Zillow Home Value Index, Zillow Home Value Index, bottom tier and Zillow Observed Rent Index, and every figure derived from them, reports included.
Visual story
Is New Jersey building?
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Choose a town, county or ZIP to explore its records.
Across New Jersey
Homes permitted are plans; homes completed are homes; homes demolished come off the count. Statewide over the years first, then each county's latest year, ordered by net homes added for every 1,000 it already had.
What kind of homes were finished
15,307 reported new homes finished · New Jersey
38.7%Houses & two-family
New homes in one- or two-family buildings. Tiles represent homes, not buildings.
100 tiles ≈ reported shares, not individual homes or a map. NJ DCA construction records · 2025. Reporting towns only. Preliminary figures.
Permits: the Census Bureau’s Building Permits Survey. Completions and demolitions: certificates of occupancy and demolition permits reported to the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, which not every town reports every year, so a county’s totals can run low. Net homes added: completions less demolitions, per 1,000 existing homes. More visual stories →