388 Permits in 90272: Los Angeles ZIP Report — June 2026

ZIP 90272 — Pacific Palisades — recorded 388 residential building permits in the May 11 – June 9, 2026 reporting window, the largest ZIP-level count anywhere in the sealed Los Angeles snapshot. The next-busiest ZIP on the list, 90049 in Brentwood, logged 130.

The context is hard to miss. The Palisades is still rebuilding after the January 2025 fire, and its permit ledger reads like a neighborhood under reconstruction: heavy filing volume, $66.2M in reported valuation, and a median permit value above the metro's. Every figure on this page is a ZIP-level slice of the same sealed snapshot behind our Los Angeles building permit report.

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.

Key Findings

• ZIP 90272 recorded 388 residential building permits in 30 days, according to US Tech Automations' sealed permit snapshots.

• Reported valuation in 90272 totals $66.2M for the window, per the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety via data.lacity.org (Socrata).

• The median 90272 permit is valued at $10,000, against a $7,000 metro median, per the same sealed snapshot slice.

• Alteration and repair work leads the ZIP with 102 permits, per the Department of Building and Safety records.

• No other tracked ZIP tops 130 permits; 90272 filed 388, according to the sealed snapshot slice.

ZIP 90272 Permit Activity, May 11 – June 9, 2026

The headline number deserves a moment of context. Across the entire Los Angeles snapshot, 4,042 residential permits were issued in the window. A single coastal ZIP — one neighborhood, effectively — accounts for 388 of them. The reported valuation tells the same story in dollars: $66.2M filed in 90272, against $201.2M metro-wide.

ZIP 90272 accounts for 388 of the 4,042 residential permits in the Los Angeles snapshot, and $66.2M of the metro's $201.2M in reported valuation.

The distribution matters as much as the totals. The metro's median permit is $7,000, and the middle half of all Los Angeles filings falls between $2,500 and $35,000. In 90272 the median is $10,000 — the typical job here is meaningfully larger than the typical job metro-wide, and it sits alongside a tail of far bigger projects. The largest single permit in the metro window is valued at $4,000,000, a reminder of how long that tail can run.

Read together, the table describes a neighborhood doing two kinds of work at once: a broad base of modest repair and alteration jobs, and a smaller set of substantial projects that carry most of the dollars. That is the pattern you would expect in a high-value area working through large-scale reconstruction — many permits to fix, restore, and upgrade, with major filings pushing the valuation total far above what the median alone would suggest.

One honest limitation: this series is young, so there is no prior sealed window to compare against. We cannot say whether 388 is rising or falling — only that it is what the May 11 – June 9, 2026 snapshot contains. Trend claims will come when the series has history to support them.

What Is Getting Built in 90272

The single largest block of activity is alteration and repair work on houses. In Department of Building and Safety terms, these filings carry the use code "Bldg-Alter/Repair / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling," and 102 of the ZIP's 388 permits fall under it.

An alteration and repair permit in Los Angeles covers work that changes or restores an existing dwelling without creating new floor area: interior remodels, structural repairs, fire and water damage restoration, foundation work, window and door replacements that alter openings, and similar scopes. Kitchen and bath remodels that move walls or plumbing typically land here, as do seismic retrofits and the structural side of re-roofing. It is the workhorse permit of residential construction — the one a general contractor pulls most often.

In a fire-affected ZIP, the category does extra duty. Restoration of standing homes that took smoke, heat, or water damage is filed as alteration and repair, while full rebuilds of lost structures run through the new-dwelling pathway instead. The top-category figure means repair work forms the largest single block of 90272's ledger; the rest of the ZIP's filings sit in the other residential categories the snapshot tracks. For a closer look at this permit type across the whole metro, see our Los Angeles alteration and repair report.

Permitting in this particular ZIP also carries friction that most of Los Angeles does not. Much of Pacific Palisades sits in hillside and coastal zones, where geotechnical review, grading considerations, and additional plan-check steps are common before a building permit issues. A permit appearing in this window often represents months of upstream design and review work — which is part of why permit data is such a useful early signal for everyone downstream of the homeowner.

For context, here is how the leading residential categories rank across the metro as a whole:

The metro mix is repair-heavy everywhere: 2,486 alteration and repair permits dwarf the 422 additions and 359 new single-family dwellings recorded across Los Angeles. What sets 90272 apart is not the kind of work being filed but the concentration of it in one place — and the dollars attached to it.

How 90272 Compares in Los Angeles

The snapshot's top-ZIP list makes that concentration vivid. Here is 90272 against the other busiest ZIP codes in the Los Angeles window, with the metro headline row for scale:

90272 filed 388 permits worth $66.2M in the window; the next-busiest ZIP, 90049, filed 130 permits worth $4.9M.

