What Is Getting Built in 91326, Los Angeles? — June 2026

What is getting built in 91326? In this Porter Ranch corner of the north San Fernando Valley, the honest answer for the May 11 – June 9, 2026 reporting window is: not much that is new, and a steady amount that is being fixed, modernized, or reworked inside homes that already stand. The ZIP filed 52 residential building permits, carrying $0.8M in reported valuation at an $8,800 median permit. That last figure is the tell — it points to maintenance and improvement work, not ground-up construction.

A permit is the public record a city creates when an owner is cleared to do a specific construction job, so 52 of them is a tidy readout of how many households here put a project on the official books in a single month. The single biggest slice of that work is alteration and repair on one- and two-family dwellings. Every number on this page is a slice of the same sealed Los Angeles snapshot — the citywide record filtered down to one postal area — with nothing estimated, modeled, or extrapolated.

The Short Version, Before the Tables

Here is 91326 in one breath: a built-out residential ZIP doing a modest, repeatable amount of home-improvement work, with the typical job priced like a remodel rather than a rebuild, sitting toward the quieter end of the Los Angeles pack. The sections below take each of those claims apart — what the dominant permit type covers, how the ZIP ranks against busier neighbors, and exactly how the figures were sealed before anyone analyzed them.

Scope matters before the first number lands. This report counts 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. It is also strictly cross-sectional — one window, described as it stands, with no growth, decline, or comparison-to-past claim anywhere on the page.

Key Findings

• ZIP 91326 filed 52 residential building permits in this window, according to US Tech Automations' sealed permit snapshots from the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety via data.lacity.org (Socrata).

• The median permit valuation in 91326 was $8,800, the signature of small repair-and-remodel jobs rather than new builds.

• Reported valuation across the ZIP totaled $0.8M, per the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety via data.lacity.org (Socrata).

• Alteration and repair on one- and two-family homes led the mix with 25 permits, according to the same sealed snapshots.

• The parent metro logged 4,042 residential permits worth $201.2M across Los Angeles, the snapshot this ZIP is carved from.

ZIP 91326 produced 52 residential permits worth $0.8M at an $8,800 median over May 11 – June 9, 2026 — a renovation-led pocket, not a construction frontier.

Reading the $8,800 Median First

The analyst's move with a single ZIP is to start at the median and work outward, because the median describes the typical filing and the total does not. At $8,800, half of 91326's permits were valued at or below that figure. In Los Angeles permitting terms, an $8,800 job is a re-roof, a panel upgrade, a bathroom redo, a window package, or a wall opened between two rooms — real work, paid for by an owner, but a long way from a new house.

Now hold that median against the ZIP's total. $0.8M spread across 52 permits is a distribution with almost no top end: many small tickets and no single mega-project dragging the sum upward. That is a different animal from the citywide series, where a maximum permit valuation of $4,000,000 sits alongside a median of $7,000 — Los Angeles as a whole contains a handful of very large jobs. In this window, 91326 did not. It is a maintenance-and-improvement market, full stop.

There is no separate valuation-coverage figure at the ZIP cut — coverage is a property of the citywide snapshot, not the slice — so the table reports the three fields the slice genuinely holds and nothing invented to fill it out.

What Is Getting Built in 91326

The depth of this page lives in one category. The dominant permit type is Bldg-Alter/Repair / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling — the source label we map to the friendlier name Alteration & Repair — with 25 permits in the window. Against a 52-permit total, that single bucket carries the heaviest share of activity in the ZIP, and it tells you most of what you need to know about who is working here.

So what does an Alteration & Repair permit on a one- or two-family dwelling actually authorize? In Los Angeles, it is the permit an owner or contractor pulls to change an existing home without adding new square footage. It is the workhorse of residential permitting. In practice it covers re-roofing, re-piping and re-wiring, kitchen and bathroom remodels, window and door replacement, foundation repair, seismic retrofits, removing or relocating non-bearing walls, and the long tail of "we are fixing or modernizing the house we already own."

Crucially, this is neither new construction nor an addition — Los Angeles tracks Bldg-New / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling and Bldg-Addition / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling as their own separate buckets citywide. That 91326's work concentrates in alteration and repair, rather than new builds or additions, reinforces the $8,800 median: this is a finished neighborhood where the housing stock already exists and the money flows into keeping it current.

For the trades, that concentration is a targeting signal, not a footnote. A roofer, electrician, plumber, or remodeler working the north Valley can read 25 Alteration & Repair filings in one ZIP in one month as a live map of houses mid-project — owners who have already decided to spend, already pulled paperwork, and may need the next trade in the sequence. The metro-wide mix below shows the same renovation lean at city scale, which is what makes a ZIP like this representative rather than odd.

Across the whole city, alteration and repair on small homes is the single largest category, far ahead of additions and new construction. 91326 is a small mirror of that pattern.

Where 91326 Lands Among Los Angeles ZIPs

A count of 52 only means something next to its neighbors. The table below places 91326 against other active Los Angeles ZIPs drawn from the same sealed snapshot, plus the metro headline row. Read down the permit column and the spread across one city is striking.

At 52 permits and $0.8M in valuation, 91326 sits below the city's busiest ZIP, 90272, which logged 388 permits worth $66.2M in the same window — one metro, very different neighborhoods.

