BUILDING PERMITS SURVEY Description

Availability: Order from Customer Services, (Tel. 301-763-INFO(4636); FAX 301-457-3842)

There are five different files available: Current Month; Monthly Cumulative; Annual Cumulative; Preliminary Annual Summary; and the Annual Summary.

Technical Documentation is included free with each order - $10 if purchased separately.

Data Development XVI-50

Description: The survey provides monthly and annual statistics on new construction of privately-owned residential, residential nonhousekeeping, nonresidential buildings, and residential and nonresidential additions and alterations. Numbers of buildings and units lost to private demolitions are also shown. Separate statistics are provided for residential buildings with one, two, three and four, and five or more family buildings.

Statistics for nonresidential construction are shown for twelve (12) separate categories including: industrial buildings, parking garages, hospitals, offices, schools, and stores.

Geography: Covers approximately 19,000 "permit-issuing places" in the United States, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Most of these places are municipalities; the remainder are counties, townships, or unincorporated towns. (Sometimes coverage varies from actual jurisdictional boundaries.)

Census contact: Content - Manufacturing and Construction Division 301-457-1321.