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)812 rowsUpdated: 9/21/2026
housingfred
Quality
100
Attribution
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED)
Schema
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date | string | |
| value | float |
Sample rows
| date | value |
|---|---|
| 1959-01-01 | 1657 |
| 1959-02-01 | 1667 |
| 1959-03-01 | 1620 |
| 1959-04-01 | 1590 |
| 1959-05-01 | 1498 |
Use with an LLM
Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).
cURL
curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/fred/housing_starts" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'Python
import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/fred/housing_starts").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/fred/housing_starts
Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.