53 Permits in 91342: Los Angeles ZIP Report — June 2026

Start with one number: 53. That is how many residential building permits ZIP 91342 in Los Angeles produced over the May 11 – June 9, 2026 reporting window, carrying $1.6M in reported valuation at a $5,400 median. A building permit is the public record a city creates when an owner is authorized to do construction work, so 53 of them is a plain-language readout of how many households in this Sylmar-area ZIP put a project on the books in a single month.

The $5,400 median is what gives those 53 permits their character. A typical filing here is a modest job on an existing home, not a ground-up build — and the single largest category is alteration and repair work on one- and two-family dwellings. Every figure below is a slice of the metro's sealed snapshot: the same Los Angeles dataset, cut down to one ZIP, with nothing estimated or modeled.

Quick Answer for 91342

If you want the shape of this ZIP in one breath: 91342 recorded 53 residential permits worth $1.6M at a $5,400 median, the workload is dominated by alteration and repair on small homes, and it sits in the middle of the Los Angeles pack rather than at the top. This post unpacks each of those facts — what the permit type covers, how the ZIP ranks against its neighbors, and how the figures were sealed.

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 91342 recorded 53 residential building permits in this window, according to US Tech Automations' sealed permit snapshots.

• Reported valuation for the ZIP totaled $1.6M, per the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety via data.lacity.org (Socrata).

• The median permit valuation was $5,400, signaling small repair-scale jobs rather than large builds.

• Alteration and repair on one- and two-family homes led the mix with 37 permits, per the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety via data.lacity.org (Socrata).

• The parent metro logged 4,042 residential permits across Los Angeles, per the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety via data.lacity.org (Socrata).

ZIP 91342 produced 53 residential permits worth $1.6M at a $5,400 median over May 11 – June 9, 2026 — a renovation-led neighborhood, not a construction frontier.

Frequently Asked Questions

Because this is a single-ZIP cut of a much larger dataset, a handful of questions come up before anything else. The answers below lead with the sealed figures and stay close to what the data can actually support.

Q: Is this every construction permit pulled in 91342?
A: No. The 53 permits cover residential building permits only — single-family and small multi-family work. Commercial projects and sub-trade permits such as standalone electrical or plumbing are excluded at ingest, so the count reflects house-level building activity rather than all construction in the ZIP.

Q: Why is the 91342 median permit only $5,400?
A: A $5,400 median means half of the ZIP's permits were valued at or below that figure. Most filings in 91342 are small repair and alteration jobs on existing homes, which carry low reported valuations. The median is a better read of the typical job than the $1.6M total, which a few larger projects can pull upward.

Q: What kind of work shows up most in 91342?
A: Alteration and repair on one- and two-family dwellings, with 37 permits in this window. That category covers re-roofs, structural repairs, and interior remodels on existing houses — maintenance and upgrade work rather than new construction.

Q: Who actually pulls these 53 permits?
A: Homeowners and the licensed contractors working for them. In a repair-led ZIP like 91342, a general contractor or a roofing or remodeling specialist typically files on the owner's behalf. The 37 alteration permits point to renovation trades being the most active hands in this neighborhood.

Q: How does 91342 compare to the rest of Los Angeles?
A: It sits in the middle. Los Angeles ranks #1 across the edition for both permit count and total valuation with 4,042 permits, while 91342 contributes 53 of them. Wealthier hillside ZIPs such as 90272 ran far higher; many smaller ZIPs ran lower.

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.

ZIP 91342 Permit Activity, May 11 – June 9, 2026

The headline figures for the ZIP fit in a single table. Each row is a direct slice of the Los Angeles sealed snapshot for the reporting window.

A $5,400 median across 53 permits is the signature of a maintenance-and-upgrade ZIP: many small jobs, very few large ones.

The gap between the $1.6M total and the $5,400 median is the part worth sitting with. When the average-implied figure runs well above the median, the distribution is skewed — most permits are small, and the dollar total leans on a thin handful of larger projects. For anyone working 91342, that means the steady volume of opportunity is in modest renovation jobs, not in chasing a few marquee builds. Our Los Angeles building permit report lays out the same pattern at the metro scale.

What Is Getting Built in 91342

The dominant permit type in 91342 is Bldg-Alter/Repair / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling — what we label Alteration & Repair — with 37 permits in the window. That is the bulk of the ZIP's activity, and it tells you most of what you need to know about who is working here.

