State of the Cities Dataset (SOCDS) Building Permits
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Project Citation:
United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. State of the Cities Dataset (SOCDS) Building Permits. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-03-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E222283V1
Project Description
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State of the Cities Dataset (SOCDS) Building Permits
Summary:
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This database contains data on permits for residential construction issued by nearly 20,000 jurisdictions
collected in the Census Bureau's Building Permits Survey. You can create output tables at the State,
County, CBSA or permit-issuing jurisdiction level.
Monthly data are available from January 1997 through the most recent reporting month for about 9,000
jurisdictions that respond to the monthly survey. The remaining jurisdictions report annual data only.
Thus, annual figures will not necessarily match the monthly totals.
Final monthly data for any given calendar year is published in May of the following year. For that same
calendar year, any data that is published prior to the final publication date is labeled as Preliminary
in this application. Preliminary data issued in the current year is subject to subsequent monthly revision
throughout it's given calendar year. Both preliminary and final monthly data may also include imputed
values, created by the Census Bureau when actual jurisdictional permit activity is unavailable. Since County,
State, and CBSA data are derived from aggregations of jurisdictional data, their totals may reflect a mix
of both reported and imputed values, and thus are not identified as imputed values in their respective output
tables.
Annual data are available from 1980 through the most recent reporting year, and may also contain imputed values.
Data files include HUD's original Access 2000 databases as well as .csv extracts of the internal tables of the databases.
Original Distribution URL:
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https://socds.huduser.gov/permits/help
Scope of Project
Geographic Coverage:
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United States of America
Time Period(s):
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1/1/1980 – 12/31/2024 (1980-2024)
Data Type(s):
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survey data
Methodology
Geographic Unit:
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permit-issuing jurisdiction
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