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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") | ||||||||||||
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