Table Data - New Private Housing Units Authorized by Building Permits: 1-Unit Structures for Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (MSA)

Title New Private Housing Units Authorized by Building Permits: 1-Unit Structures for Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (MSA)
Series ID BOST625BP1FHSA
Source U.S. Census Bureau
Release Housing Units Authorized By Building Permits (Not a Press Release)
Seasonal Adjustment Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency Monthly
Units Units
Date Range 1988-01-01 to 2025-10-01
Last Updated 2026-01-20 2:11 PM CST
Notes This series represents the total number of building permits for 1-unit structure types. The 1-unit structure type is a single-family home or house. A single-family home or house types include fully detached, semidetached (semidetached, side-by-side), row houses, and townhouses. For attached units, each must be separated from the adjacent unit by a ground-to-roof wall in order to be classified as a single-family structure. These units also must not share heating/air-conditioning systems or utilities. Units built on top of one another and those built side-by-side that do not have a ground-to-roof wall and/or have common facilities (i.e., attic, basement, heating plant, plumbing, etc.) are not included under single-family structures.

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. More information on X-13ARIMA-SEATS can be found here.

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 NSA series can be located here here.

Some seasonally adjusted series may exhibit negative values because they are created from a seasonal adjustment process regardless of the actual meaning or interpretation of the given indicator.
DATE VALUE
1988-01-01 606.869518997938
1988-02-01 634.014345055197
1988-03-01 904.665973773264
1988-04-01 572.832265940840
1988-05-01 546.805924256542
1988-06-01 502.161979512996
1988-07-01 538.308374245757
1988-08-01 492.938408505512
1988-09-01 503.525610289449
1988-10-01 469.185819447914
1988-11-01 457.845652367319
1988-12-01 525.630131240977
1989-01-01 478.531825264618
1989-02-01 454.236791446823
1989-03-01 441.945235592937
1989-04-01 414.360845095081
1989-05-01 383.897017692697
1989-06-01 399.728453502999
1989-07-01 355.706947411763
1989-08-01 375.656891698926
1989-09-01 404.208685469476
1989-10-01 385.262473734468
1989-11-01 405.865773842368
1989-12-01 361.802481608771
1990-01-01 416.050075518190
1990-02-01 480.551821308915
1990-03-01 342.507336274609
1990-04-01 292.995915773018
1990-05-01 321.784847863821
1990-06-01 315.901893872112
1990-07-01 289.829712954010
1990-08-01 292.815374319972
1990-09-01 249.732640633192
1990-10-01 262.616568940121
1990-11-01 333.350776379437
1990-12-01 272.571996338336
1991-01-01 242.011972405573
1991-02-01 259.032410975727
1991-03-01 299.919114840357
1991-04-01 355.787619031637
1991-05-01 403.127149200751
1991-06-01 366.455674804969
1991-07-01 375.984330816578
1991-08-01 398.492160402960
1991-09-01 377.725168370844
1991-10-01 395.585948081814
1991-11-01 366.233128990347
1991-12-01 343.682725664896
1992-01-01 371.514433334496
1992-02-01 431.547083766623
1992-03-01 487.593443790997
1992-04-01 458.722348216688
1992-05-01 428.538362263023
1992-06-01 448.003300448008
1992-07-01 538.095104911783
1992-08-01 428.058234279504
1992-09-01 495.252620316137
1992-10-01 516.365818058268
1992-11-01 486.344981758117
1992-12-01 584.600162424164
1993-01-01 1057.661811413550
1993-02-01 1027.602303838370
1993-03-01 847.448820474570
1993-04-01 949.971088350200
1993-05-01 987.675940262854
1993-06-01 1030.528701535100
1993-07-01 1070.877546303150
