34 Permits, $8,000 Median: ZIP 90062 — June 2026

Two numbers define ZIP 90062 this period, and the gap between them is the whole point. The neighborhood logged 34 residential building permits over the May 11 – June 9, 2026 window, yet the median permit carried a declared valuation of just $8,000. Volume says a fair amount is happening; the median says almost none of it is large.

That tension is what a raw count alone would hide. A busy-looking permit tally can mask a market made almost entirely of small, routine jobs, and that is exactly what 90062 shows. Before any table, the plain read is this: this is a maintenance-and-repair pocket of Los Angeles, not a teardown or ground-up district, and the dollar figures confirm it more bluntly than the counts do.

Every figure here is a slice of the metro's sealed daily permit snapshots, filtered to 90062. We make no comparison to prior months; this is a cross-sectional read of one window. Scope: residential building permits (single-family and small multi-family); commercial and sub-trade permits are excluded at ingest. This is not a count of all construction permits issued in each city.

What the Numbers Say First

• ZIP 90062 recorded 34 residential building permits in the window, according to our sealed permit snapshots.

• The median permit valuation in 90062 is $8,000, per the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety via data.lacity.org (Socrata).

• Alteration & Repair leads the ZIP with 25 permits, according to the same sealed snapshot data.

• Reported valuation in 90062 totals $0.8M for the window, per the Department of Building and Safety records.

• Citywide, Los Angeles posted 4,042 residential permits, ranking #1 across the 8 metros we track.

ZIP 90062 filed 34 residential permits in the May 11 – June 9, 2026 window at an $8,000 median valuation — a small-job neighborhood by the dollars.

Read those bullets together and the page resolves into one claim: 90062 is doing a modest number of mostly small residential jobs, led by repair-and-alter work, inside a single thirty-day slice of the Los Angeles dataset. Everything below expands that, with the qualitative read doing the work the bare numbers cannot.

Why an $8,000 Median Matters More Than the Count

A median is the midpoint, not the average. When the typical permit in 90062 declares $8,000 of work, it means half the filings sit below that line — and in a residential ZIP, below $8,000 is firmly the territory of contained, single-crew jobs: a re-roof, a panel upgrade, a bathroom refresh, a repair after damage. None of those are the kind of project that drags a neighborhood's median upward.

The count and the median pull in slightly different directions, and that is the useful part. Thirty-four permits is enough activity to be worth working; an $8,000 median tells anyone selling to that activity what kind of job to expect on the other end of the phone. Citywide the median sits higher, at $7,000 against a much larger and more varied permit base, so 90062 reading even modestly is a signal that its mix skews small rather than balanced. For the full metro distribution, our Los Angeles building permit report for June 2026 lays out where the larger-ticket work concentrates.

One more distribution note before the tables. Across the metro, the lower quartile of valuations sits at $2,500 and the upper quartile at $35,000, with a single high-end filing reaching $4,000,000. That spread — most permits cheap, a thin tail very expensive — is the citywide pattern, and 90062, with its $8,000 median, lives squarely in the lower half of it.

ZIP 90062 Permit Activity, May 11 – June 9, 2026

The table pulls the headline figures for 90062 straight from the sealed snapshot. Valuation reflects what applicants declared on their filings, not an independent appraisal, and it is reported in the source's own compact form.

A building permit is a municipal authorization required before legally starting specified construction, alteration, or repair work on a property. Each of these 34 is one such authorization, recorded against an address inside 90062 — a dated public record, not a sample or estimate. The total of $0.8M is small because the jobs behind it are small, and because not every permit carries a declared dollar figure at all.

The Work Behind the 25

The dominant bucket here carries the raw source label Bldg-Alter/Repair / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling, which our pipeline surfaces under the friendlier name Alteration & Repair. With 25 of the ZIP's permits in this single category, it is not one strand of the neighborhood's activity — it is the spine of it.

So what does an Alteration & Repair permit actually authorize? In Los Angeles, this category covers work that changes or restores an existing one- or two-family home without enlarging its footprint: re-roofing, structural and foundation repair, electrical and plumbing upgrades, window and door replacement, kitchen and bath remodels, and post-damage restoration. It is the permit pulled to fix, modernize, or bring an existing dwelling up to code — not to add square footage and not to build new. When 25 of 34 filings land here, the neighborhood is plainly investing in the homes it already has.

That concentration also explains the low median. Alteration and repair jobs are, by their nature, smaller in declared value than additions or new construction, so a ZIP weighted this heavily toward them will report a modest midpoint almost by definition. The category mix and the dollar figures are telling the same story from two sides.