The gap between first and second place is the story of this table. Brentwood's 90049 is itself a busy, affluent Westside ZIP — and 90272 still filed far more permits, with a reported valuation larger than every other listed ZIP combined. Dollar concentration of that order in one neighborhood is rare, and it changes how every reader of this data should treat the Palisades: not as one territory among many, but as its own market for the duration of the rebuild.

The rest of the list tells a quieter story about ordinary Los Angeles. Valley ZIPs like Granada Hills' 91344 and Reseda's 91335 post steady permit counts with valuations clustered in the low millions — the everyday churn of remodels, repairs, and upgrades that makes up most residential construction in any month. Atwater Village's 90039 stands out for dollars relative to volume: 67 permits but $6.0M in reported valuation, the same compact figure as Woodland Hills' 91367 at 90 permits.

For trades and suppliers, the two stories suggest different plays. The Palisades is a surge market — high volume, high stakes, intense competition for capacity. The Valley ZIPs are base-load markets, where consistent smaller jobs reward whoever shows up reliably. The same dataset prices both.

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.

Everything on this page is a ZIP-level cut of the same sealed Los Angeles snapshot used in the metro report — the 90272 rows are filtered, not re-collected. Metro-wide, 3,779 of the window's 4,042 permits carry a reported valuation, a 93.5% coverage rate, so dollar figures should be read as floors rather than ceilings. This edition spans 8 metros, 7,334 permits, and $688.3M in reported valuation over a 30-day window, with 84% valuation coverage across the full panel.

How the pipeline works:

1. Collect. Each day, new residential permit records for Los Angeles are pulled from the city's open-data feed on data.lacity.org.

2. Normalize. Raw records are mapped to a common schema — category labels, ZIP codes, and declared valuations are standardized across jurisdictions.

3. Seal. Each day's snapshot is hashed and stored before any analysis runs, so sealed records cannot be quietly revised after the fact. The same discipline backs our permit prediction ledger.

4. Aggregate. Window statistics for May 11 – June 9, 2026 are computed over the sealed records, then sliced by ZIP to produce reports like this one.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How many building permits were issued in ZIP 90272 in this window?
A: 388 residential building permits between May 11 – June 9, 2026, according to sealed daily snapshots of Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety records. The count covers single-family and small multi-family building permits only — commercial and sub-trade permits are excluded at ingest.

Q: Why is 90272's permit count so much higher than other Los Angeles ZIPs?
A: The snapshot is cross-sectional and does not establish causes, but the context is plain: 90272 is Pacific Palisades, where reconstruction after the January 2025 fire is ongoing. The ledger shows 388 permits and $66.2M in reported valuation, against 130 permits in the next-busiest ZIP, 90049. Alteration and repair filings — the permit type damage restoration typically requires — lead the ZIP with 102.

Q: Is 388 a count of all construction activity in Pacific Palisades?
A: No. The figure covers residential building permits (single-family and small multi-family); commercial and sub-trade permits are excluded at ingest. Electrical, plumbing, and mechanical permits filed separately are not in this count, so total construction activity in the ZIP is higher than any number on this page.

Q: What is the typical permit in 90272 worth?
A: The median reported valuation in 90272 is $10,000, above the metro median of $7,000. Across Los Angeles as a whole, the middle half of permits falls between $2,500 and $35,000, so the typical Palisades job sits in the upper part of the metro's normal range — while the ZIP's $66.2M total points to a heavy tail of much larger projects.

Q: Who actually pulls these permits?
A: Mostly licensed general contractors, along with owner-builders and design-build firms. The leading category — alteration and repair, with 102 permits — is classic general-contractor territory: remodels, structural repairs, and restoration work on existing homes. Larger rebuild projects typically add architects and engineers of record alongside the contractor, especially in hillside and coastal review zones.

Put Permit Data to Work

A ZIP filing 388 residential permits in 30 days is a working list of active projects, each with an address, a declared scope, and a valuation. Contractors use that list to qualify neighborhoods before committing crews. Building-material suppliers read it as near-term demand for framing, roofing, and finish goods. Lenders see renovation appetite in the valuations; agents see pre-listing signals in homes being repaired and upgraded ahead of a sale.

The practical problem is timeliness. A permit list is most valuable in the days after filing, when the project is staffing up and decisions are still open — and least valuable months later, when every competitor has seen the same record. Watching a feed daily, filtering it to the right ZIPs and categories, and acting on matches is exactly the kind of repetitive, deadline-sensitive work that should not be done by hand.

US Tech Automations turns these signals into automated workflows: monitoring new filings in target ZIPs as they appear, routing leads that match a trade or territory, and drafting outreach grounded in the underlying permit record rather than a generic template. The live data behind this report is available at permits.ustechautomations.com, and if you want permit signals from 90272 — or any tracked ZIP — wired into your own pipeline, contact us.

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