1993-08-01 1113.123922984140
1993-09-01 1158.652821375370
1993-10-01 1176.069813111120
1993-11-01 1220.313989062610
1993-12-01 1123.491362428540
1994-01-01 621.385078836593
1994-02-01 547.896442206148
1994-03-01 575.714586325277
1994-04-01 683.034518027623
1994-05-01 627.440461907712
1994-06-01 647.801945675417
1994-07-01 678.915764437983
1994-08-01 647.710478012952
1994-09-01 664.679656544790
1994-10-01 615.990899787144
1994-11-01 733.933350976012
1994-12-01 739.253537790282
1995-01-01 545.805621938684
1995-02-01 474.908956479535
1995-03-01 581.926979358055
1995-04-01 498.054036144468
1995-05-01 564.777639717646
1995-06-01 560.912592272237
1995-07-01 491.119317679206
1995-08-01 571.448731430110
1995-09-01 553.350782108524
1995-10-01 493.538053866731
1995-11-01 632.196961254684
1995-12-01 509.044535566868
1996-01-01 470.565721636726
1996-02-01 491.686013433195
1996-03-01 567.662555133616
1996-04-01 597.547770746024
1996-05-01 619.484737794165
1996-06-01 552.724953823187
1996-07-01 620.112616756063
1996-08-01 602.842520335976
1996-09-01 562.517250624169
1996-10-01 639.047873769278
1996-11-01 503.088088891553
1996-12-01 578.316564816025
1997-01-01 652.148101158845
1997-02-01 686.057566174734
1997-03-01 587.506593787114
1997-04-01 548.599582017443
1997-05-01 568.860836002126
1997-06-01 602.866391434666
1997-07-01 620.671071148314
1997-08-01 566.864904775119
1997-09-01 577.662874975144
1997-10-01 688.396590360742
1997-11-01 564.647082620999
1997-12-01 611.594091635699
1998-01-01 701.433930671305
1998-02-01 722.760084953445
1998-03-01 639.546788924236
1998-04-01 624.576399570946
1998-05-01 578.910048749461
1998-06-01 605.740979556220
1998-07-01 597.915086973171
1998-08-01 569.965087881696
1998-09-01 668.259594779763
1998-10-01 605.432627624636
1998-11-01 602.560631034349
1998-12-01 692.143690514766
1999-01-01 578.789850115897
1999-02-01 536.091773017233
1999-03-01 591.979794937621
1999-04-01 635.225265750519
1999-05-01 571.232052310344
1999-06-01 573.328083956591
1999-07-01 521.554699668635
1999-08-01 566.082192132347
1999-09-01 528.315171097605
1999-10-01 478.340331740077
1999-11-01 540.866212272702
1999-12-01 581.383136093125
2000-01-01 480.694477929641
2000-02-01 557.415478708701
2000-03-01 575.426955780006
2000-04-01 450.687884614451
2000-05-01 459.505029325410
2000-06-01 493.985416811545
2000-07-01 473.985372725182
2000-08-01 469.851208258909
2000-09-01 471.474934034468
2000-10-01 456.237153774582
2000-11-01 514.442469737975
2000-12-01 489.829885535287
2001-01-01 472.749141633392
2001-02-01 481.445571975842
2001-03-01 388.404912709100
2001-04-01 433.119519179380
2001-05-01 474.725275928001
2001-06-01 441.992899402164
2001-07-01 466.052506963477
2001-08-01 464.068227606329
2001-09-01 410.079812969619
2001-10-01 430.817778524437
2001-11-01 420.047982270563
2001-12-01 415.350192133379
2002-01-01 533.134085579895
2002-02-01 427.325719991533
2002-03-01 442.968240274575
2002-04-01 451.792072814661
2002-05-01 469.490795130069
2002-06-01 399.866585956919
2002-07-01 439.360393782441
2002-08-01 456.122651538246
2002-09-01 440.328243836142
2002-10-01 514.574559660674
2002-11-01 438.505992299597
2002-12-01 395.988715768734
2003-01-01 410.114322178471
2003-02-01 375.790499992585
2003-03-01 363.247634398136
2003-04-01 427.642178150117
2003-05-01 400.797681743941
2003-06-01 432.172272096476
2003-07-01 428.181166767573
2003-08-01 364.982391211888
2003-09-01 459.639653650656
2003-10-01 472.634584749171
2003-11-01 452.234041247628
2003-12-01 487.050300595911
2004-01-01 613.605487044457
2004-02-01 647.394404387628
2004-03-01 678.275183650656
2004-04-01 703.805624848124
2004-05-01 564.259981017720
