Nevada building permits issued
Monthly permits for new privately-owned residential construction in the Nevada 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)
- 450 units
- Year to date
- 6,796 units
- Coverage
- 31 jurisdictions
$169.6M valuation latest month · $1,922.8M valuation year to date · 18 of 31 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 Clark Countycounty-wide totals | 745 | 11,143 | 6,033 |
| 2 | Las Vegas | 81 | 2,967 | 1,939 |
| 3 | Unincorporated Washoe Countycounty-wide totals | 109 | 2,817 | 2,109 |
| 4 | Henderson | 103 | 2,057 | 1,484 |
| 5 | North Las Vegas | 109 | 1,789 | 621 |
| 6 | Reno | 42 | 1,265 | 878 |
| 7 | Sparks | 25 | 1,065 | 902 |
| 8 | Lyon Countycounty-wide totals | 19 | 360 | 179 |
| 9 | Mesquite | 13 | 334 | 196 |
| 10 | Carson City | no data reported | 328(9 mo) | 305 |
| 11 | Douglas Countycounty-wide totals | 44 | 275 | 156 |
| 12 | Fernley | 11 | 235(11 mo) | 104 |
| 13 | Unincorporated Elko Countycounty-wide totals | 12 | 148 | 109 |
| 14 | Elko | 9 | 110 | 79 |
| 15 | Unincorporated Churchill Countycounty-wide totals | 1 | 54 | 40 |
| 16 | Unincorporated Humboldt Countycounty-wide totals | 2 | 44 | 32 |
| 17 | Winnemucca | 2 | 38(11 mo) | 32 |
| 18 | Fallon | 0 | 34 | 29 |
| 19 | Unincorporated Lincoln Countycounty-wide totals | 2 | 34 | 8 |
| 20 | Boulder City | 7 | 16(6 mo) | 41 |
| 21 | Storey County (includes Virginia City)county-wide totals | 0 | 13 | 10 |
| 22 | Yerington | 1 | 8(6 mo) | 9 |
| 23 | Lander County (including Battle Mountain)county-wide totals | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| 24 | Pershing County (includes Lovelock)county-wide totals | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 25 | Unincorporated White Pine Countycounty-wide totals | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 26 | Unincorporated Mineral Countycounty-wide totals | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| — | Carlin | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Ely | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Nye County (Unincorporated, incl. Pahrump)county-wide totals | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Wells | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | West Wendover | 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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