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The 2026-09 housing-starts rate is seasonally adjusted and annualized. Starts count the beginning of construction, not completed homes or existing-home sales. This is not the number of homes physically started during the reporting month.
Numbers tell a bigger story.
Reported snapshot · does not accrue with time
What makes this number move?
Reporting period: 2026-09
Changes when a new source observation is loaded.
Use the published Census/HUD total starts, seasonally adjusted annual rate. Import the revised preceding month and same month one year earlier.
Annualized pace, not actual homes started during this month or completed homes. Sampling uncertainty can make monthly changes statistically insignificant.
Housing starts · annualized pace over time
Published values in the current source vintage. The line joins observations; it does not show a historical WN forecast.
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| Period | Official value (housing units / year) |
|---|---|
| 2025-09 | 1,319,000 |
| 2026-08 | 1,288,000 |
| 2026-09 | 1,221,000 |
EXPLORE THE SCALE
What changed in the reported observations?
Housing starts · annualized pace
2025-09: 1,319,000 → 2026-09: 1,221,000.
Difference: -98,000 (-7.4% relative to the first displayed observation). This compares the first and last observations in this board’s displayed series, not necessarily consecutive periods or the same seasonal window. Check the source vintage and units before interpreting the change.
READING THIS BOARD
Are starts, sales and permits the same activity?
Permits authorize construction, starts mark construction beginning, and sales describe transactions. One home may appear in different series at different times.
Make a fair comparison
Compare the same series. A seasonally adjusted annual rate is a pace, not the count of homes built that month.
How this number works
Use the published Census/HUD total starts, seasonally adjusted annual rate. Import the revised preceding month and same month one year earlier.
Annualized pace, not actual homes started during this month or completed homes. Sampling uncertainty can make monthly changes statistically insignificant.
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Housing starts · annualized pace
- Period
- 2026-09
- Source release date
- 2026-10-20
- Version
- Official source import · 2026-09
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-26T15:30:32.373Z