$0.9M of Permitted Work in ZIP 90027, Los Angeles — June 2026

Start with the money. Inside Los Angeles ZIP 90027 — the Los Feliz and Griffith Park stretch east of Hollywood — residential building permits added up to $0.9M of declared work over the reporting window of May 11 – June 9, 2026. That is a modest figure for a high-profile neighborhood, and the gap between its reputation and its permit dollars is exactly what this report unpacks.

Every number here is a slice of one sealed snapshot of the wider Los Angeles dataset, not a separate survey of 90027. We cut the metro's permit rows down to this ZIP and report what remains. Residential building permits (single-family and small multi-family) are in scope; commercial and sub-trade permits are excluded at ingest. This is not a count of all construction permits issued in each city.

Where 90027 Lands Among the City's ZIPs

The fastest way to read 90027 is to set it beside the Los Angeles ZIP codes that filed the most residential permits in the same window. The table below does that — and it shows 90027 sitting at the quiet end of a very wide range, both in permit count and in declared dollars.

ZIP 90027 recorded 30 residential permits worth $0.9M in the window, against a citywide total of 4,042 permits and $201.2M in declared value.

Read top to bottom, the spread is the story. The Pacific Palisades ZIP 90272 alone carries $66.2M of declared work — wildfire-driven rebuilding pulls a single ZIP far above the pack. By contrast, 90027 files a thin slate: 30 permits is one of the smaller counts among the city's busier residential ZIPs, and $0.9M keeps it near the floor on dollars too. Los Feliz is largely built out, with a mature, owner-occupied housing stock that turns over slowly, so most permit activity here is incremental rather than ground-up.

Key Findings

• 30 residential permits filed in ZIP 90027, according to our sealed permit snapshots.

• $0.9M in total declared valuation for those permits, per the same snapshot.

• $12,500 median permit valuation in 90027 — a mid-range household-project figure.

• Alteration & Repair is the leading work type, with 24 of the ZIP's permits.

• Citywide, Los Angeles logged 4,042 permits worth $201.2M, with 93.5% carrying a valuation.

A building permit is a municipal authorization to perform specific construction work, recorded with the parcel, the work type, and a declared dollar value before the job begins — which makes the permit file an early, public signal of where money is about to be spent.

ZIP 90027 Permit Activity, May 11 – June 9, 2026

Here is the ZIP on its own terms. Three figures define it: how many permits, how much total declared value, and the median permit size that tells you what a typical job looks like.

The median of $12,500 is the number to dwell on. It sits above the citywide median of $7,000, which means the typical 90027 job is a touch larger than the typical Los Angeles residential job. That fits an established neighborhood: fewer tiny one-line filings, more mid-sized interior and system upgrades on homes that have appreciated enough to justify the investment. With only 30 permits behind the total, a single larger filing moves the dollar figure noticeably — so read $0.9M as a small-sample snapshot, not a trend.

What Is Getting Built in 90027

The work in 90027 is overwhelmingly one kind of job. The dominant category is Bldg-Alter/Repair / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling — the city's label for an alteration-and-repair permit on a single-family or duplex home — and it accounts for 24 of the ZIP's permits.

An Alteration & Repair permit covers work on an existing home that changes or restores it without adding new floor area: kitchen and bathroom remodels, re-roofing, window and door replacement, electrical and plumbing upgrades, foundation and seismic retrofit work, fire and water-damage repair. It is the workhorse permit of a built-out neighborhood. Owners are not expanding the footprint of their lot — they are modernizing, repairing, and protecting what is already there. When 24 of a ZIP's permits sit in this single bucket, the market is renovation, not expansion.

That concentration is itself a useful read. Contractors and trades who serve 90027 should expect remodel and repair calls, not new-construction or large-addition pipelines. Suppliers can weight inventory toward finish materials, fixtures, roofing, and electrical and plumbing components rather than framing and structural packages. The neighborhood's permit mix is telling you what kind of crew and what kind of stock the work here actually demands.

It also shapes how an outreach plan should read. A roofer, a kitchen-and-bath remodeler, or a seismic-retrofit specialist has a credible reason to knock on doors in this ZIP; a tract-home builder does not. Because alteration permits surface before the work is done, they give trades a window to reach a homeowner who has already committed budget but has not yet locked in every subcontractor. That timing is the practical value of reading the permit file rather than the sold-listing file.

Worth saying plainly: in a small-sample ZIP, one large alteration permit can shift the median and the total noticeably. We report the sealed figures as they stand and resist the temptation to smooth them. The honest read of 90027 this window is a quiet, renovation-led market — not a hot pocket of new development, and not a market to write off either.

How 90027 Sits Inside the Los Angeles Picture

Zooming out, the citywide snapshot gives 90027 its context. Los Angeles is the largest jurisdiction in our June edition, and its category mix mirrors what 90027 shows at the ZIP level: alteration and repair dominates, additions and new builds trail well behind.

