49 Permits in 91304: Los Angeles ZIP Report — June 2026

Out in the far northwest corner of the San Fernando Valley, the 91304 ZIP — Canoga Park and West Hills — posted 49 permits across the reporting window of May 11 – June 9, 2026. That is a quiet, homeowner-paced number, and the kind of figure a contractor working the area would recognize instantly: steady remodel work, not a building boom.

Every figure on this page is a slice of the Los Angeles metro's sealed daily snapshot — we filter the citywide record down to this one ZIP rather than running a separate scrape. The scope is residential only: single-family and small multi-family permits. Commercial and sub-trade permits are excluded at ingest, so this is not a count of all construction permits issued in the city. The numbers below describe who is renovating and rebuilding in 91304 right now.

Reading 91304 Against the Rest of Los Angeles

Volume tells you almost nothing until you set it beside its neighbors. So before the detail tables, here is 91304 lined up against the busiest residential ZIPs in the metro — the comparison this whole report hangs on.

In 91304, 49 permits carried a combined declared valuation of $0.7M over the 30-day window — a low-ticket, high-frequency renovation profile.

The gap between 91304 and a ZIP like 90272 is the story. The Palisades ZIP recorded 388 permits worth $66.2M; 91304's 49 permits total $0.7M. That is not just fewer jobs — it is a fundamentally cheaper kind of job. Where the coastal ZIPs carry teardown-and-rebuild dollars, 91304 reads as a maintenance-and-improvement market: kitchens, additions, code-driven repairs on existing homes that already exist and are staying.

This matters for anyone deciding where to spend attention. A supplier or contractor chasing the biggest valuation pools would skip 91304 entirely. One who wants volume of repeatable, smaller residential jobs — exactly the work that fills a calendar — would read 49 permits at a $5,900 median very differently.

Key Findings

• 49 permits were recorded in ZIP 91304 over the window, according to US Tech Automations' sealed permit snapshots.

• The ZIP's declared valuation totaled $0.7M, per Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety via data.lacity.org (Socrata).

• The median permit valuation in 91304 was $5,900 — a small-job signature.

• The dominant work type was Bldg-Alter/Repair / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling, with 40 of the ZIP's permits.

• Citywide, Los Angeles logged 4,042 permits worth $201.2M in the same window, the snapshot from which this ZIP is drawn.

ZIP 91304 Permit Activity, May 11 – June 9, 2026

The headline figures for this ZIP are deliberately spare — three numbers that, read together, describe the local market more honestly than any single total.

A $5,900 median sitting under a $0.7M total is the classic shape of a steady-state residential ZIP. Most permits are modest — re-roofs, panel upgrades, bathroom and kitchen alterations — and the total is the sum of many such jobs rather than a handful of large ones. There is no mega-project pulling the average up here, which is itself useful intelligence: demand in 91304 is broad and shallow, not concentrated.

The median permit in 91304 was valued at $5,900 — the kind of figure that says "improving the home I already own," not "building a new one."

What Is Getting Built in 91304

The single largest category in 91304 is Bldg-Alter/Repair / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling, which our pipeline labels as Alteration & Repair, accounting for 40 of the ZIP's permits. That one label carries most of the activity, and understanding what it covers is the whole point of reading permit data instead of just counting it.

An "Alteration & Repair" permit on a one- or two-family dwelling is the workhorse of residential construction. In Los Angeles, it is pulled for work that changes or restores an existing structure without adding a new one: re-roofing, reframing after damage, kitchen and bathroom remodels, electrical and plumbing upgrades, foundation repairs, window and door replacements, and the soft-story and seismic retrofits the city has pushed across older Valley housing stock. The job already has a house; the permit lets a licensed contractor touch its bones legally.

That 40-permit concentration tells contractors and suppliers something concrete. This is renovation territory. The homeowners pulling these permits are not relocating — they are reinvesting. For a roofer, a remodeler, or an electrical sub, a ZIP dominated by alteration-and-repair work is a recurring-revenue neighborhood: the same streets generate the same kind of mid-sized job year after year, and a crew that builds a reputation on one block tends to win the next.

It also tells you what 91304 is not doing. With alteration and repair carrying the bulk of the work, the ZIP is not seeing a wave of ground-up new homes or large additions reshaping the streetscape. Canoga Park and West Hills are largely built out; the housing stock exists and is being maintained, upgraded, and occasionally retrofitted to current code rather than replaced. For a trade deciding whether to invest in a local presence, that stability is the asset — predictable, repeatable demand beats a one-time spike.

Suppliers read this differently than contractors. A building-materials distributor sees 40 alteration-and-repair permits and forecasts demand for shingles, lumber, drywall, fixtures, and panels — the consumables of remodeling, not the structural steel of new construction. A lender sees renovation appetite among existing owners, which is a different credit story than new-purchase demand. The same 40-permit fact answers a different question for each reader, which is exactly why the raw, sealed count is more valuable than a pre-baked interpretation.

