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 2026-08
State summary
State building-activity summary
- Latest month (2026-08)
- 3,368 units
- Year to date
- 22,221 units
- Coverage
- 99 jurisdictions
$968.9M valuation latest month · $6,709.5M valuation year to date · 48 of 99 jurisdictions 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.
Monthly trend
Units authorized per month across the jurisdictions PermitBase covers. Months reported by only some offices are marked, because a partially-reported month is not a quieter month.
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 | 3,076 | 29,326 | 17,747 |
| 2 | Phoenix | 907 | 10,365 | 5,781 |
| 3 | Unincorporated Pinal Countycounty-wide totals | 478 | 7,578 | 5,276 |
| 4 | Unincorporated Pima Countycounty-wide totals | 306 | 4,828 | 3,150 |
| 5 | Surprise | 570 | 2,844 | 2,056 |
| 6 | Buckeye | 132 | 2,263(11 mo) | 1,711 |
| 7 | Goodyear | 106 | 2,161 | 978 |
| 8 | Mesa | 519 | 1,963 | 1,610 |
| 9 | Queen Creek | 76 | 1,577 | 772 |
| 10 | Scottsdale | 478 | 1,480(11 mo) | 803 |
| 11 | Unincorporated Yavapai Countycounty-wide totals | 105 | 1,299 | 834 |
| 12 | Peoria | 35 | 1,292 | 844 |
| 13 | Unincorporated Yuma Countycounty-wide totals | 63 | 1,192 | 777 |
| 14 | Apache Junction | no data reported | 1,045(8 mo) | 950 |
| 15 | Marana | 48 | 998 | 726 |
| 16 | Unincorporated Mohave Countycounty-wide totals | 71 | 974 | 525 |
| 17 | City of Maricopa | 78 | 895 | 688 |
| 18 | Yuma | 30 | 761 | 436 |
| 19 | Avondale | 53 | 623 | 535 |
| 20 | Oro Valley | 3 | 578 | 216 |
| 21 | Gilbert | 21 | 508 | 459 |
| 22 | Sahuarita | 40 | 467(11 mo) | 391 |
| 23 | Glendale | 14 | 433 | 309 |
| 24 | Unincorporated Navajo Countycounty-wide totals | 29 | 398 | 275 |
| 25 | Unincorporated Cochise Countycounty-wide totals | 29 | 388 | 256 |
| 26 | Unincorporated Coconino Countycounty-wide totals | 21 | 377 | 255 |
| 27 | Unincorporated Santa Cruz Countycounty-wide totals | 37 | 368 | 248 |
| 28 | Bullhead City | 27 | 367 | 238 |
| 29 | Prescott | 34 | 339 | 231 |
| 30 | San Luis | 23 | 309 | 226 |
| 31 | Florence | 28 | 305(11 mo) | 286 |
| 32 | Flagstaff | 12 | 263 | 173 |
| 33 | Prescott Valley | 17 | 231 | 162 |
| 34 | Casa Grande | no data reported | 213(5 mo) | 324 |
| 35 | Unincorporated Graham Countycounty-wide totals | 22 | 200 | 118 |
| 36 | Kingman | 22 | 164(11 mo) | 129 |
| 37 | Lake Havasu City | 14 | 147 | 98 |
| 38 | Cottonwood | 14 | 142 | 109 |
| 39 | Chandler | 7 | 138(11 mo) | 96 |
| 40 | Unincorporated Gila Countycounty-wide totals | 11 | 122 | 84 |
| 41 | Unincorporated Apache Countycounty-wide totals | 10 | 116 | 95 |
| 42 | Coolidge | 22 | 107(5 mo) | 202 |
| 43 | Show Low | 8 | 99 | 69 |
| 44 | Eloy | no data reported | 78(6 mo) | 116 |
| 45 | Unincorporated La Paz Countycounty-wide totals | 7 | 76 | 53 |
| 46 | Fountain Hills | 3 | 73 | 53 |
| 47 | Paradise Valley | 3 | 67 | 41 |
| 48 | Town of Payson | 5 | 53 | 34 |
| 49 | Safford | 1 | 39(11 mo) | 9 |
| 50 | Pima | 5 | 38 | 23 |
| 51 | Snowflake | no data reported | 38(5 mo) | 53 |
| 52 | Sierra Vista | 2 | 37 | 29 |
| 53 | Dewey-Humboldt | 0 | 29 | 15 |
| 54 | Thatcher | 4 | 29 | 18 |
| 55 | Benson | no data reported | 26(4 mo) | no data reported |
| 56 | Cave Creek | 1 | 22 | 14 |
| 57 | Eagar | 2 | 19 | 14 |
| 58 | Camp Verde | 0 | 17(10 mo) | 11 |
| 59 | Pinetop-Lakeside | 0 | 16(11 mo) | 12 |
| 60 | Douglas | 1 | 15 | 9 |
| 61 | Unincorporated Greenlee Countycounty-wide totals | 1 | 15 | 9 |
| 62 | Carefree | 1 | 14(10 mo) | 14 |
| 63 | Williams | 0 | 9 | 8 |
| 64 | Winslow | no data reported | 9(7 mo) | 12 |
| 65 | Page | 2 | 8(5 mo) | 10 |
| 66 | Sedona | no data reported | 8(3 mo) | 20 |
| 67 | Chino Valley | no data reported | 7(2 mo) | 35 |
| 68 | Wickenburg | no data reported | 7(2 mo) | no data reported |
| 69 | El Mirage | 0 | 6 | 4 |
| 70 | Tolleson | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| 71 | Wellton | 0 | 4(5 mo) | 6 |
| 72 | Nogales | no data reported | 3(5 mo) | 4 |
| 73 | Clarkdale | no data reported | 2(5 mo) | 9 |
| 74 | Parker | no data reported | 2(7 mo) | 1 |
| 75 | Youngtown | no data reported | 2(6 mo) | 4 |
| 76 | Somerton | no data reported | 1(5 mo) | 30 |
| 77 | Litchfield Park | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 78 | South Tucson | no data reported | 0(1 mo) | 2 |
| — | Bisbee | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Clifton | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Colorado City | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Duncan | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Fredonia | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Gila Bend | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | City of Globe | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Guadalupe | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Holbrook | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Huachuca City | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Jerome | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Quartzsite | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Springerville | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | City of St. Johns | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Taylor | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Tempe | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Tombstone | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Tucson | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Tusayan | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Willcox | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Town of Winkelman | 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.
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