United States Housing Starts

Last Release

Aug 31, 2025

Actual

1,307

Units In

Thousand units

1,429

Frequency

Monthly

Next Release

Feb 18, 2026

Time to Release

1 Months 7 Days 1 Hours

Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
2,494 Jan 1972	478 Apr 2009	1,431.62 Thousand units	1959-2025	U.S. Census Bureau

Housing Starts refer to the number of new residential construction projects that have begun during any particular month. Estimates of housing starts include units in structures being totally rebuilt on an existing foundation.

Latest Updates

Housing starts in the United States fell by 4.6% from the previous month to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 1.246 million units, the lowest since the Covid pandemic triggered a plunge in starts in the second quarter of 2020. The decline was marked for housing with five or more units (-25.9% to 347,000), offsetting the increase for single-unit houses (5.4% to 874,000). Among different regions, starts fell sharply in the West (-21.9% to 243,000) and slightly in the Northeast (-0.6% to 154,000), offsetting increases in the South (1.2% to 650,000) and the Midwest (0.5% to 199,000).