94 Permits in 90066: Los Angeles ZIP Report — June 2026

ZIP 90066 — Mar Vista, on the westside of Los Angeles — recorded 94 residential building permits in the May 11 – June 9, 2026 reporting window. Every figure in this report is a ZIP-level slice of the same sealed citywide snapshot behind our Los Angeles metro permit report; nothing here was collected separately or re-estimated.

Scope matters: this covers 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 follows is a cross-sectional read of a single 30-day window — who is permitting work in Mar Vista, what kind of work it is, and how the ZIP stacks up against the rest of the city.

Key Findings

• ZIP 90066 recorded 94 residential building permits in the window, according to US Tech Automations' sealed permit snapshots.

• Declared valuation across those filings totaled $4.2M, per the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety via data.lacity.org (Socrata).

• The median declared job in 90066 was $5,000 — below the citywide median of $7,000, per the same LADBS records.

• Bldg-Alter/Repair / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling supplied 55 permits, the ZIP's top category, per sealed LADBS snapshots.

• Citywide, Los Angeles logged 4,042 permits worth $201.2M in the same window, per the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety via data.lacity.org (Socrata).

How 90066 Compares in Los Angeles

Because this is a comparison-first report, here is the table that frames everything else: ZIP 90066 against the city's other busiest residential ZIP codes for the same window, with the citywide headline as the bottom row.

The table splits into a clear outlier and a tight pack. Pacific Palisades' 90272 towers over every other ZIP on both axes — 388 permits and $66.2M in declared work — a concentration of large-dollar filings that looks nothing like routine neighborhood maintenance. Below it, the gap narrows fast: from Brentwood's 130 down to Westchester's 64, the remaining ZIPs are bunched together.

Pacific Palisades (90272) leads the city with 388 permits and $66.2M in declared valuation; Mar Vista's 90066 sits mid-table with 94 permits and $4.2M.

Within that pack, 90066 holds its own. It edges past Valley heavyweights like Reseda (83) and Studio City (72) on volume, and its $4.2M in declared valuation lands close to neighbors of similar housing character. The more telling contrast is with Brentwood's 90049: Brentwood files more permits (130) but declares only $4.9M — a profile, like Mar Vista's, dominated by upkeep and improvement rather than ground-up construction.

What does mid-table mean in practice? Mar Vista is busy enough to sustain a steady book of residential work — permits filed nearly every business day of the window — but it is not a redevelopment hotspot. For anyone deciding where to spend marketing dollars or position crews on the westside, that distinction between "steady remodel demand" and "construction surge" is exactly what this table makes visible.

ZIP 90066 Permit Activity, May 11 – June 9, 2026

The shape of the distribution tells the real story. A $5,000 median against a $4.2M total means the typical filing in 90066 is a modest job — the kind of permit a homeowner or small contractor pulls for a discrete repair or a single-room upgrade — while a smaller number of larger projects carry most of the dollars.

That pattern is consistent with the citywide picture, just skewed smaller. Across all of Los Angeles, the median declared job is $7,000, the lower quartile of declared values sits at $2,500, and the upper quartile at $35,000 — and the single largest filing in the window declared $4,000,000. Mar Vista's $5,000 median puts its typical permit below the citywide midpoint: a neighborhood where the volume comes from many small filings rather than a few headline projects.

For contractors, the implication is concrete. This is not a market won with one big bid; it is won with throughput — being the company that reliably handles the steady stream of small and mid-size residential jobs that postwar westside housing stock generates.

What Is Getting Built in 90066

The top category answers the question directly. The most common permit label in 90066 this window is Bldg-Alter/Repair / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling — LADBS's classification for alteration and repair work on existing single-family homes and duplexes.

55 of the 94 residential permits issued in 90066 this window carry the label Bldg-Alter/Repair / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling — remodel-and-repair work on existing houses.

What does an Alteration & Repair permit actually cover in Los Angeles? Broadly: interior remodels (kitchens, bathrooms), structural repairs, window and door change-outs that alter openings, foundation work, drywall and stucco repair after damage, and reconfigurations that don't add floor area. It is the workhorse permit of an established neighborhood — pulled when an owner upgrades a house rather than replaces it. We break the category down citywide in our Los Angeles alteration and repair report.

Who pulls these permits, and how? In Los Angeles, smaller alteration jobs can often be permitted over the counter or through the city's online e-permit system — a licensed contractor or an owner-builder declares the scope and valuation, pays the fee, and schedules inspections. Larger alterations that touch structure or change layouts go through plan check, where drawings are reviewed before the permit issues. The declared valuation on each filing is the applicant's own estimate of the work's cost, which is exactly why the median is a more honest signal of typical job size than the total.