An alteration and repair permit on a one- or two-family dwelling covers work on a home that already exists. In practice that is re-roofing after weather or age, structural repairs, foundation work, window and door replacement, and interior remodels that touch walls, wiring layouts, or load paths. It is the permit a city requires before a contractor opens up an existing house — distinct from a new-construction permit, which authorizes a building from the ground up, and from an addition permit, which authorizes new square footage bolted onto a standing home.

That 37 permits sit inside a 53-permit total is the real signal. The majority of 91342's filings are owners maintaining and improving housing they already own. For a roofing crew, a remodeler, or a general contractor, this is repeatable bread-and-butter demand: a steady stream of mid-size jobs spread across a neighborhood rather than one or two large sites. The permit prediction ledger tracks how these early filings line up against later public outcomes.

The metro-wide category mix confirms the same lean toward renovation. Across all of Los Angeles, alteration and repair on small homes is the single biggest bucket, well ahead of additions and new builds.

How 91342 Stacks Up Among Los Angeles ZIPs

A ZIP's 53 permits only mean something next to its neighbors. The table below places 91342 against other active Los Angeles ZIPs from the same sealed snapshot, plus the metro headline row. Reading down the permit column shows how wide the spread runs across the city.

The spread is the lesson. ZIP 90272 alone carried $66.2M in reported valuation against 91342's $1.6M, even though both are slices of the same city. High-valuation ZIPs concentrate large remodels and rebuilds, while a mid-pack ZIP like 91342 — with 53 permits at a $5,400 median — runs on volume of small jobs. Neither figure is better; they describe different kinds of demand.

A supplier stocking for hillside rebuilds works 90272; a roofing or repair crew chasing steady turnover works ZIPs shaped like 91342. The metro row anchors all of it at 4,042 permits and $201.2M in reported valuation. Two sibling neighborhood cuts, ZIP 91331 and ZIP 91326, show how the same metro splits ZIP by ZIP.

How the 91342 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. The ZIP 91342 numbers are the Los Angeles metro snapshot filtered to one ZIP code — the same captured records, narrowed. That framing matters: the 53 permits here are a subset of the 4,042 the metro logged, and the $1.6M is part of the $201.2M citywide total. Across the metro, 3,779 permits carried a reported valuation, a 93.5% coverage rate, and the citywide lower quartile sits at $2,500 while the upper quartile reaches $35,000 — context for reading any single ZIP's median against the whole.

This snapshot is cross-sectional. It describes one window, May 11 – June 9, 2026, and makes no claim about trends, growth, or change versus any earlier period — that data does not exist yet. The pipeline runs in four plain steps:

1. Collect. Pull residential building permits daily from the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety via data.lacity.org (Socrata).

2. Normalize. Map each record to a common schema — ZIP, category, reported valuation — and drop commercial and sub-trade permits at ingest.

3. Seal. Hash each day's normalized snapshot and append it to a content-addressed store so the record cannot be quietly changed later.

4. Aggregate. Count permits, total and median the valuations, and cut the result to ZIP 91342 across the full reporting window.

Put Permit Data to Work

A 53-permit ZIP is a small enough surface to work by hand and a real enough signal to act on. The same record means different things to different operators, and each can wire it into a daily routine.

• Contractors read 91342's 37 alteration permits as a map of where renovation demand is concentrated, then time outreach to neighborhoods actively pulling repair work.

• Suppliers watch which permit categories dominate a ZIP to stage roofing, lumber, or remodel inventory near where the jobs are landing.

• Real estate agents treat a cluster of permits as a pre-listing signal — homeowners investing in a property often sell within a year or two.

• Lenders read renovation permit volume as a proxy for home-improvement borrowing demand in a specific ZIP.

This is the workflow US Tech Automations automates. Instead of an analyst hand-checking a portal, the system monitors sealed permit feeds, routes new filings in a target ZIP to the right person, and drafts the first outreach so a contractor or agent can act the same week. The underlying public data lives at permits.ustechautomations.com, and that raw stream becomes a monitoring-and-routing layer that sits on top.

The value is in the cadence. Permit signals are only useful if someone sees them while the job is still fresh, and an agent that closes that gap is the product. If your business runs on knowing who in 91342 just got authorized to build, see how it works for real estate teams.

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