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    • Residential Construction Permits by County

    Metadata Updated: March 11, 2026

    This dataset contains data on permits for residential construction collected in the Census Bureau's Building Permits Survey. Data is aggregated to the County level. Data is only for final permits, not preliminary permits. Final permit data is published in May of the following year. Annual data are available from 1980 through the most recent reporting year, and may also contain imputed values. This dataset is part of the State of the Cities Data Systems (SOCDS).

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date March 1, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date March 11, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from HUD JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date March 1, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date March 11, 2026
    Publisher U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
    Maintainer
    Identifier da836467b4904711b14d74acbc4568be
    Data First Published 2020-11-18T19:44:43.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2023-11-16T21:47:19.186Z
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 025:00
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    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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    Harvest Source Id c98ee13b-1e1a-4350-a47e-1bf13aaa35d6
    Harvest Source Title HUD JSON
    Homepage URL https://hudgis-hud.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/da836467b4904711b14d74acbc4568be
    Old Spatial United States
    Program Code 025:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 68415fcba9c780f8a13c62f71ef475d607ba4d1c51f802a610c2e029c61e0b81
    Source Schema Version 1.1
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