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Iowa building permits & home builders

Live single-family residential permit data and the most active licensed builders across all 99 counties in Iowa. Updated weekly from US Census Bureau Building Permits Survey + county public records.

Permits (12mo)
6,607
Statewide single-family
Counties tracked
99
All scored 0–100
Top market
Polk
1,987 permits
Active builders
0
Top 10 ranked below

Top counties in Iowa by permit volume

Most-active markets in the state over the last 12 months.

  1. Polk County1,987
  2. Dallas County564
  3. Johnson County509
  4. Linn County478
  5. Warren County272
  6. Scott County251
  7. Sioux County180
  8. Black Hawk County172
  9. Story County135
  10. Dubuque County130

Top home builders in Iowa

Most-active licensed builders across the state in the last 12 months.

Per-permit builder attribution not yet available for Iowa. Census Bureau aggregate data is loaded.

All 99 counties in Iowa

Adair 60 Adams 0 Allamakee 35 Appanoose 6 Audubon 4 Benton 18 Black Hawk 172 Boone 42 Bremer 36 Buchanan 30 Buena Vista 13 Butler 18 Calhoun 14 Carroll 23 Cass 7 Cedar 36 Cerro Gordo 38 Cherokee 11 Chickasaw 5 Clarke 103 Clay 23 Clayton 40 Clinton 40 Crawford 11 Dallas 564 Davis 2 Decatur 2 Delaware 13 Des Moines 9 Dickinson 65 Dubuque 130 Emmet 1 Fayette 16 Floyd 34 Franklin 6 Fremont 6 Greene 1 Grundy 7 Guthrie 29 Hamilton 3 Hancock 17 Hardin 24 Harrison 14 Henry 28 Howard 4 Humboldt 9 Ida 4 Iowa 7 Jackson 18 Jasper 21 Jefferson 2 Johnson 509 Jones 16 Keokuk 1 Kossuth 5 Lee 7 Linn 478 Louisa 14 Lucas 3 Lyon 42 Madison 56 Mahaska 8 Marion 100 Marshall 16 Mills 26 Mitchell 34 Monona 4 Monroe 10 Montgomery 11 Muscatine 54 O'Brien 13 Osceola 6 Page 16 Palo Alto 8 Plymouth 24 Pocahontas 4 Polk 1,987 Pottawattamie 121 Poweshiek 21 Ringgold 3 Sac 12 Scott 251 Shelby 4 Sioux 180 Story 135 Tama 11 Taylor 5 Union 1 Van Buren 0 Wapello 43 Warren 272 Washington 14 Wayne 73 Webster 33 Winnebago 3 Winneshiek 20 Woodbury 123 Worth 2 Wright 7

For LBM & trade operators serving Iowa

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