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Housing & Residential Construction Characteristics
  - Housing & Building Permit Profiles

Guilford County, NC [37081]
  .. 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 99 89 100 156 85 139 100 128 111 119 84 127 1,337
  1 unit buildings 95 89 100 153 84 138 95 126 108 118 80 124 1,310
  2 unit buildings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  3-4 unit buildings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  5+ unit buildings 4 0 0 3 1 1 5 2 3 1 4 3 27
 Total Units 155 89 100 217 111 150 206 163 184 154 185 184 1,898
  in 1 unit buildings 95 89 100 153 84 138 95 126 108 118 80 124 1,310
  in 2 unit buildings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  in 3-4 unit buildings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  in 5+ unit buildings 60 0 0 64 27 12 111 37 76 36 105 60 588
 Total Value (K$) 36,638 24,281 23,796 37,221 25,304 37,807 36,184 37,094 34,972 32,200 34,139 31,563 391,197
  1 unit buildings 27,535 24,281 23,796 28,529 22,680 36,102 22,155 33,401 25,972 28,702 20,294 24,558 318,006
  2 unit buildings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  3-4 unit buildings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  5+ unit buildings 9,103 0 0 8,692 2,624 1,704 14,029 3,693 9,000 3,498 13,844 7,004 73,192

2016 Residential Construction; Housing Units Authorized & Value
For more information, detail & to compare areas use interactive table.
TypeJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecTotal
 Total Buildings 74 100 112 191 128 129 103 120 109 104 108 91 1,369
  1 unit buildings 73 97 103 186 122 123 102 113 103 102 104 89 1,317
  2 unit buildings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  3-4 unit buildings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  5+ unit buildings 1 3 9 5 6 6 1 7 6 2 4 2 52
 Total Units 99 150 241 344 221 315 115 178 283 138 152 213 2,449
  in 1 unit buildings 73 97 103 186 122 123 102 113 103 102 104 89 1,317
  in 2 unit buildings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  in 3-4 unit buildings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  in 5+ unit buildings 26 53 138 158 99 192 13 65 180 36 48 124 1,132
 Total Value (K$) 20,009 30,380 43,982 69,402 45,737 62,874 30,174 39,975 51,662 28,750 31,162 40,343 494,449
  1 unit buildings 17,482 24,056 26,311 47,050 31,860 37,955 28,817 31,900 27,604 24,278 24,979 23,995 346,287
  2 unit buildings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  3-4 unit buildings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  5+ unit buildings 2,526 6,324 17,671 22,352 13,877 24,918 1,357 8,075 24,059 4,472 6,183 16,348 148,162

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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