The contrast with 90272 is the instructive one. That ZIP shows 388 permits and $66.2M in valuation — a high count and a high total, the signature of an affluent, high-teardown pocket where individual jobs are large. 91326 shows neither extreme: 52 permits and $0.8M, the signature of a steady remodel market running on volume of small jobs. Neither figure is better than the other; they describe two different kinds of demand inside the same city limits.

This is exactly why a single citywide average misleads. The Los Angeles median of $7,000 is built from both kinds of ZIP at once, and the lower and upper quartiles — $2,500 and $35,000 — frame how wide the per-permit spread really runs. Reading 91326 on its own terms gives a contractor or supplier a far sharper picture than the metro headline of 4,042 permits ever could.

How the 91326 Slice Was Built

The sourceAttribution for this data is the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety via data.lacity.org (Socrata). Honesty first: all figures are computed directly from US Tech Automations' sealed daily permit snapshots; nothing is estimated, modeled, or extrapolated.

This is a slice, not a separate dataset. A sealed snapshot is a point-in-time capture of public permit records, hashed and stored before any analysis runs, so every figure on this page can be reproduced later. The 91326 numbers are the Los Angeles snapshot filtered to one ZIP — the same captured rows, narrowed. The 52 permits here are a subset of the 4,042 the metro logged, and the $0.8M is part of the $201,163,491 citywide total. Across the metro, 3,779 permits carried a stated valuation — a coverage rate of 93.5%.

The pipeline runs in four plain steps:

1. Collect. Pull the day's published residential permit rows from the Socrata endpoint for Los Angeles, within the residential scope (single-family and small multi-family only).

2. Normalize. Map each record to one common schema — ZIP, category, reported valuation — so a permit means the same thing on every day of the window, and drop commercial and sub-trade permits at ingest.

3. Seal. Hash each day's normalized capture and append it to a content-addressed store, so no figure can be quietly revised after the fact.

4. Aggregate. Filter the sealed citywide rows to ZIP 91326 and compute the count, total, and median across the May 11 – June 9, 2026 window.

For the full metro picture this ZIP belongs to, see the Los Angeles building permit report for June 2026. The companion permit prediction ledger explains how these snapshots are sealed before any outcome is known.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Does 52 permits mean only 52 construction projects happened in 91326?
A: No. The 52 figure counts residential building permits only — single-family and small multi-family — captured in the sealed snapshot. Commercial and sub-trade permits such as standalone electrical or plumbing are excluded at ingest, so the true count of all construction activity in the ZIP is higher.

Q: Why is the median permit in 91326 only $8,800?
A: Because most of the work is small. An $8,800 median means half of the ZIP's filings were valued at or below that figure — re-roofs, remodels, and system replacements rather than new houses. The $0.8M total across 52 permits confirms a distribution with no large top end in this window.

Q: What does the dominant category, Alteration & Repair, actually cover?
A: On a one- or two-family dwelling it covers changes to an existing home without new square footage — re-roofing, re-wiring, re-piping, kitchen and bath remodels, window swaps, and retrofits. 25 of the ZIP's 52 permits fall in this single bucket.

Q: How does 91326 compare to busier Los Angeles ZIPs?
A: It sits toward the quieter end. ZIP 90272 logged 388 permits worth $66.2M in the same window, a high-value market. 91326, with 52 permits and $0.8M, is a steady remodel area running on volume of small jobs rather than a few marquee builds.

Q: Who actually pulls these permits?
A: Homeowners and the licensed contractors working for them. Because the activity concentrates in Alteration & Repair, the names behind these filings are people improving houses they already own — not developers adding new housing stock.

Q: How current is this data?
A: The figures cover the May 11 – June 9, 2026 window and come from sealed daily snapshots. Each day's permit data is captured and hashed, then aggregated across the window, so the count is a fixed record of what was filed during those dates rather than a live feed.

Put Permit Data to Work

A 52-permit ZIP is small enough to work by hand and real enough to act on. 25 Alteration & Repair filings in a single month is a queue of houses mid-project — and a queue is a workflow. The same sealed record means different things to different operators, and each can wire it into a routine.

Contractors read 91326's dominant category to qualify a farm area: a roofer or remodeler sees paperwork-confirmed demand in north Porter Ranch right now and times outreach to it. Suppliers stage roofing, lumber, or remodel inventory near where the small-job volume lands. Agents and lenders read renovation intensity as a pre-listing and home-improvement-borrowing signal — owners investing in a home are owners thinking about its value. The raw permit feed is public at permits.ustechautomations.com; the work is turning it into something that reaches the right door while the job is still fresh.

That is what US Tech Automations builds. We take sealed permit signals like 91326's and wire them into automated workflows — monitoring new filings as they post, routing the right lead to the right trade, and drafting first-touch outreach so a contractor is not retyping the same message 25 times. The discipline behind the product is the same one behind this report: data you can verify, then act on, with the cadence handled for you so the signal is worth something.

To see how that runs for a neighborhood like this one, explore our real-estate AI agents. You can also compare 91326 against its Valley neighbors in our sibling reports for ZIP 91307 and ZIP 91342.

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