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New Privately-Owned Housing Units Started: Total Units
As provided by the Census, start occurs when excavation begins for the footings or foundation of a building. All housing units in a multifamily building are defined as being started when this excavation begins. Beginning with data for September 1992, estimates of housing starts include units in structures being totally rebuilt on an existing foundation.
- Source: FRED (St. Louis Fed)
- Category: economy
- Tags: housingfred
- Rows: 812
- Date range: 1959-01-01 – 2026-08-01 (date)
- Last refresh: 2026-09-21T00:20:30+00:00 (cadence: weekly)
- Quality score: 100.0 / 100
commercial use OK
freshness: fresh
Data preview
Showing rows 1–100 of 812 · page 1 of 9
| date | value |
|---|---|
| 1959-01-01 | 1657 |
| 1959-02-01 | 1667 |
| 1959-03-01 | 1620 |
| 1959-04-01 | 1590 |
| 1959-05-01 | 1498 |
| 1959-06-01 | 1503 |
| 1959-07-01 | 1547 |
| 1959-08-01 | 1430 |
| 1959-09-01 | 1540 |
| 1959-10-01 | 1355 |
| 1959-11-01 | 1416 |
| 1959-12-01 | 1601 |
| 1960-01-01 | 1460 |
| 1960-02-01 | 1503 |
| 1960-03-01 | 1109 |
| 1960-04-01 | 1289 |
| 1960-05-01 | 1271 |
| 1960-06-01 | 1247 |
| 1960-07-01 | 1197 |
| 1960-08-01 | 1344 |
| 1960-09-01 | 1097 |
| 1960-10-01 | 1246 |
| 1960-11-01 | 1246 |
| 1960-12-01 | 1063 |
| 1961-01-01 | 1183 |
| 1961-02-01 | 1226 |
| 1961-03-01 | 1312 |
| 1961-04-01 | 1166 |
| 1961-05-01 | 1228 |
| 1961-06-01 | 1382 |
| 1961-07-01 | 1335 |
| 1961-08-01 | 1312 |
| 1961-09-01 | 1429 |
| 1961-10-01 | 1415 |
| 1961-11-01 | 1385 |
| 1961-12-01 | 1365 |
| 1962-01-01 | 1361 |
| 1962-02-01 | 1278 |
| 1962-03-01 | 1443 |
| 1962-04-01 | 1524 |
| 1962-05-01 | 1483 |
| 1962-06-01 | 1404 |
| 1962-07-01 | 1450 |
| 1962-08-01 | 1517 |
| 1962-09-01 | 1324 |
| 1962-10-01 | 1533 |
| 1962-11-01 | 1622 |
| 1962-12-01 | 1564 |
| 1963-01-01 | 1244 |
| 1963-02-01 | 1456 |
| 1963-03-01 | 1534 |
| 1963-04-01 | 1689 |
| 1963-05-01 | 1641 |
| 1963-06-01 | 1588 |
| 1963-07-01 | 1614 |
| 1963-08-01 | 1639 |
| 1963-09-01 | 1763 |
| 1963-10-01 | 1779 |
| 1963-11-01 | 1622 |
| 1963-12-01 | 1491 |
| 1964-01-01 | 1603 |
| 1964-02-01 | 1820 |
| 1964-03-01 | 1517 |
| 1964-04-01 | 1448 |
| 1964-05-01 | 1467 |
| 1964-06-01 | 1550 |
| 1964-07-01 | 1562 |
| 1964-08-01 | 1569 |
| 1964-09-01 | 1455 |
| 1964-10-01 | 1524 |
| 1964-11-01 | 1486 |
| 1964-12-01 | 1484 |
| 1965-01-01 | 1361 |
| 1965-02-01 | 1433 |
| 1965-03-01 | 1423 |
| 1965-04-01 | 1438 |
| 1965-05-01 | 1478 |
| 1965-06-01 | 1488 |
| 1965-07-01 | 1529 |
| 1965-08-01 | 1432 |
| 1965-09-01 | 1482 |
| 1965-10-01 | 1452 |
| 1965-11-01 | 1460 |
| 1965-12-01 | 1656 |
| 1966-01-01 | 1370 |
| 1966-02-01 | 1378 |
| 1966-03-01 | 1394 |
| 1966-04-01 | 1352 |
| 1966-05-01 | 1265 |
| 1966-06-01 | 1194 |
| 1966-07-01 | 1086 |
| 1966-08-01 | 1119 |
| 1966-09-01 | 1046 |
| 1966-10-01 | 843 |
| 1966-11-01 | 961 |
| 1966-12-01 | 990 |
| 1967-01-01 | 1067 |
| 1967-02-01 | 1123 |
| 1967-03-01 | 1056 |
| 1967-04-01 | 1091 |
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Fields
| Name | Type | Description | Unit / format | Nullable | Example values |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
date |
date | Not documented by source | Not documented by source | No | 1959-01-01, 1959-02-01, 1959-03-01 |
value |
double | Not documented by source | Not documented by source | No | 1657, 1667, 1620 |
“Not documented by source” means the provider publishes no per-field documentation — descriptions are never invented.
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Source & license
- Provider: FRED (St. Louis Fed)
- Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) is maintained by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and publishes hundreds of thousands of U.S. and international economic time series from public and private sources.
- Provider site: https://fred.stlouisfed.org
- Source data URL: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST
- License: OK for commercial use. Attribution is required when you use this data.
- Commercial use: Yes
- Attribution required: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED)
- Terms: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/legal
- Refresh cadence: weekly
- Provenance: Ingested by the FRED (St. Louis Fed) connector (v1.0.0) from https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST; latest snapshot 20260921T002030Z-b56e4a66a2d8 (sha256 b56e4a66a2d8…)