New Privately Owned Residential Housing Units Authorized To Be Built
Annual 1980
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 County 56,611,156 1,324 692 74 6 552
Bergen County 87,595,393 1,276 817 190 7 262
Burlington County 36,566,122 920 868 6 0 46
Camden County 43,958,847 1,396 1,224 132 0 40
Cape May County 78,939,727 1,588 635 476 33 444
Cumberland County 8,045,066 180 170 10 0 0
Essex County 44,516,010 1,226 173 30 4 1,019
Gloucester County 36,218,664 1,007 813 92 0 102
Hudson County 35,652,978 1,340 101 190 22 1,027
Hunterdon County 21,736,683 351 327 0 0 24
Mercer County 30,879,647 504 487 0 0 17
Middlesex County 90,607,430 2,219 1,364 98 7 750
Monmouth County 103,891,049 2,335 1,636 8 52 639
Morris County 96,319,965 1,681 1,374 4 19 284
Ocean County 111,770,490 2,984 2,523 156 105 200
Passaic County 25,513,700 508 342 24 8 134
Salem County 6,469,030 166 142 24 0 0
Somerset County 25,641,975 447 387 24 4 32
Sussex County 20,736,068 369 354 0 9 6
Union County 16,558,604 320 222 60 20 18
Warren County 7,125,147 129 129 0 0 0
TOTALS 985,353,751 22,270 14,780 1,598 296 5,596
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:  US Census Bureau
Prepared by:  New Jersey Department of Labor, 7/97