New Privately Owned Residential Housing Units Authorized To Be Built
Annual 2007
New Jersey Counties
Single- Two- 3-or 4- 5-or-More
Total Total Family Family Family Family
County Value Units Units Units Units Units
Atlantic 166,014,212 1,136 1,025 36 12 63
Bergen 553,051,634 2,952 981 204 35 1,732
Burlington 145,229,295 1,040 876 8 3 153
Camden 113,276,836 1,191 652 14 78 447
Cape May 227,023,757 1,081 625 148 41 267
Cumberland 78,561,446 683 572 10 17 84
Essex 221,065,904 1,854 460 434 461 499
Gloucester 155,118,956 920 882 20 4 14
Hudson 302,280,333 3,081 161 344 126 2,450
Hunterdon 58,997,086 316 211 42 0 63
Mercer 97,985,114 700 466 14 0 220
Middlesex 198,388,930 1,597 878 20 81 618
Monmouth 340,904,606 2,054 1,130 18 146 760
Morris 202,103,977 1,052 688 14 88 262
Ocean 328,378,145 2,160 1,544 8 166 442
Passaic 82,819,949 760 265 36 7 452
Salem 18,845,706 148 143 0 0 5
Somerset 147,984,324 924 593 12 19 300
Sussex 66,895,887 359 323 2 0 34
Union 128,954,996 1,123 350 308 27 438
Warren 40,777,729 258 241 0 0 17
New Jersey 3,674,658,822 25,389 13,066 1,692 1,311 9,320
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, July 2008