family houses separated by a wall that extends from ground to roof with no common heating system or interstructural public utilities. Includes prefabricated, sectionalized, panelized, and modular homes which are manufactured partially off-site, but which are transported and assembled at the construction site. Excludes mobile homes.

Two-Family Buildings - Includes all buildings containing two housing units which may be one above the other or side-by-side. If built side-by-side, they (1) do not have a wall that extends from ground to roof or (2) share a heating system, or (3) have interstructural public utilities such as water supply/sewage disposal.

Three- and Four-Family Buildings - Includes all buildings containing three or four housing units. If built side-by-side, they (1) do not have a wall that extends from ground to roof, or (2) share a heating system, or (3) have interstructural public utilities such as water supply/sewage disposal.

Five-or-More Family Buildings - Includes all buildings containing five or more housing units. If built side-by-side, they (1) do not have a wall that extends from ground to roof, or (2) share a heating system, or (3) have interstructural public utilities such as water supply/sewage disposal.

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