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W o April 9, 1999 - Includes Chapel Hill, CanborD, Hillsborough and parts of Mebane a.k.a. "mobile homes" - Does not include replacement units in parks. The attached table shows new housing starts in Orange County (including the municipalities of Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Hillsborough and Mebane) for calendar year 1998. For Orange County and the Town of Hillsborough, new housing data was compiled from Orange County's ORPERMIT computerized building permit system. Data from Carrboro and Chapel Hill are provided by the Inspection agencies for both jurisdictions, and data from the City of Mebane is compiled from records of the Orange County Tax Assessor's Office. 1998 Points of Interest New Housing Starts Up 30% Overall! A total of 1,506 new housing units were e permitted in all of Orange County in 1998, which is a whopping 30% increase over 1997 and the largest single- year jump since the building boom of the mid -late '80's. New single-family' compromised 60% (899) of the new housing starts, with 31 % new multi - family (465) and 96/o new manufactured (mobile) homes (141). This compares to 64%, 24%, and 11 % respectively in 1997. Nearly half of new units were in Chapel Hill jurisdiction. The largest number of new housing permits were in Chapel Hill's jurisdiction with 738 new units (49.0%), followed by Orange County with 535 (35.5%), Carrboro 157 (10.4%), Hillsborough 72 (4.8%), and Mebane 3 (0.2%). Single-Family Houses Up 21% After suffering a slight drop in numbers from 1996-97 (755 to 745), single- family housing starts increased to 899 units in 1998. Just over 55% of these were within the municipal jurisdictions of Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, Carrboro and Mebane. Rural Orange and Hillsborough Reach New Single-Family Highs By far the most significant trends in new single-family starts occurred in the rural County jurisdiction and Hillsborough. Both jurisdictions reached high-