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Housing & Residential Construction Characteristics
  - Housing & Building Permit Profiles

Atlanta, GA [1304000]
  .. 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 ACS 5-Year Population & Housing Characteristics
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ItemValue
Total Population 448,901
  in Households 417,223
Total Housing Units 228,579
  Occupied 185,820
  Vacant 42,759
Housing Units by Units in Structure 
  1 Unit 102,616
  2 Unit 6,249
  3-4 Unit 9,584
  5+ Unit 108,653
  Mobile home 1,274
  Boat, RV, other 203

Model-based Population & Housing Characteristics
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ItemCen 2010201020112012201320142015
Total Population 420,003 422,753 432,092 444,002 448,312 456,143 463,878

2015 Residential Construction; Housing Units Authorized & Value
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TypeJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecTotal
 Total Buildings 36 84 83 55 57 64 103 74 64 74 53 58 805
  1 unit buildings 31 82 81 45 52 56 99 73 63 72 50 56 760
  2 unit buildings 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 4
  3-4 unit buildings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  5+ unit buildings 5 2 2 10 5 8 3 0 0 2 2 2 41
 Total Units 271 472 615 404 1,280 904 755 75 65 520 667 669 6,697
  in 1 unit buildings 31 82 81 45 52 56 99 73 63 72 50 56 760
  in 2 unit buildings 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 0 2 0 8
  in 3-4 unit buildings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  in 5+ unit buildings 240 390 534 359 1,228 848 654 0 0 448 615 613 5,929
 Total Value (K$) 21,706 91,498 84,063 61,258 178,776 112,136 113,137 16,949 14,697 51,835 105,683 100,703 952,443
  1 unit buildings 6,683 17,679 17,463 10,155 11,735 12,637 22,341 16,474 14,217 16,248 11,283 12,637 169,553
  2 unit buildings 0 0 0 0 0 0 400 475 480 0 600 0 1,955
  3-4 unit buildings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  5+ unit buildings 15,022 73,819 66,600 51,103 167,041 99,499 90,396 0 0 35,587 93,800 88,066 780,934

2016 Residential Construction; Housing Units Authorized & Value
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TypeJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecTotal
 Total Buildings 75 92 73 78 38 102 101 91 51 73 63 70 907
  1 unit buildings 71 89 66 76 32 84 100 90 51 69 60 67 855
  2 unit buildings 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
  3-4 unit buildings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  5+ unit buildings 4 3 7 2 4 17 1 1 0 4 3 3 49
 Total Units 1,056 722 654 612 290 1,711 324 415 51 1,233 496 463 8,027
  in 1 unit buildings 71 89 66 76 32 84 100 90 51 69 60 67 855
  in 2 unit buildings 0 0 0 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
  in 3-4 unit buildings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  in 5+ unit buildings 985 633 588 536 254 1,625 224 325 0 1,164 436 396 7,166
 Total Value (K$) 169,945 85,432 64,494 45,617 27,384 239,669 33,020 70,507 11,621 141,382 123,840 96,088 1,109,000
  1 unit buildings 16,022 20,084 14,894 17,317 7,291 19,140 22,786 20,507 11,621 15,722 13,671 15,266 194,323
  2 unit buildings 0 0 0 0 427 250 0 0 0 0 0 0 677
  3-4 unit buildings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  5+ unit buildings 153,922 65,347 49,600 28,300 19,666 220,279 10,234 50,000 0 125,660 110,169 80,822 914,000

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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