58 Permits, $6,901 Median: ZIP 91306 — June 2026

Two numbers carry this report, and the gap between them is the whole point. ZIP 91306 in Los Angeles, CA recorded 58 residential building permits during the May 11 – June 9, 2026 reporting window, yet the typical permit was valued at just $6,901. Plenty of filings, small dollar figures behind most of them. That tension — steady volume riding on modest, contained jobs — is what this neighborhood read is built to explain.

This is a ZIP-level slice of the Los Angeles metro's sealed daily permit snapshots, narrowed to 91306. The scope is 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. Because the series is new, this is a cross-sectional read of a single window, with no trend or growth claims of any kind.

Reading The Gap Between Count And Size

Take the angle first, before any table. A building permit is the formal sign-off a homeowner or contractor must obtain before legally altering, adding to, or constructing a dwelling. In 91306, the count of those sign-offs is respectable for a residential pocket, but the median dollar value attached to each one is small. When a market produces real volume at a low median, it is telling you the work is broad and shallow: many households doing modest projects at once, rather than a few owners pouring money into large builds.

That distribution shape matters more than either number alone. A $6,901 median against 58 permits describes a neighborhood of contained, repeatable jobs — repairs, small remodels, system swaps — spread across many addresses. It is the opposite of a development corridor, where a handful of permits would carry most of the valuation. For anyone selling to or serving this ZIP, the practical read is breadth over size: lots of doors, each with a small ticket.

ZIP 91306 recorded 58 residential permits during the window at a median permit valuation of $6,901 — broad volume, small jobs.

Key Findings

• ZIP 91306 recorded 58 residential building permits in the window, per the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety via data.lacity.org (Socrata).

• The median permit valuation in 91306 is $6,901, according to the sealed snapshot data.

• Total reported valuation for the ZIP reached $1.7M, according to the sealed snapshot data.

• Alteration & Repair led local filings with 44 permits, per the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety via data.lacity.org (Socrata).

• 91306 sits inside a Los Angeles metro that recorded 4,042 residential permits worth $201.2M, per the same Department of Building and Safety records.

In one line: 91306 is a high-frequency, low-ticket renovation market, where the dominant work is owners improving homes they already hold, all inside a metro that ranks #1 for residential permit volume in this edition.

ZIP 91306 Permit Activity, May 11 – June 9, 2026

The headline figures sit close together, and that closeness is the signal. A count of 58 paired with a $6,901 median says the local market is built from small, similar jobs rather than a few outliers.

Hold the $6,901 median against the $1.7M total. A low median sitting under a modest total is the fingerprint of a market dominated by small projects with little large-build activity to pull the typical figure upward. Compare that to the metro's own spread, which the methodology section lays out: 91306's median lands near the bottom of the metro range, confirming that this ZIP runs leaner per job than the city as a whole. The work is here; the big dollars largely are not.

What Is Getting Built In 91306

The leading permit type carries the raw source label Bldg-Alter/Repair / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling, which our research maps to the friendly name Alteration & Repair. The "1 or 2 Family Dwelling" qualifier confines the category to single-family homes and small duplexes — the residential backbone of this West Valley ZIP. A filing under this label is, by definition, money going into a structure that already stands, which is why it reads so differently from new-construction volume.

So what actually puts 44 of these filings on the books? An Alteration & Repair permit is pulled whenever an owner changes a home they already have. The usual drivers:

1. Interior remodels. Reworking a kitchen, opening a wall, or converting a space alters the structure enough to require sign-off.

2. System reworks. Re-piping, electrical panel upgrades, and HVAC changes that touch the building envelope or load math need a permit.

3. Repair and reinforcement. Foundation work, seismic retrofits, and damage repair are filed here rather than as new construction.

4. Code-driven upgrades. Bringing older wiring or plumbing to current code during a remodel triggers the same paperwork.

For the trades, a count like 44 is not a statistic — it is a map of homes mid-project. A plumber, electrician, or general contractor reading Alteration & Repair as the runaway category in 91306 is reading a list of owners already committed to spending, however modestly. That signal points to resident homeowners, not developers, which shapes how you pitch and who you call. Our Los Angeles building permit report shows the same category leading citywide, so 91306 tracks the wider market rather than breaking from it.

In 91306, Alteration & Repair accounted for 44 permits — improvements to existing one- and two-family homes, not ground-up builds.

Placing 91306 Among Active Los Angeles ZIPs

A single ZIP's figures sharpen when set beside their neighbors. The table below ranks 91306 against other active Los Angeles ZIP codes in this edition, with the metro headline row for scale. Volume here lands on the lower side of the active set, which fits a residential neighborhood without a major project corridor driving its numbers.

