Metro area housing permits

Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro area building permits: new housing

Name: Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro area new housing units authorized by building permits
Creator: US Permit Search
License: https://www.uspermitsearch.com/legal/terms

472 new housing units permitted in the 12 months to September 2026, +2% on the year before, with $137M of construction value.

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October 2024	47 units	11 in 5+ unit buildings
November 2024	31 units	12 in 5+ unit buildings
December 2024	27 units	10 in 5+ unit buildings
January 2025	22 units	0 in 5+ unit buildings
February 2025	56 units	10 in 5+ unit buildings
March 2025	47 units	0 in 5+ unit buildings
April 2025	93 units	0 in 5+ unit buildings
May 2025	31 units	0 in 5+ unit buildings
June 2025	24 units	0 in 5+ unit buildings
July 2025	29 units	0 in 5+ unit buildings
August 2025	33 units	0 in 5+ unit buildings
September 2025	22 units	0 in 5+ unit buildings
October 2025	40 units	0 in 5+ unit buildings
November 2025	24 units	0 in 5+ unit buildings
December 2025	21 units	0 in 5+ unit buildings
January 2026

By building size

Last 12 months. Value is the construction cost reported on the permits.

Building size	Buildings	Units	Value
Single-family	453	453	$134M
2 units	6	12	$1.6M
3–4 units	2	7	$1.1M
5+ units	0	0	—

By year

Year	Housing units	In 5+ unit buildings	Value
2025	487	0	$161M
2024	301	0	$99.7M

Key facts

Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro area permitted 472 new privately owned housing units in the 12 months to September 2026, worth $136,650,000 in construction value.
That is +2% compared with the 12 months before (462 units).
453 were single-family homes and 0 were in apartment buildings with 5 or more units (0 buildings).
The average single-family home permitted was valued at $295,790.
In September 2026, the latest month published, 44 units were permitted.
It ranked #310 of 922 U.S. metro and micro areas by housing units permitted in the period.
In 2025, the full year, 487 units were permitted ($161M).

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, data through September 2026. New privately owned housing units authorized by building permits, including the Bureau’s estimates for places that didn’t report; commercial buildings and renovations are not counted. How we use it

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Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro area building permits: new housing

Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro area building permits: new housing

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