Idaho building permits issued
Monthly permits for new privately-owned residential construction in the Idaho 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)
- 1,273 units
- Year to date
- 9,870 units
- Coverage
- 79 jurisdictions
$296.2M valuation latest month · $2,419.3M valuation year to date · 32 of 79 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 Ada Countycounty-wide totals | 673 | 5,791 | 4,310 |
| 2 | Unincorporated Canyon Countycounty-wide totals | 329 | 3,651 | 2,483 |
| 3 | Kootenai Countycounty-wide totals | 180 | 2,030 | 1,479 |
| 4 | Meridian | 352 | 1,736 | 1,337 |
| 5 | Caldwell | 155 | 1,475 | 1,089 |
| 6 | Kuna | 92 | 1,368 | 967 |
| 7 | Unincorporated Bonneville Countycounty-wide totals | 75 | 1,236 | 892 |
| 8 | Post Falls | 77 | 911 | 761 |
| 9 | Star | 79 | 873 | 672 |
| 10 | Idaho Falls | 24 | 786 | 588 |
| 11 | Unincorporated Madison Countycounty-wide totals | 49 | 769 | 394 |
| 12 | Boise | 56 | 690(11 mo) | 478 |
| 13 | Eagle | 79 | 662(9 mo) | 652 |
| 14 | Unincorporated Bannock Countycounty-wide totals | 199 | 650 | 554 |
| 15 | Nampa | no data reported | 624(6 mo) | 801 |
| 16 | Rexburg | 35 | 593 | 320 |
| 17 | Unincorporated Twin Falls Countycounty-wide totals | 36 | 499 | 329 |
| 18 | Pocatello | 181 | 447 | 379 |
| 19 | Middleton | 33 | 398 | 280 |
| 20 | Twin Falls | 21 | 311 | 214 |
| 21 | Unincorporated Jefferson Countycounty-wide totals | 37 | 309 | 232 |
| 22 | Unincorporated Valley Countycounty-wide totals | 36 | 285 | 205 |
| 23 | Unincorporated Latah Countycounty-wide totals | 10 | 217 | 118 |
| 24 | Ammon | 25 | 201(11 mo) | 155 |
| 25 | Unincorporated Bingham Countycounty-wide totals | 12 | 180 | 115 |
| 26 | Unincorporated Elmore Countycounty-wide totals | 7 | 180 | 139 |
| 27 | Unincorporated Gem Countycounty-wide totals | 18 | 173 | 120 |
| 28 | Mountain Home | 5 | 157 | 123 |
| 29 | Unincorporated Nez Perce Countycounty-wide totals | 14 | 157 | 130 |
| 30 | Sandpoint | 1 | 145 | 21 |
| 31 | Rathdrum | no data reported | 142(8 mo) | 157 |
| 32 | Moscow | 2 | 132(10 mo) | 68 |
| 33 | Lewiston | 12 | 129 | 108 |
| 34 | Unincorporated Cassia Countycounty-wide totals | 12 | 120 | 84 |
| 35 | Jerome | 4 | 114 | 67 |
| 36 | Minidoka County (Building Authority for Unincorporated County and the Cities of Acequia, Minidoka, Paul, and Rupert)county-wide totals | 4 | 112 | 60 |
| 37 | Victor | no data reported | 108(9 mo) | 44 |
| 38 | Hayden | 4 | 101 | 61 |
| 39 | Garden City | 0 | 100 | 99 |
| 40 | Payette | 8 | 96(8 mo) | 96 |
| 41 | Rupert | 3 | 62 | 29 |
| 42 | Unincorporated Franklin Countycounty-wide totals | 4 | 59 | 41 |
| 43 | Emmett | 10 | 56(7 mo) | 62 |
| 44 | Shelley | no data reported | 56(10 mo) | 35 |
| 45 | Burley | 6 | 53 | 33 |
| 46 | Wilder | 3 | 47 | 29 |
| 47 | Kimberly | no data reported | 38(8 mo) | 41 |
| 48 | Fruitland | 1 | 34 | 18 |
| 49 | Blackfoot | 0 | 31 | 17 |
| 50 | Ketchum | 0 | 14 | 8 |
| 51 | Spirit Lake | 0 | 7 | 4 |
| 52 | Buhl | no data reported | 6(4 mo) | 9 |
| 53 | Idaho City | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| 54 | American Falls | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| 55 | Unincorporated Power Countycounty-wide totals | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| 56 | Heyburn | no data reported | 2(2 mo) | no data reported |
| — | Cascade | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Chubbuck | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Coeur d'Alene | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Donnelly | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Driggs | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Grangeville | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Greenleaf | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Hailey | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Harrison | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Kellogg | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Malad City | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | McCall | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Melba | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Notus | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Osburn | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Plummer | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Priest River | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Rigby | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Salmon | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Soda Springs | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | City of St. Maries | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Wallace | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Worley | 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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