The citywide leading categories underline the same pattern seen in 90027.

Across Los Angeles, alteration and repair leads with 2,486 permits, far ahead of additions at 422 and new builds at 359.

The citywide distribution is sharply skewed, and the quartiles prove it. A lower quartile of $2,500 and an upper quartile of $35,000 straddle a median of $7,000, while the single largest permit reaches $4,000,000. Translation: most Los Angeles residential permits are small repair and upgrade jobs, with a thin tail of very large projects pulling the $201.2M total upward. 90027's own median of $12,500 lands inside the city's interquartile band but on the higher side — consistent with fewer, slightly heftier renovations. For a fuller metro breakdown, see our Los Angeles permit report for June 2026.

Methodology

This page is a ZIP-level cut of the same sealed daily snapshots that feed our metro reports. We did not run a separate collection for 90027; we filtered the Los Angeles rows down to this ZIP and aggregated over the window. The source is the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety via data.lacity.org (Socrata).

All figures are computed directly from US Tech Automations' sealed daily permit snapshots; nothing is estimated, modeled, or extrapolated.

Scope matters: residential building permits (single-family and small multi-family) are included; commercial and sub-trade permits are excluded at ingest. This is not a count of all construction permits issued in each city. Citywide, 3,779 of 4,042 permits carried a declared valuation — a 93.5% coverage rate — so a small share of records contribute to counts but not to dollar totals.

How the snapshot is built:

1. Collect. Each day we pull newly issued residential permits from the LADBS Socrata feed, capturing the parcel, work type, and declared valuation.

2. Normalize. We map the raw permit-type labels to consistent categories and attach the ZIP code so the metro file can be sliced by neighborhood.

3. Seal. The day's records are content-hashed and written to an append-only store, so the snapshot for any past date can be reproduced exactly.

4. Aggregate. Over the reporting window, we sum permits and valuations per ZIP and per category to produce the tables above.

Our pipeline runs this loop without manual edits, which is why the same query against the sealed snapshot returns the same numbers every time. The discipline behind it is documented in our permit prediction ledger for June 2026.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Does this $0.9M cover all construction in ZIP 90027?
A: No. It covers residential building permits — single-family and small multi-family — only. Commercial and sub-trade permits are excluded at ingest, so the $0.9M reflects home-level building work, not every construction project in the ZIP.

Q: Why is the 90027 median of $12,500 higher than the citywide median?
A: The Los Angeles median permit valuation is $7,000, while 90027 sits at $12,500. A built-out, higher-value neighborhood tends to file fewer trivial permits and more mid-sized remodels, which lifts the typical job size above the citywide figure.

Q: Why did 90027 record only 30 permits?
A: Los Feliz is largely built out, with slow housing turnover, so permit activity is incremental. 30 residential permits over the window is a thin slate compared with busier ZIPs like 90272 at 388, reflecting renovation rather than new development.

Q: What is an Alteration & Repair permit?
A: It authorizes work on an existing home that does not add floor area — remodels, re-roofing, system upgrades, retrofits, damage repair. In 90027 it covers 24 of the permits, making it the clear leading work type for the ZIP.

Q: Who actually pulls these permits?
A: Typically the homeowner or, more often, a licensed contractor acting on the owner's behalf. The permit records the declared valuation before work begins, which is why the file is an early signal of spending rather than a record of completed jobs.

Put Permit Data to Work

A thin, renovation-heavy ZIP like 90027 is precisely the kind of micro-market where a permit feed earns its keep. Contractors can qualify the neighborhood as a remodel territory rather than a new-build one. Suppliers can time finish-material and roofing inventory to the work that is actually filed. Lenders and agents can read renovation demand and pre-listing signals parcel by parcel, before any of it shows up on the market.

The raw feed is public — you can browse the Los Angeles permits dashboard at permits.ustechautomations.com. The harder part is turning a daily flood of records into something a team acts on. We build the monitoring, lead routing, and outreach-drafting layer on top of these sealed snapshots, so a new alteration permit in 90027 can trigger a qualified, ZIP-specific workflow instead of a spreadsheet nobody reads.

The workflow is the point. Watching one ZIP by hand is feasible; watching every ZIP across a metro, every day, and reacting within hours is not — which is where automation does the work a person cannot. A permit lands, the system tags its work type and parcel, checks it against the territories a client cares about, and drafts the first outreach so a human only has to approve and send. The sealed snapshot guarantees the record was not quietly altered between collection and action, which matters when the same lead may reach several competing trades at once.

If you want to compare 90027 against the city's higher-dollar ZIPs, our sibling reports for ZIP 90069 and ZIP 90035 break down two busier slices of the same snapshot. Then see how US Tech Automations wires this signal into a working pipeline with our real-estate AI agents.

Source: US Tech Automations Research — computed from sealed daily permit snapshots, May 11 – June 9, 2026.