2004-06-01 680.864318933478
2004-07-01 685.247206708919
2004-08-01 645.724738168957
2004-09-01 637.127503651926
2004-10-01 626.041116788913
2004-11-01 672.392569797931
2004-12-01 692.839757526277
2005-01-01 641.882813174084
2005-02-01 626.661182378106
2005-03-01 660.612447588299
2005-04-01 584.565460849650
2005-05-01 673.183759291992
2005-06-01 643.669772433732
2005-07-01 687.936423045679
2005-08-01 718.470343367720
2005-09-01 821.422543955811
2005-10-01 616.482903731387
2005-11-01 666.822931174490
2005-12-01 649.265026514400
2006-01-01 610.098013590489
2006-02-01 678.000810699736
2006-03-01 653.182298607741
2006-04-01 577.409328599997
2006-05-01 512.370451381112
2006-06-01 563.060654859110
2006-07-01 481.001100140143
2006-08-01 466.101203132751
2006-09-01 480.644413704635
2006-10-01 503.052708240678
2006-11-01 438.062005421256
2006-12-01 445.374969512261
2007-01-01 443.430000092226
2007-02-01 379.230587836323
2007-03-01 374.163522661392
2007-04-01 434.782258196548
2007-05-01 523.975816866338
2007-06-01 397.514950295788
2007-07-01 415.433785339678
2007-08-01 427.143999656614
2007-09-01 362.841379989236
2007-10-01 428.210146869123
2007-11-01 414.450778670368
2007-12-01 514.305606209440
2008-01-01 344.935657224082
2008-02-01 339.325335582401
2008-03-01 254.530444215562
2008-04-01 310.591039131256
2008-05-01 320.794857651003
2008-06-01 264.843714924472
2008-07-01 266.085744795610
2008-08-01 278.301659225291
2008-09-01 306.429936174315
2008-10-01 235.976069400177
2008-11-01 215.960560617397
2008-12-01 197.125799732162
2009-01-01 213.050659200170
2009-02-01 187.931885012929
2009-03-01 223.210310011586
2009-04-01 201.614888382589
2009-05-01 213.941488156280
2009-06-01 257.398843949521
2009-07-01 263.258622610157
2009-08-01 241.544140000089
2009-09-01 278.018692907958
2009-10-01 259.253972041482
2009-11-01 274.067694145318
2009-12-01 342.243352556835
2010-01-01 317.705142315823
2010-02-01 323.154582001217
2010-03-01 304.029095409540
2010-04-01 339.941165408147
2010-05-01 299.763191418440
2010-06-01 334.379599196439
2010-07-01 303.442526576796
2010-08-01 277.181468224587
2010-09-01 316.783337777137
2010-10-01 220.469047325292
2010-11-01 313.976249784354
2010-12-01 356.225090881043
2011-01-01 268.728477223630
2011-02-01 204.080205139717
2011-03-01 273.983990472766
2011-04-01 271.503117788321
2011-05-01 265.072198515513
2011-06-01 265.964499464610
2011-07-01 256.449216397876
2011-08-01 277.540616871066
2011-09-01 259.433602159177
2011-10-01 283.246961306984
2011-11-01 270.677059620320
2011-12-01 268.772529460033
2012-01-01 297.558364987850
2012-02-01 334.735237500671
2012-03-01 356.300924826533
2012-04-01 300.714573198116
2012-05-01 340.650659081629
2012-06-01 284.843257907358
2012-07-01 330.045377378245
2012-08-01 358.827110367697
2012-09-01 329.072140260819
2012-10-01 343.202659597329
2012-11-01 373.106909919120
2012-12-01 367.837009131181
2013-01-01 388.836355485096
2013-02-01 410.490441348644
2013-03-01 369.863479911844
2013-04-01 407.241306483871
2013-05-01 443.247314291357
2013-06-01 406.291762829912
2013-07-01 409.888310418689
2013-08-01 435.691745422898
2013-09-01 416.199890667985
2013-10-01 458.608536657143
2013-11-01 432.420721397850
2013-12-01 407.702537355700
2014-01-01 448.025009461575
2014-02-01 411.551284047200
2014-03-01 386.381997027876
2014-04-01 403.046096437319
2014-05-01 399.505558668700
2014-06-01 377.732150199357
2014-07-01 407.971011214432
2014-08-01 341.397693412959
2014-09-01 469.692490995101
2014-10-01 391.248358326774
2014-11-01 344.608106510837
2014-12-01 424.008594208694
2015-01-01 308.029120280101
2015-02-01 258.778488764361