That fits Mar Vista's housing fabric. The ZIP is a grid of postwar bungalows and ranch houses, largely built out, with little vacant land. Owners here renovate in place — which is why alteration and repair dominates, and why the median ticket stays small. When these houses change hands, the new owners tend to remodel rather than rebuild, so the permit stream doubles as a quiet ledger of neighborhood turnover and reinvestment.

The citywide category mix shows the same hierarchy at metro scale:

Alteration and repair leads everywhere in Los Angeles, but the supporting categories — additions and new single-family construction — are comparatively thin in 90066's profile, where the top category alone accounts for the majority of filings. Read together: Mar Vista is an improvement market. Remodelers, kitchen-and-bath specialists, foundation contractors, and the suppliers who serve them are the natural audience for this ZIP's permit stream; ground-up builders will find more action elsewhere in the table above.

Methodology

Source: 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.

Every number on this page is a ZIP-level cut of the same sealed citywide snapshot used in the metro report — the 90066 rows are filtered, not re-collected. Scope, verbatim: 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.

Valuation coverage is high but not total: citywide, 3,779 of 4,042 permits carried a declared valuation — 93.5% coverage. Totals and medians are computed over the permits that declare a value. This edition spans 8 metros, 7,334 residential permits, and $688.3M in declared valuation over the same window, at 84% valuation coverage overall.

How the pipeline works:

1. Collect. Pull permit filings daily from data.lacity.org (Socrata), the public LADBS feed.

2. Normalize. Map raw fields to a common schema and apply the residential scope filter at ingest.

3. Seal. Hash each daily snapshot and store it content-addressed, so published figures cannot be quietly revised later. The same discipline backs our permit prediction ledger.

4. Aggregate. Sum the sealed daily rows across May 11 – June 9, 2026 and slice by ZIP code.

This edition is cross-sectional: a single sealed window, with no claims about how 90066 compares to past months.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How many building permits were issued in ZIP 90066 in this window?
A: 94 residential building permits between May 11 – June 9, 2026, with $4.2M in total declared valuation, according to sealed snapshots of Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety filings published via data.lacity.org.

Q: Is this every construction permit in Mar Vista?
A: No. The count covers residential building permits for single-family and small multi-family properties; commercial and sub-trade permits (electrical, plumbing, mechanical pulled separately) are excluded at ingest. The true total of all permit activity in 90066 is higher than the figure reported here.

Q: Why is the median permit value in 90066 only $5,000?
A: Because most filings are small alteration and repair jobs on existing houses. The citywide median is $7,000, with the middle of the distribution running from $2,500 at the lower quartile to $35,000 at the upper — Mar Vista's typical job sits below that citywide midpoint, consistent with a built-out neighborhood renovating in place.

Q: What is the most common type of permit in 90066?
A: Bldg-Alter/Repair / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling, with 55 of the ZIP's 94 permits. In Los Angeles that label covers interior remodels, structural repairs, window and door change-outs, and similar work on existing homes — not new construction or additions.

Q: How does 90066 compare with other westside ZIP codes?
A: Pacific Palisades (90272) is the citywide outlier at 388 permits and $66.2M declared. Brentwood (90049) filed 130 permits worth $4.9M, and Westchester (90045) filed 64 worth $2.4M. Mar Vista's 94 permits and $4.2M put it in the middle of the city's busiest residential ZIPs.

Q: Can I verify these numbers myself?
A: Yes. The underlying filings are public records on data.lacity.org. Our snapshots of that feed are sealed daily — hashed and content-addressed — so the figures in this report can be checked against both the source and the sealed record.

Put Permit Data to Work

A ZIP-level permit read like this is a working document, not trivia. Remodel contractors use it to confirm a neighborhood has the steady small-job volume worth canvassing before committing a crew or a mail drop. Building-material suppliers use category mix to time inventory toward repair-and-alteration demand instead of stocking for new construction that isn't happening. Real-estate agents read permit filings as pre-listing signals — owners investing in a property are making decisions about it. Lenders use the same stream as a ground-truth gauge of renovation activity when underwriting home-improvement products in a given area.

The hard part is not the data; it is the routine. US Tech Automations turns sealed permit signals into automated workflows: monitoring new filings in target ZIP codes, routing them as leads to the right crew or rep, and drafting the first outreach touch automatically. The underlying feed is browsable at permits.ustechautomations.com, and if you want this wired into your own pipeline, contact us and we'll walk through what a permit-driven workflow looks like for your trade.

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