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The U.S. Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce said construction spending during July 2011 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $789.5 billion, 1.3 percent below the revised June estimate of $799.8 billion. The July figure is 0.1 percent above the July 2010 estimate of $789 billion. During the first seven months of this year, construction spending amounted to $435.5 billion, 3.5 percent below the $451.2 billion for the same period in 2010.
Private construction
Spending on private construction was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $514.5 billion, 0.9 percent below the revised June estimate of $519.0 billion. Residential construction was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $248.1 billion in July, 1.4 percent below the revised June estimate of $251.7 billion. Nonresidential construction was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $266.4 billion in July, 0.4 percent below the revised June estimate of $267.3 billion. The biggest decline in private construction was in the manufacturing category, which fell six percent from June to $34.3 billion
Public construction
In July, the estimated seasonally adjusted annual rate of public construction spending was $275 billion, 2.1 percent below the revised June estimate of $280.8 billion. Educational construction was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $67.2 billion, 4.3 percent below the revised June estimate of $70.2 billion. Highway construction was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $74.9 billion, 0.5 percent above the revised June estimate of $74.5 billion. The residential (-7.1%), office (-3.4%), healthcare (-3.7%) and educational (-4.3%) categories all fell more than the 2.1 percent decline that the public construction category saw as a whole in July.
Value Of New Construction Put In Place — July 2011
Value of Construction Put-in-Place ($ billions, seasonally adjusted annual rate)
1-Preliminary; 2-Revised
Note: The U.S. Census department changed its construction categories beginning with its May 2003 statistics.
With the changes in the project classifications, data now presented are not directly comparable with those data previously published in the regular-format press releases and tables. Direct comparisons can only be made at the total, total private, total state and local, total federal, and total public levels for annual and not seasonally adjusted monthly data. For more information, check out http://www.census.gov/const/www/c30index.html.