New Privately Owned Residential Housing Units Authorized To Be Built
Annual 1997
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	75,156,207	1,003	994	0	4	5
Bergen County	216,458,935	1,713	921	126	21	645
Burlington Count	179,200,565	2,300	2,012	0	16	272
Camden County	89,732,671	1,328	1,092	6	0	230
Cape May County	77,111,641	912	491	348	0	73
Cumberland Count	26,958,695	450	362	6	36	46
Essex County	74,016,996	1,171	529	194	149	299
Gloucester Count	85,629,319	1,175	1,151	8	0	16
Hudson County	42,226,124	702	136	110	12	444
Hunterdon County	98,341,122	781	720	0	44	17
Mercer County	107,157,845	1,063	1,040	2	0	21
Middlesex County	221,923,162	3,037	2,392	14	26	605
Monmouth County	319,913,513	3,234	3,047	6	0	181
Morris County	201,596,368	1,622	1,449	8	0	165
Ocean County	285,621,723	3,433	3,391	6	4	32
Passaic County	43,154,348	452	386	12	9	45
Salem County	12,317,800	143	99	0	0	44
Somerset County	245,868,062	2,146	2,030	0	0	116
Sussex County	60,143,861	473	473	0	0	0
Union County	20,554,084	429	308	68	3	50
Warren County	50,368,404	451	449	2	0	0
TOTALS	2,533,451,445	28,018	23,472	916	324	3,306
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 1998