How many homes the Wilmington market approved for each household that moved in

the Wilmington market · Data as of 2026-09-07 · ALEX Intelligence

Methodology

Source:

U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, county annual totals, 2023; and U.S. Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Migration Data, county-to-county inflows, 2022-23

Measure

One-unit homes permitted, ranked highest first across Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender, NC (3 ranked in total).

How the headline figure is computed

One-unit homes permitted in 2023 (7,100) divided by the net number of households the IRS recorded moving into this market's counties in the same year (8,372 arriving less 5,014 departing = 3,358 net). Both figures are for 2023 and for the same 3 counties, which is what makes them a ratio rather than two unrelated numbers. The IRS withholds flows below its disclosure threshold, so the net figure is a floor and this ratio is therefore an upper bound.

Universe

One-unit permits against net IRS migration, both for 2023 and both over this market's own counties.

Vintage

2023

Reproduce this query

https://www2.census.gov/econ/bps/County/co2023a.txt https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/countyinflow2223.csv https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/countyoutflow2223.csv

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