Citywide, the same Bldg-Alter/Repair / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling label leads at 2,486 permits, trailed by Bldg-Addition / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling at 422 and Bldg-New / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling at 359. The alteration-heavy shape of 90062 mirrors the metro's leading category but compresses harder around it, which points to an established housing stock whose owners are spending on upkeep rather than expansion.

Where 90062 Sits Among Active LA ZIPs

A single ZIP's count only carries meaning beside its neighbors. The table places 90062 against the most active residential ZIPs in the Los Angeles snapshot, plus the citywide headline row. Valuation is shown in the source's compact form; the citywide row uses the metro aggregate.

Against the metro's busiest ZIPs, 90062 holds 34 permits and $0.8M in reported valuation — low frequency and low ticket together.

Two readings stand out. First, 90062 is not a volume leader: the snapshot's busiest residential ZIP, 90272, logged 388 permits, an order away from 90062's 34. Second, the ZIP's $0.8M reported valuation is small even for its count, which is the fingerprint of a neighborhood doing many ordinary repairs rather than a few large projects — exactly what the $8,000 median already implied.

For a sense of how nearby South LA neighborhoods read against this one, our first sibling ZIP report and second sibling ZIP report cover adjacent slices of the same sealed snapshot.

Methodology

Source: Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety via data.lacity.org (Socrata). All figures for this post are a ZIP-level cut of the same sealed daily permit snapshots we publish for the full metro — the 90062 numbers are filtered from the Los Angeles dataset, not collected separately.

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

Citywide, valuation is present on 3,779 of the metro's permits, a coverage rate of 93.5%; the ZIP-level slice inherits whatever subset of those records falls inside 90062. A filing with no declared valuation still counts toward the permit total but adds nothing to the dollar figures, which is why a count and a valuation should never be read as the same measurement.

The pipeline runs in a fixed sequence:

1. Collect. We pull new permit records from the Socrata endpoint each day across the metro.

2. Normalize. Records are cleaned into a common schema, with category labels preserved exactly as the source publishes them.

3. Seal. Each daily snapshot is content-hashed and stored append-only, so the underlying data cannot be quietly revised after the fact.

4. Slice and aggregate. We filter the sealed window to ZIP 90062 and roll the records up over the 30-day window into the counts and valuation figures shown above.

That discipline is what lets us stand behind a count of exactly 34: the record set behind it is fixed and reproducible, and our metro totals can be checked against the public source at any time.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Does the count of 34 cover every construction project in 90062?
A: No. It covers residential building permits — single-family and small multi-family — only. Commercial and sub-trade permits are excluded at ingest, so 34 is the residential slice for the window, not every permit issued in the ZIP.

Q: Why is the median valuation in 90062 only $8,000?
A: Because most filings are small alteration and repair jobs rather than large additions or new builds. A low median means the typical project is modest in declared value; the metro lower quartile sits even lower, at $2,500.

Q: What does the Alteration and Repair category actually include?
A: Work that modifies or restores an existing one- or two-family home without adding footprint — re-roofing, structural and foundation repair, electrical and plumbing upgrades, window replacement, and interior remodels. In 90062 it accounts for 25 of the permits.

Q: Who pulls these permits?
A: Property owners and the licensed contractors they hire. For repair and remodel work the contractor usually files on the owner's behalf, which makes permit records a dependable read on where active home-improvement spending is happening.

Q: How does 90062 rank against other Los Angeles ZIPs?
A: Below the busiest. The most active residential ZIP in the snapshot, 90272, logged 388 permits, while 90062 logged 34. The neighborhood shows steady small-job activity rather than top-tier volume.

Put Permit Data to Work

A sealed permit snapshot is a hashed, point-in-time copy of public permit records, stored before analysis so the numbers behind a claim can always be re-checked. For anyone working a neighborhood like 90062, that record is raw material. Contractors use it to confirm where repair demand concentrates; suppliers time inventory to the job types that dominate the mix; agents read alteration filings as pre-listing signals; and lenders gauge renovation demand from the same feed.

Our pipeline turns those signals into automated workflows — monitoring fresh filings as they post, routing the relevant ones to the right person, and drafting first-touch outreach so a team can act on a live permit. The same daily snapshots behind this report power the full Los Angeles permit report, and the discipline behind them is documented in our permit prediction ledger, where sealed predictions are scored against public outcomes. The underlying metro data lives at permits.ustechautomations.com.

If your team works a ZIP like 90062, we can wire that permit feed into your own intake and follow-up. See how US Tech Automations builds permit-driven automations for real estate teams.

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