2015-03-01 314.559848428901
2015-04-01 383.186543500772
2015-05-01 361.474688047181
2015-06-01 409.314204702060
2015-07-01 462.605882988067
2015-08-01 399.771887326602
2015-09-01 439.238096649415
2015-10-01 389.053901554625
2015-11-01 456.657072055608
2015-12-01 451.060925575288
2016-01-01 376.493373472928
2016-02-01 427.145188433266
2016-03-01 490.119939063539
2016-04-01 472.055247844577
2016-05-01 409.744061623331
2016-06-01 472.967586365540
2016-07-01 384.808142067159
2016-08-01 443.227827253658
2016-09-01 429.968916864879
2016-10-01 445.379145640185
2016-11-01 435.074753171975
2016-12-01 437.820010156774
2017-01-01 467.414237970565
2017-02-01 388.413680379782
2017-03-01 451.359538594406
2017-04-01 372.312610117588
2017-05-01 442.416843031282
2017-06-01 413.608027137316
2017-07-01 427.081148042302
2017-08-01 455.838806212347
2017-09-01 439.827804087290
2017-10-01 415.018236677103
2017-11-01 500.896222134461
2017-12-01 435.604291126598
2018-01-01 330.927312338757
2018-02-01 416.604968907450
2018-03-01 434.066037053934
2018-04-01 403.353114809420
2018-05-01 523.135239258007
2018-06-01 397.840132788260
2018-07-01 379.440256885828
2018-08-01 355.980752099741
2018-09-01 375.273389882747
2018-10-01 483.666857832293
2018-11-01 353.986304505627
2018-12-01 349.943056582827
2019-01-01 368.512352499635
2019-02-01 346.284156189657
2019-03-01 301.453098523188
2019-04-01 370.365447615271
2019-05-01 353.434505714333
2019-06-01 331.210954216833
2019-07-01 393.059897156640
2019-08-01 388.653099278777
2019-09-01 369.922296284467
2019-10-01 389.140004415383
2019-11-01 362.962719163020
2019-12-01 317.885582503740
2020-01-01 512.016750049064
2020-02-01 395.847680035650
2020-03-01 376.252558793720
2020-04-01 257.946765009982
2020-05-01 315.289853795168
2020-06-01 367.418925145467
2020-07-01 422.041828428474
2020-08-01 380.036772226119
2020-09-01 413.000316224322
2020-10-01 412.628703656794
2020-11-01 414.333321361949
2020-12-01 423.824761087767
2021-01-01 444.115838935347
2021-02-01 481.033460677061
2021-03-01 455.640518290343
2021-04-01 492.700495508499
2021-05-01 435.808097623901
2021-06-01 444.318831410899
2021-07-01 367.165204335127
2021-08-01 404.404713800657
2021-09-01 384.685481038640
2021-10-01 357.508299615543
2021-11-01 404.079113147210
2021-12-01 420.934032551344
2022-01-01 375.852491981669
2022-02-01 402.030027720089
2022-03-01 410.276407029143
2022-04-01 338.281603607591
2022-05-01 339.490570143707
2022-06-01 310.533350809393
2022-07-01 334.746508328277
2022-08-01 316.373785261710
2022-09-01 403.062020837442
2022-10-01 314.754193285116
2022-11-01 326.207280883800
2022-12-01 323.367179154633
2023-01-01 306.695463313240
2023-02-01 286.720239448900
2023-03-01 297.216291071550
2023-04-01 285.880875391590
2023-05-01 312.481848819560
2023-06-01 365.096781404484
2023-07-01 290.534830289278
2023-08-01 331.686870096173
2023-09-01 267.575270805805
2023-10-01 297.731557964811
2023-11-01 284.606147490522
2023-12-01 284.672875005081
2024-01-01 315.227216163408
2024-02-01 312.937680483066
2024-03-01 295.527037150828
2024-04-01 328.031638985529
2024-05-01 338.342354407434
2024-06-01 347.739370845817
2024-07-01 305.509968933580
2024-08-01 293.087674004030
2024-09-01 292.520898814605
2024-10-01 308.323772672870
2024-11-01 276.803198339277
2024-12-01 273.993581097440
2025-01-01 290.216527168765
2025-02-01 231.590447710590
2025-03-01 270.752732481825
2025-04-01 312.470361859855
2025-05-01 294.555943339856
2025-06-01 232.119375324487
2025-07-01 314.829744585289
2025-08-01 308.172064368014
2025-09-01 329.199138044165
2025-10-01 348.720297258933

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