Home building is thriving in along the Atlantic coast and in the Southwestern and Rocky Mountain states.
The South Atlantic, Mountain, and West South Central divisions of the U.S. accounted for 60 percent of all new single-family housing starts in 2016, according to NAHB analysis of the 2016 Survey of Construction.
The South Atlantic division led the way with nearly 235,000 starts last year. The region contains coastal states from Florida north to Maryland.
The West South Central division, which has states including Texas and Oklahoma, had 128,000 housing starts last year, and the Mountain division, which contains Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and five other states, had 100,000 new single-family units started in 2016.
Nationally, 779,082 new single-family units were started last year, a 10 percent increase from 2015.
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