The cleanest contrast is with 90272, which logged 388 permits against $66.2M — a market with both high volume and high per-permit value. 91306 runs lean on both. Neither profile is superior; they describe different neighborhoods. The high-valuation ZIPs host larger, costlier projects, while 91306 reads as steady residential upkeep and improvement across many small jobs.

Look further down and a band forms. Several Valley ZIPs sit near 91306 — 91364 at 79 permits, 91604 at 72, 90042 at 71 — each a residential pocket of mostly contained work rather than a development hotspot. 91306's 58 permits place it just under that cluster, and its $1.7M total keeps it firmly in small-ticket territory.

For a business working the West Valley, that gap is the difference between chasing a few large jobs in a 90272-style market and serving a deep, repeatable base of modest renovations across ZIPs like this one. To see the same methodology resolve neighboring slices, our sibling reports on ZIP 91311 and a nearby Valley ZIP cut adjacent areas from the identical sealed snapshot.

How We Built This Slice

This ZIP report is a filtered view of the Los Angeles metro's sealed daily permit snapshots, sourced from the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety via data.lacity.org (Socrata). Nothing here is bespoke to 91306 beyond the geographic filter — the same metro capture that produced the citywide totals produced these ZIP figures.

The honesty statement governs every number above: All figures are computed directly from US Tech Automations' sealed daily permit snapshots; nothing is estimated, modeled, or extrapolated. Where a figure is absent from the underlying snapshot, it does not appear here.

How the pipeline runs, in order:

1. Collect. Each day, our pipeline pulls fresh permit records from the Los Angeles open-data portal and stores the raw capture untouched.

2. Normalize. Records are cleaned into consistent fields — category, valuation, location — without altering the source values.

3. Seal daily. The day's snapshot is content-hashed and stored append-only, so the data behind any report can be checked later against snapshot 1629d2cb47abd1b0.

4. Aggregate. Over the May 11 – June 9, 2026 window, the sealed daily snapshots are summed and then filtered to ZIP 91306 for this report.

The table below frames 91306 inside the wider capture — its parent metro and the full edition — so the slice has context. The Los Angeles per-permit spread runs from a lower-quartile valuation of $2,500 to an upper-quartile valuation of $35,000, with a single high of $4,000,000. 91306's $6,901 median sits in the lower half of that band, exactly where its small-job profile would predict.

Of the metro's 4,042 permits, 3,779 carried a valuation figure, which is what the 93.5% coverage rate reflects. At the edition level, the snapshots captured 7,334 permits worth $688.3M across 8 jurisdictions. 91306 is one small, verifiable cut of that larger sealed record.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Is this every construction permit pulled in 91306?
A: No. The dataset covers residential building permits — single-family and small multi-family. Commercial and sub-trade permits are excluded at ingest. The 58 permits here represent residential filings in the window, not all construction activity in the ZIP.

Q: Why is the median valuation only $6,901?
A: Because most filings are small renovations, not new builds. With Alteration & Repair leading at 44 permits, the typical job is a contained remodel or repair. A median of $6,901 under a $1.7M total signals many small projects rather than a few large developments.

Q: What does an Alteration & Repair permit actually cover?
A: It authorizes changes to a home that already exists — interior remodels, system reworks, repairs, and code-driven upgrades on one- or two-family dwellings. It is filed under the raw label Bldg-Alter/Repair / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling and excludes ground-up new construction.

Q: Who pulls these permits in 91306?
A: Homeowners and the licensed contractors working for them — general contractors, electricians, plumbers, and specialty trades. In an Alteration & Repair–heavy ZIP like this one, the filer is usually a resident owner improving a property they plan to keep.

Q: How does 91306 compare to the rest of Los Angeles?
A: It runs lean on both volume and value. The metro recorded 4,042 permits worth $201.2M; 91306 contributed 58 permits and $1.7M. Higher-value ZIPs like 90272, at 388 permits and $66.2M, host far larger projects than this residential pocket.

Put Permit Data To Work

A ZIP-level permit read is a working tool, not a trophy stat. Contractors use it to qualify neighborhoods — 44 Alteration & Repair permits in 91306 is a concrete list of homes mid-renovation and worth a knock. Suppliers time inventory against where remodel work concentrates. Lenders read renovation demand as a proxy for owner investment. Real estate agents treat filings as pre-listing signals, since a permitted remodel often comes just ahead of a sale.

The friction is that this data lands raw, daily, and scattered across portals. US Tech Automations builds automations that turn that feed into routed signals — monitoring sealed permit snapshots, filtering them to a target ZIP or category, and drafting outreach the moment a relevant filing appears. The verifiable snapshots behind this report are published openly at permits.ustechautomations.com, and the same discipline anchors our permit prediction ledger, which seals forecasts before outcomes are known.

If you work the West Valley, the real question is whether you hear about a permit weeks late or the day it seals. US Tech Automations wires that monitoring and lead routing into one workflow. See how it fits real estate teams at our real-estate AI agents.

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