Colorado building permits issued
Monthly permits for new privately-owned residential construction in the Colorado 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)
1,549
housing units authorized · $424.3M valuation
Year to date
7,504
housing units authorized · $2,032.1M valuation
Coverage
10
jurisdictions tracked · 10 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 | Denver | 262 | 5,414(10 mo) | 2,949 |
| 2 | Colorado Springscounty-wide totals | 351 | 5,412 | 1,923 |
| 3 | Aurora | 106 | 1,724 | 791 |
| 4 | Fort Collins | 465 | 1,458 | 822 |
| 5 | Longmont | 264 | 753(7 mo) | 495 |
| 6 | Thornton | 43 | 316 | 136 |
| 7 | Westminster | 19 | 251(11 mo) | 147 |
| 8 | Arvada | 36 | 237(11 mo) | 190 |
| 9 | Boulder | 3 | 39(8 mo) | 43 |
| 10 | Lakewood | 0 | 30 | 8 |
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.