2017 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 154,399,436 1,090 304 2 0 784
Bergen 489,328,619 3,001 833 176 34 1,958
Burlington 135,557,711 1,133 751 30 4 348
Camden 104,354,889 1,400 186 10 4 1,200
Cape May 236,489,863 809 542 186 3 78
Cumberland 7,489,514 88 88 0 0 0
Essex 327,512,406 2,317 353 68 66 1,830
Gloucester 91,378,490 736 387 6 0 343  
Hudson 700,292,127 5,073 243 148 89 4,593
Hunterdon 41,431,259 287 146 6 3 132
Mercer 84,976,521 605 152 2 174 277
Middlesex 326,118,980 2,730 799 12 11 1,908
Monmouth 311,249,807 1,474 888 2 10 574
Morris 237,322,106 1,648 658 4 119 867
Ocean 539,206,804 3,427 2,791 44 137 455
Passaic 66,886,801 568 164 18 8 378
Salem 6,779,856 40 40 0 0 0
Somerset 114,222,049 730 344 2 0 384
Sussex 17,530,164 106 74 0 4 28  
Union 135,399,482 1,085 343 90 9 643
Warren 13,754,425 154 62 0 0 92
New Jersey 4,141,681,309 28,501 10,148 806 675 16,872
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 2018