Monthly Census data
US Construction Spending
+0.9% from the prior month · -1.7% from a year earlier
Next Census release: November 2, 2026, 10:00am ET
Where the money is going
Seasonally adjusted annual rate, August 2026. Private and public add up to the total; so do residential and nonresidential.
| Segment | Annual rate | Month | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Private | $1,655.3B | +1.1% | -3.1% |
| Public | $547.8B | +0.2% | +2.5% |
| Residential | $894.6B | +1.1% | -4.8% |
| Nonresidential | $1,308.5B | +0.7% | +0.5% |
The last 13 months
Total construction spending, $ trillions, annual rate.
Bar lengths are scaled between the period low and high to show direction, not proportion.
About this data
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Value of Construction Put in Place (via FRED: TTLCONS). Figures are the Census Bureau’s seasonally adjusted annual rate of construction put in place, in current dollars, and the latest month is revised in later releases. Census publishes the report on the first business day of most months, two months after the month it covers.
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