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North Dakota building permits & home builders

Live single-family residential permit data and the most active licensed builders across all 53 counties in North Dakota. Updated weekly from US Census Bureau Building Permits Survey + county public records.

Permits (12mo)
1,289
Statewide single-family
Counties tracked
53
All scored 0–100
Top market
Cass
442 permits
Active builders
0
Top 10 ranked below

Top counties in North Dakota by permit volume

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

  1. Cass County442
  2. Burleigh County236
  3. Williams County119
  4. Grand Forks County78
  5. Morton County72
  6. Ward County65
  7. Stark County43
  8. McKenzie County34
  9. McLean County27
  10. Richland County27

Top home builders in North Dakota

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

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

All 53 counties in North Dakota

Adams 1 Barnes 1 Benson 0 Billings 4 Bottineau 13 Bowman 2 Burke 0 Burleigh 236 Cass 442 Cavalier 4 Dickey 1 Divide 0 Dunn 9 Eddy 0 Emmons 23 Foster 4 Golden Valley 5 Grand Forks 78 Grant 0 Griggs 0 Hettinger 0 Kidder 0 LaMoure 2 Logan 0 McHenry 8 McIntosh 2 McKenzie 34 McLean 27 Mercer 1 Morton 72 Mountrail 18 Nelson 4 Oliver 5 Pembina 0 Pierce 0 Ramsey 1 Ransom 3 Renville 0 Richland 27 Rolette 0 Sargent 3 Sheridan 5 Sioux 0 Slope 0 Stark 43 Steele 1 Stutsman 18 Towner 0 Traill 3 Walsh 5 Ward 65 Wells 0 Williams 119

For LBM & trade operators serving North Dakota

North Dakota is a tracked market for PermitFocus. If you're an LBM (lumber and building materials) operator, roofing contractor, HVAC company, plumber, concrete supplier, doors/windows dealer, paint distributor, or flooring contractor selling into new single-family construction — North Dakota's 1,289 permits/yr represent active accounts you could be pursuing.

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