2019 Annual Residential Building Permits by County
Single- Two- 3-or 4- 5-or-More
Total Total Family Family Family Family
County Value Units Units Units Units Units
Atlantic 147,760,556 957 364 8 0 585
Bergen 668,221,564 3,924 806 162 67 2,889
Burlington 196,178,752 2,606 589 2 16 1,999
Camden 101,859,907 1,430 425 4 24 977
Cape May 269,334,050 863 552 174 39 98
Cumberland 11,570,723 132 132 0 0 0
Essex 440,800,772 3,152 515 160 98 2,379
Gloucester 82,473,935 706 427 10 3 266
Hudson 636,667,978 7,707 2,070 92 217 5,328
Hunterdon 62,911,642 684 177 6 12 489
Mercer 52,639,959 538 181 2 53 302
Middlesex 331,076,076 3,007 749 32 275 1,951
Monmouth 346,293,545 1,566 888 14 12 652
Morris 207,114,604 1,527 787 8 25 707
Ocean 460,369,883 2,258 1,901 114 16 227
Passaic 58,943,093 1,017 108 34 22 853
Salem 10,274,294 68 68 0 0 0
Somerset 149,084,290 1,708 326 0 32 1,350
Sussex 27,067,177 172 120 48 4 0
Union 171,010,439 2,316 243 190 17 1,866
Warren 22,000,996 167 98 6 0 63
New Jersey 4,453,654,235 36,505 11,526 1,066 932 22,981
This table is prepared from annualized building permit data.Due to differences in cutoff dates, annualized data���
may differ from annual averages derived from aggregated monthly data.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Manufacturing and Construction Division.
Prepared by: New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, July 2020