2014 Annual Residential Building Permits by County
Single- Two- 3-or 4- 5-or-More
Total Total Family Family Family Family
County Value Units Units Units Units Units
Atlantic 125,565,368 722 392 38 10 282
Bergen 514,763,796 3,408 1,002 158 22 2,226
Burlington 116,104,720 1,000 560 6 12 422
Camden 97,815,977 1,506 294 36 54 1,122
Cape May 206,175,183 638 447 164 17 10
Cumberland 24,627,336 212 182 0 0 30
Essex 243,183,939 2,617 308 52 67 2,190
Gloucester 65,371,977 491 487 4 0 0  
Hudson 794,088,256 4,621 272 100 87 4,162
Hunterdon 49,384,206 348 171 6 0 171
Mercer 60,726,806 368 239 8 0 121
Middlesex 298,858,254 1,901 783 4 23 1,091
Monmouth 248,346,541 1,484 1,014 12 23 435
Morris 227,384,549 1,591 658 2 0 931
Ocean 557,234,543 2,937 2,660 96 51 130
Passaic 61,360,445 518 172 20 20 306
Salem 7,049,739 51 51 0 0 0
Somerset 143,108,039 1,310 595 6 3 706
Sussex 37,108,373 222 158 0 0 64  
Union 162,653,358 1,966 406 50 13 1,497
Warren 29,047,918 244 168 0 0 76
New Jersey 4,069,959,323 28,155 11,019 762 402 15,972
This table is prepared from annualized building permit data.  Due to differences in cutoff dates, annualized data   
 may differ from annual averages derived from aggregated monthly data.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Manufacturing and Construction Division.
Prepared by: New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, June 2015