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 14 out of our 99 profiled cities and towns showing a gain in the last 9 years. Lynchburg, VA ranks as the #1 city in permits with a 64% increase since 2000.

SINGLE FAMILY HOME
BUILDING PERMITS
2000 - 2008
	%										If not
	Change										City/Town,	GPTR
City/Town	'00-'08	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001	2000	then	Rank
Great Falls, MT	334.6%	113	210	188	185	148	39	58	113	26		15
Casper, WY	261.1%	260	274	292	293	191	139	110	75	72		14
Valdosta, GA	163.4%	216	365	414	256	177	291	244	103	82		13
Las Cruces, NM	104.2%	582	980	1,526	1,616	838	796	530	327	285		6
San Luis Obispo, CA	102.9%	69	48	38	27	59	154	180	105	34		5
Greenville, SC	83.1%	130	234	273	257	288	176	36	23	71		3
Lynchburg, VA	63.8%	249	396	434	469	210	393	251	202	152		1
Bigfork, MT	47.7%	189	278	422	511	374	333	294	221	128	Flathead cnty	2
Fargo, ND	33.6%	406	451	470	491	441	455	401	324	304		4
Boone, NC	16.7%	28	37	50	27	16	13	16	19	24		7
Fayetteville, AR	10.9%	346	560	507	664	478	623	250	280	312		8
Columbia, SC	4.3%	434	700	667	597	523	372	398	443	416		9
Clarksville, TN	1.1%	635	1,038	1,437	1,374	1,550	987	806	692	628		10
Coos Bay, OR	0.0%	6	4	21	44	20	18	17	10	6		11
Provincetown, MA	0.0%	14	18	22	25	25	12	12	11	14		11

GPTR Rank = Moderate growth is better (moderate defined as median of a positive "% Change")

BUILDING PERMITS

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