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 2026-05
State summary
State building-activity summary
- Latest month (2026-05)
- 205 units
- Year to date
- 1,774 units
- Coverage
- 19 jurisdictions
$51.6M valuation latest month · $384.2M valuation year to date · 7 of 19 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.
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 | 96 | 1,813 | 817 |
| 2 | Albuquerque | no data reported | 1,308(8 mo) | 735 |
| 3 | Village of Corralescounty-wide totals | 80 | 835 | 390 |
| 4 | Rio Rancho | 78 | 814 | 378 |
| 5 | Unincorporated Doña Ana Countycounty-wide totals | 69 | 763 | 326 |
| 6 | Santa Fe | 41 | 437(8 mo) | 122 |
| 7 | Carlsbad | 16 | 316 | 163 |
| 8 | Las Cruces | 55 | 162(3 mo) | 253 |
| 9 | Unincorporated San Juan Countycounty-wide totals | 8 | 81 | 33 |
| 10 | Clovis | 8 | 71 | 39 |
| 11 | Farmington | 5 | 40 | 17 |
| 12 | Los Alamos Countycounty-wide totals | 2 | 11 | 9 |
| 13 | Deming | no data reported | 0(2 mo) | 2 |
| — | Alamogordo | 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 | 56 |
| — | 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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