How much the pace of new home approvals in the Grand Strand changed in a year

the Grand Strand · Data as of · ALEX Intelligence

-10.5% One-Year Change in One-Unit Homes Permitted (2025) — 2025 against 2024
#CountyOne-unit homes permitted
1Horry County6,418
2Georgetown County377

Methodology

Source:
U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, county annual totals, 2024 and 2025
Measure
One-unit homes permitted, ranked highest first across Georgetown, Horry, SC (2 ranked in total).
How the headline figure is computed
One-unit homes permitted across this market's 2 counties in 2025 (6,795) against 2024 (7,596), from the Census Building Permits Survey. Each county's own total is in the table below; the market figure is their sum.
Universe
One-unit permits only. A five-or-more-unit row is a single apartment building whose unit count was decided years earlier, so including it makes a county's total jump by hundreds when one project files.
Vintage
2025
Reproduce this query
https://www2.census.gov/econ/bps/County/co2025a.txt https://www2.census.gov/econ/bps/County/co2024a.txt

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