Housing Starts — Total
Latest value
63,974 dwellings as of 2026-08
+6.14%YoY
Housing Starts — Total: history
Unit: dwellings
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About Housing Starts — Total
Housing starts, published monthly by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, count the dwellings on which construction began. They are the standard measure of housing investment, split by tenure: owner-occupied, rented, issued (company) housing and built-for-sale.
Recent values
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2026-08 | 63,974 dwellings |
| 2026-07 | 66,439 dwellings |
| 2026-06 | 66,344 dwellings |
| 2026-05 | 57,877 dwellings |
| 2026-04 | 62,569 dwellings |
| 2026-03 | 63,495 dwellings |
| 2026-02 | 57,630 dwellings |
| 2026-01 | 55,898 dwellings |
| 2025-12 | 62,118 dwellings |
| 2025-11 | 59,524 dwellings |
| 2025-10 | 71,871 dwellings |
| 2025-09 | 63,570 dwellings |
Source and data handling
- Source
- MLIT
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- dwellings
- Last ingested
- 2026-10-05
Created by editing the Building Starts (Housing Starts) (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, https://www.e-stat.go.jp/en/stat-search/files?toukei=00600120) and the Travel Agency Handling Amounts (Japan Tourism Agency, https://www.mlit.go.jp/kankocho/tokei_hakusyo/ryokogyotoriatsukaigaku.html).