Arizona building permits issued
Monthly permits for new privately-owned residential construction in the Arizona jurisdictions PermitBase covers — housing units authorized, buildings, and construction valuation. This is Census survey data on new-home construction, not total permit volume (commercial permits and remodels are not counted).
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey (BPS) · data through 2026-05
Latest month (2026-05)
950
housing units authorized · $335.4M valuation
Year to date
5,826
housing units authorized · $1,666M valuation
Coverage
10
jurisdictions tracked · 8 reported the latest month
Sum of covered PermitBase jurisdictions only (not a full-state total). County-level jurisdictions overlapping covered cities are excluded to avoid double counting. Non-reporting jurisdictions are omitted from sums, never zero-filled.
Permits by jurisdiction
Housing units authorized for new residential construction. Ranked by trailing-12-month units; jurisdictions that did not report to the Census Bureau show “no data reported” — never assumed to be zero.
| # | Jurisdiction | Latest month units | Trailing 12 mo units | YTD units |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unincorporated Maricopa Countycounty-wide totals | 1,727 | 28,251 | 9,690 |
| 2 | Phoenix | 540 | 9,023 | 2,889 |
| 3 | Surprise | 195 | 3,017 | 1,001 |
| 4 | Scottsdale | 15 | 1,587(11 mo) | 228 |
| 5 | Peoria | 60 | 1,347 | 652 |
| 6 | Mesa | 91 | 1,141 | 614 |
| 7 | Gilbert | 12 | 891 | 124 |
| 8 | Glendale | 29 | 475 | 245 |
| 9 | Chandler | 8 | 162(11 mo) | 73 |
| — | Tempe | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
County-wide rows join the Census county file and include every permit office in that county (incorporated cities included); their published estimates may include Census imputation for non-reporting offices. Every figure on this page traces to a specific Census BPS source file — see the PermitBase activity dataset manifest.