What Is Getting Built in 91344, Los Angeles? — June 2026

What is actually getting built in ZIP 91344, the Granada Hills corner of the north San Fernando Valley? Over the May 11 – June 9, 2026 reporting window, the answer is unglamorous and very specific: mostly modest work on houses that already exist. The ZIP recorded 95 residential building permits carrying $2.4M in total declared valuation, and 68 of those filings were alteration and repair permits on one- and two-family dwellings.

Every figure in this report is a ZIP-level slice of the sealed daily permit snapshots behind our Los Angeles metro edition — sealed-snapshot data, not survey data. Scope matters: this covers residential building permits (single-family and small multi-family) only; commercial and sub-trade permits are excluded at ingest, so it is not a count of all construction permits issued in the city.

Key Findings

• 95 residential permits filed in ZIP 91344, May 11 – June 9, 2026, according to US Tech Automations' sealed permit snapshots.

• $2.4M in total declared valuation across the ZIP's filings, per the sealed snapshot for the same window.

• 68 of 95 permits are alteration and repair filings — the "Bldg-Alter/Repair / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling" category dominates the ZIP.

• Median declared valuation in 91344 is $5,200, below the citywide median of $7,000.

• 91344 sits just ahead of 90066 (94 permits) and 91367 (90) among the busiest residential ZIPs in this edition's Los Angeles table.

ZIP 91344 Permit Activity, May 11 – June 9, 2026

The headline numbers for the ZIP are below. Valuation figures reflect what applicants declared on the permit, which is the value the building department records — not an appraisal of finished work.

For context, the city as a whole logged 4,042 residential permits and $201.2M in declared valuation over the same window, with 3,779 permits — 93.5% — carrying a declared value. The full citywide picture, including category mix and metro rankings, is in the Los Angeles building permit report for June 2026.

In a metro that filed 4,042 residential permits worth $201.2M over the same 30 days, ZIP 91344 contributed 95 permits and $2.4M — small-ticket, high-frequency work rather than headline projects.

The shape of the distribution tells you more than the total. Citywide, the middle half of permits with declared values falls between $2,500 and $35,000. A ZIP median of $5,200 puts the typical Granada Hills job in the lower half of that band: water-heater-adjacent structural fixes, single-room remodels, re-roofs, window swaps. Nobody pulls a permit like that for a spec mansion. They pull it because they live there and the house needs work.

What Is Getting Built in 91344: A Category Deep Dive

Granada Hills is a largely single-family neighborhood — block after block of postwar ranch and mid-century tract homes, most of them now decades past their original kitchens, roofs, and electrical panels. The permit mix reflects exactly that housing stock. This edition breaks out the ZIP's top category directly; for the rest of the mix, the citywide category table is the best available lens.

Alteration & Repair: 68 of the ZIP's 95 Permits

The dominant filing in 91344 is the category LADBS labels "Bldg-Alter/Repair / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling" — the friendly name is Alteration & Repair. In Los Angeles, this permit covers work that changes or fixes an existing house without expanding it: interior remodels that move walls, structural repairs, re-roofing that involves sheathing, window and door replacements that alter openings, fire and water-damage repairs, and foundation work.

It is the permit a remodeling contractor pulls for a kitchen gut, and the one a homeowner pulls before replacing a cracked beam. With 68 of the ZIP's 95 permits in this single category, Granada Hills is functionally a renovation market right now. The same category leads citywide — we look at it across every neighborhood in our Los Angeles alteration and repair permit report.

The $5,200 ZIP median is consistent with that read: lots of contained, single-trade-plus-carpentry jobs, few whole-house transformations.

Additions: The Metro's Second-Largest Category

Citywide, "Bldg-Addition / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling" is the second-biggest residential category with 422 permits over the window. An addition permit covers work that expands a home's footprint or volume — a new bedroom wing, an extended living room, a second story. These are the projects that change a property's square footage and, eventually, its assessed value.

This edition does not break out ZIP-level counts below the top category, so we will not guess at 91344's addition count. Qualitatively, the Valley's large lots make additions structurally easier than in hillside or small-lot Westside neighborhoods — a reason addition activity tends to concentrate in areas like this one.

New Construction: The Smallest of the Big Three

"Bldg-New / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling" — ground-up houses, including many accessory dwelling units filed as new dwellings — accounts for 359 permits citywide. New construction is where the big declared values live: the largest single residential permit in the city this window declared $4,000,000. A ZIP whose total declared valuation is $2.4M clearly did not host that kind of project.

