New Privately Owned Residential Housing Units Authorized To Be Built
Annual 1998
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 98,902,292 1,220 1,148 2 4 66
Bergen County 215,765,972 1,931 823 178 7 923
Burlington Count 223,971,176 2,715 2,284 10 0 421
Camden County 65,660,540 874 841 0 0 33
Cape May County 93,376,724 1,015 619 386 0 10
Cumberland Count 31,018,899 416 314 0 3 99
Essex County 80,879,318 844 476 230 96 42
Gloucester Count 97,009,684 1,366 1,238 0 12 116
Hudson County 105,149,673 1,788 431 188 21 1,148
Hunterdon County 113,766,863 875 764 0 12 99
Mercer County 132,372,802 1,393 1,200 0 0 193
Middlesex County 248,190,684 2,837 2,608 14 0 215
Monmouth County 350,432,186 3,277 3,159 0 3 115
Morris County 237,343,263 1,881 1,687 0 12 182
Ocean County 326,389,266 3,934 3,756 6 0 172
Passaic County 56,162,555 509 485 8 8 8
Salem County 14,264,548 138 138 0 0 0
Somerset County 259,041,073 2,508 1,910 8 37 553
Sussex County 76,495,213 552 552 0 0 0
Union County 30,041,437 488 265 140 6 77
Warren County 79,781,833 784 761 2 0 21
New Jersey Total 2,936,016,001 31,345 25,459 1,172 221 4,493
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, 5/99