US single-family housing starts
ObservedNew Privately-Owned Housing Units Started: Single-Family Units, as published by FRED (HOUST1F).
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 single-family housing starts, World
Observed
No observations ingested yet for World.
Definition
What this measures
FRED series HOUST1F: New Privately-Owned Housing Units Started: Single-Family Units. Thousands of Units, monthly. Registered for the knowledge graph, insights and forecasts; not yet curated for public listing.
- Direction
- contextual, not scored
- Geography level
- country
- Slug
- us-single-family-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
HOUST1Flast 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 07:33:27-05(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
- Values are revised by the source; each revision is stored as a new row and the vintage date is kept as source_revision.
- Revisions
- no observations ingested yet