Here is the citywide category mix for reference:

The takeaway: at both the ZIP and the city level, Los Angeles residential permitting is overwhelmingly about modifying the houses that already exist, not building new ones.

How 91344 Compares in Los Angeles

The table below sets 91344 against the other most active residential ZIPs in this edition's Los Angeles data, plus the citywide row. Em dashes mark values this edition does not break out.

Two things stand out. First, 90272 is in a class of its own — 388 permits and $66.2M, much of it rebuilding after the 2025 Palisades fire. We cover that ZIP separately in the 90272 permit report. Second, below that outlier the table flattens fast: 91344's 95 permits put it right alongside Westside ZIPs like Mar Vista's 90066 at 94, despite very different housing prices.

91344's $2.4M sits at the modest end of the table: 90272 declared $66.2M on 388 permits, while no San Fernando Valley ZIP listed here exceeded $6.0M in declared valuation.

The Valley cluster — Granada Hills, Woodland Hills, Reseda, Studio City — fills out the upper-middle of the permit-count rankings while staying low on declared dollars. That combination is the signature of an owner-occupier renovation market: many households doing necessary work, few doing trophy projects. For contractors, that means volume; for lenders and suppliers, it means steady, small-ticket demand rather than lumpy big jobs.

Methodology

Permit records come from the 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 metro snapshot used in the citywide report — no separate collection, no resampling. Scope, verbatim: 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.

The pipeline runs the same way every day:

1. Collect. Pull newly issued LADBS permit records from the city's public Socrata feed each day.

2. Normalize. Map raw fields to a common schema and filter to residential building permits, dropping commercial and sub-trade records at ingest.

3. Seal. Write each day's records into an append-only, content-addressed snapshot whose hash is recorded — the same discipline behind our permit prediction ledger.

4. Aggregate. Sum the sealed days across the May 11 – June 9, 2026 window, then slice by ZIP and category.

Citywide, 3,779 of 4,042 permits — 93.5% — carry a declared valuation; valuation figures throughout reflect those declared values as filed.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Does this report cover all construction in ZIP 91344?
A: No. The 95 permits are residential building permits (single-family and small multi-family) only. Commercial projects and sub-trade permits — standalone electrical, plumbing, and mechanical filings — are excluded at ingest. Total construction activity in Granada Hills is therefore higher than this count; this series deliberately isolates residential building work.

Q: Why is the median permit value in 91344 lower than the citywide median?
A: The ZIP's median declared valuation is $5,200 versus $7,000 citywide. The mix explains it: 68 of 95 permits are alteration and repair filings, which skew toward contained jobs like remodels, re-roofs, and structural fixes. Citywide, the middle half of declared values runs between $2,500 and $35,000, and Granada Hills clusters toward the bottom of that band.

Q: What does an alteration and repair permit actually cover in Los Angeles?
A: The LADBS category "Bldg-Alter/Repair / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling" covers changes to an existing house that don't expand it: interior remodels affecting walls or structure, re-roofing involving sheathing, window and door opening changes, foundation repairs, and fire or water-damage restoration. Cosmetic-only work like paint or flooring generally doesn't require one.

Q: Who is pulling these permits in Granada Hills?
A: Mostly remodeling contractors and general contractors working for homeowners, plus some owner-builder filings by residents doing their own projects. A renovation-heavy mix with a $5,200 median is the profile of an owner-occupier neighborhood maintaining aging single-family stock — not investors repositioning property at scale.

Q: How current is this data, and can the numbers change?
A: The window is May 11 – June 9, 2026, aggregated from snapshots sealed daily as permits were issued. Because each day is hashed and sealed at collection time, the figures here are fixed — they are computed from the sealed records, not estimated, and won't be silently revised later.

Put Permit Data to Work

A ZIP that files 95 residential permits in a single month — most of them renovation work — is a working market. Remodeling contractors use this data to qualify neighborhoods before spending on marketing: a renovation-dominant ZIP rewards trade-specific outreach more than a new-construction ZIP does. Suppliers time inventory for roofing, drywall, and window stock against permit flow. Agents read alteration activity as a pre-listing signal, since owners often fix houses shortly before selling. Lenders see the same filings as renovation-demand evidence.

US Tech Automations turns these signals into working systems: monitoring new filings as they appear, routing matching permits to the right sales pipeline, and drafting outreach for human review. The underlying data is browsable at permits.ustechautomations.com, and if you want permit-driven workflows built for your business, contact us.

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