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Total residential construction spending fell 30.03% as compared to June 2008 and a whopping 63.62% from the peak set in March 2006.
Worse off though was private single family residential construction spending which declined 51.11% as compared to June 2008 and a truly grotesque 79.86% from the peak set in February 2006.
Non-residential construction spending, currently accounting for just under half of all private construction spending, posted another year-over-year decline of 4.78%.
The following charts (click for larger versions) show private residential construction spending, private residential single family construction spending and private non-residential construction spending broken out and plotted since 1993 along with the year-over-year and peak percent change to each since 1994 and 2000 – 2005.
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