The purpose of the Building Permits Survey (BPS) is to provide national, state, and local statistics on new privately-owned residential construction. The United States Code, Title 13, authorizes this survey, provides for voluntary responses, and provides an exception to confidentiality for public records. Data are available monthly, year-to-date, and annually at the national, state, CBSA (formerly MSA), county and place levels.
2/26/25 - Notice of methodology change: With the January 2025 Monthly Building Permits Survey release on February 26, 2025, the Building Permits survey has made modifications to the methodology for imputation. The previous process calculated imputation factors by region and the new process will calculate factors at a mix of division and large individual states. For additional details on this change, see our imputation section of our methodology page.
