The places building the most new homes: building permits per resident
Port Wentworth, GA ranks first by housing units permitted in 2025 per 1,000 residents (88.7). Ranked: 3,116 places with 10,000 or more residents in 2020 that reported 12 months of permits. Units in building permits issued by the place's permit office; a permitted unit is not always built.
Which U.S. places permitted the most new homes per resident in 2025?
The places building the most new homes: building permits per resident, first to fifth: Port Wentworth, GA (88.7), Florida City, FL (58.9), Whitestown, IN (56.1), Minneola, FL (54.8) and Manor, TX (51.2).
The places building the most new homes: building permits per resident, by housing units permitted in 2025 per 1,000 residents.
Rank
Place
Type
Housing units permitted in 2025 per 1,000 residents
Source: Census Bureau Building Permits Survey, annual place files 2025; PEP Vintage 2025 · Census Bureau source
How is this ranking made?
One figure is read for each of the places with 10,000 or more residents in 2020 that reported 12 months of permits: the housing units permitted in 2025 per 1,000 residents. The Census Bureau publishes these estimates without a margin of error, so every place in the set is ranked. Equal published figures share a rank. A ranking measures one number; it is not a judgment of a place.
Towns and townships are ranked beside cities, villages and census-designated places, and a census-designated place can lie inside a township, so one area can appear twice, once as each.
Across the 100 places shown, the housing units permitted in 2025 per 1,000 residents runs from 18.1 (Lancaster, OH) to 88.7 (Port Wentworth, GA); the middle place on the list stands at 23.1.
Source: PlainCities ranking method applied to the Census Bureau Building Permits Survey, annual place files 2025; PEP Vintage 2025 · How ranks are computed