Housing starts in the United States rose by 4.6% from the previous month to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 1.321 million in June of 2025, trimming the revised 9.7% slide in the previous month, and loosely in line with market expectations of 1.3 million units. Starts were carried by housing with five ore more units (30.6% to 414 thousand), offsetting the 4.6% decline in housing with a single unit to 883 thousand. By geographical regions, starts were solely supported by the Northeast (73.3% to 182 thousand), where multi-unit housing is the most concentrated. In turn, starts fell in the Midwest (-5.3% to 179 thousand), the West (-1.4% to 286 thousand), and the South (-0.7% to 674 thousand).