New Mexico building permits issued
Monthly permits for new privately-owned residential construction in the New Mexico 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)
- 262 units
- Year to date
- 3,025 units
- Coverage
- 26 jurisdictions
$32.1M valuation latest month · $674.5M valuation year to date · 7 of 26 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 Bernalillo Countycounty-wide totals | 188 | 1,720 | 1,418 |
| 2 | Albuquerque | 178 | 1,195(8 mo) | 1,302 |
| 3 | Village of Corralescounty-wide totals | 54 | 810 | 620 |
| 4 | Rio Rancho | 54 | 792 | 607 |
| 5 | Unincorporated Doña Ana Countycounty-wide totals | 54 | 777 | 529 |
| 6 | Santa Fe | no data reported | 388(6 mo) | 241 |
| 7 | Carlsbad | 7 | 307 | 193 |
| 8 | Las Cruces | no data reported | 278(5 mo) | 415 |
| 9 | Clovis | 18 | 85 | 71 |
| 10 | Unincorporated San Juan Countycounty-wide totals | 7 | 84 | 56 |
| 11 | Artesia | 1 | 52 | 48 |
| 12 | Farmington | 3 | 47 | 33 |
| 13 | Los Alamos Countycounty-wide totals | 1 | 12 | 9 |
| 14 | Deming | no data reported | 0(2 mo) | 2 |
| — | Alamogordo | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Aztec | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Bernalillo | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Bloomfield | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Edgewood | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Española | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Gallup | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Hobbs | no data reported | no data reported | 104 |
| — | Village of Los Ranchos de Albuquerque | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Lovington | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Roswell | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Sunland Park | 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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