BUILDING PERMITS

The Building Permits table with data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows the annual number of single-family home building permits and the percentage growth since 2000.

Moderate housing growth for that new retirement destination is okay. Overbuilding or stagnation, of course, is not okay. Given the current mess in the mortgage and home building industries, building permits are down considerably with only 16 out of our 99 profiled cities and towns showing a gain in the last 10 years. Valdosta, GA ranks as the #1 city in permits with a 44% increase since 2000.

SINGLE FAMILY HOME
BUILDING PERMITS
2000 - 2009
	%
	Change											GPTR
City/Town	'00-'09	2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001	2000	Rank
Winter Haven, FL	183.3%	102	180	492	743	973	400	148	84	80	36	15
Coos Bay, OR	133.3%	14	6	4	21	44	20	18	17	10	6	14
Las Cruces, NM	121.1%	630	582	980	1,526	1,616	838	796	530	327	285	13
Lake Placid, NY	100.0%	8	3	21	1	55	62	7	59	55	4	6
Wenatchee, WA	86.7%	84	44	91	134	124	98	85	98	46	45	5
Casper, WY	47.2%	106	260	274	292	293	191	139	110	75	72	3
Valdosta, GA	43.9%	118	216	365	414	256	177	291	244	103	82	1
Provincetown, MA	42.9%	20	14	18	22	25	25	12	12	11	14	2
Clarksville, TN	36.8%	859	635	1,038	1,437	1,374	1,550	987	806	692	628	4
Olympia, WA	34.7%	159	55	97	229	260	145	132	143	117	118	7
Middleton, WI	19.2%	93	26	25	46	44	72	54	69	76	78	8
Fargo, ND	16.1%	353	406	451	470	491	441	455	401	324	304	9
Coeur d'Alene, ID	10.7%	259	212	165	231	663	621	354	335	307	234	10
Iowa City, IA	5.7%	168	80	175	179	292	247	318	227	191	159	11
Hanover, PA	2.3%	45	17	39	10	17	44	na	na	na	na	11
GPTR Rank = Moderate growth is better (moderate defined as median of a positive "% Change")

BUILDING PERMITS

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