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Business Environment Profiles - United States

Housing starts

Published: 10 June 2025

Key Metrics

Housing starts

Total (2025)

1361 Thousands

Annualized Growth 2020-25

-0.5 %

Definition of Housing starts

This driver measures the number of new, privately owned housing units started in a given year. This includes both single-unit and multiunit developments. The data is sourced from the US Census Bureau and is the sum of unadjusted monthly data.

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