New Privately Owned Residential Housing Units Authorized To Be Built
Annual 1987
New Jersey Counties
Single- Two- 3-or-4- 5-or-More-
  Total Total Family Family Family Family
County Value Units Units Units Units Units
Atlantic County 235,805,454 3,971 1,780 116 22 2,053
Bergen County 280,999,491 3,497 1,344 320 31 1,802
Burlington County 182,152,355 3,808 3,081 6 31 690
Camden County 124,234,802 2,448 2,060 34 32 322
Cape May County 131,430,465 2,067 1,054 680 35 298
Cumberland County 34,518,109 653 502 42 9 100
Essex County 97,280,881 1,062 514 48 58 442
Gloucester County 100,961,164 2,191 1,954 14 10 213
Hudson County 118,282,469 1,801 82 414 38 1,267
Hunterdon County 132,413,044 1,483 1,052 0 0 431
Mercer County 124,660,043 1,726 1,317 0 3 406
Middlesex County 305,488,218 4,102 2,927 64 83 1,028
Monmouth County 348,055,664 4,356 3,840 26 27 463
Morris County 283,294,908 2,563 2,230 60 4 269
Ocean County 468,508,993 7,268 6,151 138 149 830
Passaic County 79,845,706 1,163 879 66 8 210
Salem County 16,815,620 273 223 2 0 48
Somerset County 245,285,743 3,705 2,763 140 153 649
Sussex County 126,671,874 1,576 1,488 56 6 26
Union County 56,844,319 781 537 178 12 54
Warren County 81,481,929 968 719 4 4 241
TOTALS 3,575,031,251 51,462 36,497 2,408 715 11,842
This table is prepared from annualized building permit data.  Due to differences in cutoff dates, annualized data 
 may differ from annual averages derived from aggregated monthly data.
Source:  US Census Bureau
Prepared by:  New Jersey Department of Labor, 7/97