Housing units authorized by building permits growth rate (year-over-year)

RecordSTO-ZA4K2KA43P-NZRHFQ9CZ5-4MZNJ2

3.5%
estimate

United States · August 2026

Housing units authorized by building permits growth rate in the United States (year-over-year) was 3.5% in August 2026 (Census Bureau).

Original source
Publisher
Census Bureau
Authority tier
T1 Official
Locator
Building Permits
Retrieved
15 Sep 2026
Status
Verified

What the source says

This is 2.7 percent below the revised July rate of 1,433,000, but is 3.5 percent above the August 2025 rate of 1,347,000.

Checked: the figure 3.5% is stated in this passage. If it does not match, the extraction is wrong and we want to know.

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APA

U.S. Census Bureau. (2026). New Residential Construction Press Release. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://www.census.gov/construction/nrc/current/index.html. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_ZA4K2KA43PNZRHFQ9CZ54MZNJ2

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MLA
U.S. Census Bureau. "New Residential Construction Press Release." 2026, https://www.census.gov/construction/nrc/current/index.html. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_ZA4K2KA43PNZRHFQ9CZ54MZNJ2.
Chicago
U.S. Census Bureau. "New Residential Construction Press Release." 2026. https://www.census.gov/construction/nrc/current/index.html. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_ZA4K2KA43PNZRHFQ9CZ54MZNJ2.
BibTeX
@misc{censusbureau2026housing4mznj2, author = {{U.S. Census Bureau}}, title = {New Residential Construction Press Release}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_ZA4K2KA43PNZRHFQ9CZ54MZNJ2}, note = {Original source: https://www.census.gov/construction/nrc/current/index.html. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }

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Chain of custody
Record: STO-ZA4K2KA43P-NZRHFQ9CZ5-4MZNJ2 T1 Official

Primary source

Publisher
U.S. Census Bureau · homepage ↗
Authority tier
Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
Report
New Residential Construction Press Release
Type
Press release
Published
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Locator
Building Permits
Retrieved
15 September 2026
Link status
Reachable (HTTP 200)
Report licence
See source

Verification

Status
Verified
Review protocol
pipeline:quote-verified-v2
Checked on
27 September 2026
Last revision
27 September 2026
Permanent URL
/stat/stat_ZA4K2KA43PNZRHFQ9CZ54MZNJ2