US housing starts fall 5.2% in September, Census Bureau says

US housing starts in September were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,221,000, down 5.2 percent (±11.8 percent) from the revised August estimate of 1,288,000 and 7.4 percent (±11.5 percent) below September 2025, the Census Bureau said on October 20. Building permits were at 1,400,000, 0.2 percent below August and 3.0 percent below September 2025. Single-family starts were at 859,000, down 4.6 percent (±10.0 percent) from August. Housing completions were at 1,192,000, up 2.2 percent (±10.8 percent) from August and down 14.0 percent (±11.1 percent) from a year earlier.