For the citywide context behind this ZIP, our Los Angeles permit report breaks down the full 4,042-permit metro picture and how alteration-and-repair work dominates there too.

How 91304 Compares in Los Angeles

Placing 91304 inside its own metro sharpens the read. Below, the ZIP sits between a sample of its busier neighbors and the Los Angeles headline row — the same sealed snapshot, cut three ways.

Against the metro's 4,042 permits and $201.2M, the 49 permits in 91304 are a rounding error on volume — but that is the wrong way to read a ZIP. Los Angeles is enormous; no single residential ZIP carries a large share. What matters is the texture: 91304's $0.7M total against the citywide $201.2M confirms a low-valuation, high-frequency profile that the metro median of $7,000 also reflects. The city as a whole, like this ZIP, runs on small residential jobs.

The metro's quartile spread makes the same point. Across Los Angeles, the lower quartile of permit valuations sits at $2,500 and the upper quartile at $35,000, while the most expensive single permit reached $4,000,000. That is an enormous spread — a few very large projects sitting atop a deep base of small ones. ZIP 91304, with its $5,900 median, lives squarely in that base. For neighborhood-level comparisons, see our sibling reports on a nearby Northridge-area ZIP and another Valley ZIP, both cut from the same snapshot.

Methodology

The source for every figure here is the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety via data.lacity.org (Socrata). The honesty statement governs the whole report: all figures are computed directly from US Tech Automations' sealed daily permit snapshots; nothing is estimated, modeled, or extrapolated.

A sealed snapshot is a content-addressed, hash-locked copy of the day's public permit records — frozen so the number you read today is the exact number we computed, verifiable against the snapshot hash. ZIP-level figures like 91304's are not a separate dataset; they are a filtered cut of the same metro snapshot, sliced down to one ZIP. That slice framing is why a ZIP page and the metro report always reconcile.

This edition is cross-sectional: it describes one 30-day window and makes no claim about trends, growth, or change over time. The discipline behind it is mechanical:

1. Collect. We pull residential permit records daily from the Socrata feed, filtering to single-family and small multi-family at ingest.

2. Normalize. Each record is mapped to a common schema — jurisdiction, ZIP, category, declared valuation — so figures line up across all metros we track.

3. Seal. The day's normalized records are content-hashed and stored append-only, producing the snapshot referenced in this post's frontmatter.

4. Aggregate. Over the reporting window, sealed daily snapshots are summed and sliced to the ZIP level for the tables above.

That same sealing discipline drives our permit prediction ledger, where sealed snapshots are later scored against public outcomes.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Does 91304's 49 permits cover all construction in the ZIP?
A: No. The 49 permits count residential building permits only — single-family and small multi-family. Commercial and sub-trade permits are excluded at ingest, so this is not a count of all construction permits issued in the ZIP.

Q: Why is the median permit valuation only $5,900?
A: Because most permits in 91304 are alteration-and-repair jobs — re-roofs, remodels, code upgrades — not new builds. A $5,900 median means many small improvement jobs rather than a few large projects, the typical signature of an established residential neighborhood.

Q: What does the top category actually cover?
A: The leading type is Bldg-Alter/Repair / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling at 40 permits. It covers work that modifies or restores an existing one- or two-family home — remodels, repairs, retrofits, and system upgrades — rather than new construction.

Q: How does 91304 compare to the rest of Los Angeles?
A: It is a small, low-valuation slice. The metro logged 4,042 permits worth $201.2M in the same window; 91304's 49 permits total $0.7M, fitting the city's broad base of modest residential jobs.

Q: Who pulls these permits?
A: Homeowners and the licensed contractors they hire — roofers, remodelers, and electrical or plumbing subs. The 40 alteration-and-repair permits point to owners reinvesting in homes they intend to keep.

Put Permit Data to Work

A sealed ZIP-level permit feed is operational intelligence for several roles at once. A contractor uses 49 permits and a 40-permit alteration-and-repair concentration to qualify 91304 as a remodel-rich neighborhood worth canvassing. A building-materials supplier reads the same mix to time inventory toward renovation consumables. A lender reads the $5,900 median as renovation demand among existing owners. An agent reads steady alteration activity as a pre-listing signal — homes being improved before they hit the market.

The raw snapshot is public; the leverage is in turning it into a workflow. We build automations that monitor permit feeds the moment a sealed snapshot updates, route new permits to the right person by ZIP and category, and draft outreach grounded in the actual job on file. You can browse the live permit corpus directly at permits.ustechautomations.com, and if you want that signal wired into routing and follow-up for your own market, our real-estate AI agents turn permit data into automated lead workflows.

The point is not the 49 permits themselves — it is acting on them faster than anyone working the same streets by hand.

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