US housing starts
ObservedNew privately owned housing units started, at a seasonally adjusted annual rate, in thousands.
Ingestedfrom Federal Reserve Bank of St. LouisfreshJSON export
Current value, World
no observations ingested yet
- Geography
- World (WLD)
- Observation date
- none
- Unit
- thousands of units, seasonally adjusted annual rate
- Frequency
- monthly
- Ingested
- never
1-year changeno observations ingested yet
10-year trendno observations ingested yet
Historical series
US housing starts, World
Observed
No observations ingested yet for World.
Definition
What this measures
New privately-owned housing units started: total units, from the Census Bureau and HUD New Residential Construction release, distributed through FRED as HOUST. Monthly, thousands of units, seasonally adjusted annual rate. A start is the beginning of excavation for the footings or foundation.
- Direction
- higher is better
- Geography level
- country
- Slug
- us-housing-starts
Infrastructure & Logistics
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Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
- Classification
- Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
- Source organization
- Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, FRED economic data (API)
- Series ID
HOUSTlast fetch: ok- Source links
- Source homepage: https://fred.stlouisfed.org
- License and attribution
- License review requiredFederal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, FRED. Individual series carry their own originating-source license.
- Last source update
- 2026-08-18 07:33:21-05(source revision label as published by the provider)
- Last ingestion
- last successful runfresh
- Last run
- success2026-09-07 10:04 UTC
- Parser version
- fred-api/1.0.0
- Methodology version
- 1.0
- Quality and confidence
- Revised in the following month and at the annual revision each spring.Ingestion rejects values outside 0 to 10,000 thousands of units, seasonally adjusted annual rate.
- Revisions
- no observations ingested yet