Monthly
Units
2004 - 2025
Jan 1, 2004 to Dec 1, 2025
FRED
2 months ago
StaleMar 24, 2026
This series represents the total number of building permits for all structure types. Structure types include 1-unit, 2-unit, 3-unit, 4-unit, and 5-unit or more. The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis seasonally adjusts this series by using the 'statsmodels' library from Python with default parameter settings. The package uses the U.S. Bureau of the Census X-13ARIMA-SEATS Seasonal Adjustment Program. More information on the 'statsmodels' X-13ARIMA-SEATS package can be found here (https://www.statsmodels.org/dev/generated/statsmodels.tsa.x13.x13_arima_analysis.html). More information on X-13ARIMA-SEATS can be found here (https://www.census.gov/data/software/x13as.html). Many series include both seasonally adjusted (SA) and not seasonally adjusted (NSA) data. Occasionally, updates to the data will not include sufficient seasonal factors to trigger a seasonal adjustment. In these cases, the NSA series will be updated normally; but the SA series will also be updated with the NSA data. The
As of December 1, 2025 • M data • Source: FRED
This dataset contains 264 monthly observations, over 22 years, updated monthly from FRED. View Methodology
Data Points
264
Coverage
22 years
Updates
monthly
This dataset's metadata was updated on 4/9/2026. The current data may be outdated.