New Privately Owned Residential Housing Units Authorized To Be Built
Annual 1996
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 74,183,543 1,041 917 16 55 53
Bergen County 157,120,543 1,240 894 176 23 147
Burlington County 174,420,913 2,293 1,968 0 4 321
Camden County 84,781,840 1,222 1,186 6 0 30
Cape May County 58,158,710 671 388 232 37 14
Cumberland County 21,058,146 316 306 10 0 0
Essex County 37,415,657 539 283 162 20 74
Gloucester County 74,143,302 1,057 1,018 0 4 35
Hudson County 17,184,603 360 131 180 34 15
Hunterdon County 87,013,954 683 683 0 0 0
Mercer County 83,919,669 802 788 4 0 10
Middlesex County 186,894,622 2,992 2,088 12 10 882
Monmouth County 245,701,269 2,284 2,270 0 0 14
Morris County 196,116,862 1,742 1,704 8 11 19
Ocean County 232,111,208 2,983 2,794 2 3 184
Passaic County 30,042,220 366 286 8 6 66
Salem County 9,952,785 92 92 0 0 0
Somerset County 230,173,001 2,264 1,909 6 4 345
Sussex County 62,675,259 515 515 0 0 0
Union County 23,687,116 267 189 58 0 20
Warren County 47,371,390 444 444 0 0 0
TOTALS 2,134,126,612 24,173 20,853 880 211 2,229
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. Census Bureau
Prepared by:  New Jersey Department of Labor, May 1997