What Is Getting Built in 91352, Los Angeles? — June 2026

What is getting built in 91352? Over the May 11 – June 9, 2026 window, the answer is a tidy, repeatable kind of work: 44 permits filed across this Sun Valley ZIP in the northeast San Fernando Valley, almost all of it pointed at homes that already stand. Nobody is reshaping the streetscape here. The record reads like a neighborhood quietly fixing and upgrading what it owns.

The single sharpest figure is the median. Half of 91352's permits carried a declared value at or below $8,375 — modest, owner-paced jobs rather than headline projects. Every number on this page is a slice of the Los Angeles metro's sealed daily snapshot, filtered down to this one ZIP; we do not run a separate scrape for it. 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.

Key Findings

• 44 permits were recorded in ZIP 91352 over the reporting window, per Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety via data.lacity.org (Socrata).

• The ZIP's declared valuation totaled $1.7M, according to US Tech Automations' sealed permit snapshots.

• The median permit valuation in 91352 was $8,375 — a small-job signature with a slight premium over the citywide midpoint.

• The dominant work type was Bldg-Alter/Repair / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling, carrying 26 of the ZIP's permits.

• The metro it belongs to logged 4,042 permits worth $201.2M in the same window, the snapshot this ZIP is cut from.

Frequently Asked Questions

This report leads with the questions, because they are the ones a contractor, supplier, or agent actually asks before deciding whether 91352 is worth their attention. Every answer is built only from the sealed slice for this ZIP.

Q: Is 44 the total number of permits issued in 91352?
A: No. The 44 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 does the median permit value sit at $8,375?
A: Because the file is dominated by alteration-and-repair work — re-roofs, panel swaps, remodels — rather than new builds. A median of $8,375 means many mid-sized improvement jobs instead of a few giant projects, the typical shape of an established residential ZIP.

Q: What does the $1.7M total represent?
A: It is the sum of declared valuations on residential permits filed in 91352 during the window. Declared valuation is the applicant's stated cost of the work, not a sale price or an assessment, so it tracks construction spend rather than property value.

Q: What kind of permit leads the ZIP?
A: The top type is Bldg-Alter/Repair / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling at 26 permits, which our pipeline labels in plain English as Alteration & Repair. It covers modifying or restoring an existing one- or two-family home rather than building a new one.

Q: How does 91352 compare to the rest of Los Angeles?
A: It is a small, steady slice. The metro recorded 4,042 permits worth $201.2M in the same window and ranks #1 among the eight metros we track on both volume and value. ZIP 91352, at 44 permits and $1.7M, is a modest corner of that total.

Q: Will the 44-permit count change later?
A: Each daily snapshot is content-hashed and stored append-only, so the 44-permit figure is computed from a fixed record set. That is the whole purpose of sealing — the number is reproducible rather than a moving target.

ZIP 91352 Permit Activity, May 11 – June 9, 2026

The headline figures for this ZIP are deliberately few. Read together, the count, the total, and the median describe the local market more honestly than any single number could on its own.

ZIP 91352 carried $1.7M of declared residential permit value across the window, on a median permit of $8,375 — many mid-sized jobs, no mega-project pulling the average up.

A $8,375 median sitting under a $1.7M total is the classic shape of a steady-state residential ZIP. Most permits are routine — re-roofs, service-panel upgrades, kitchen and bath alterations — and the total is the sum of many such jobs rather than a handful of large ones. There is no teardown corridor here. Demand in 91352 is broad and shallow, which is itself useful intelligence for anyone deciding where to spend effort.

That median is worth a second look. Citywide, the median permit valuation is $7,000; 91352 runs a touch above it at $8,375. The gap is small, but it nudges this ZIP slightly toward the heavier end of routine work — the larger remodels and additions rather than the lightest fixes — without ever leaving the small-job band.

What Is Getting Built in 91352

The single largest category in 91352 is Bldg-Alter/Repair / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling, which our pipeline presents in plain English as Alteration & Repair, accounting for 26 of the ZIP's permits. That one label carries the bulk of the activity, and understanding what sits behind it is the entire reason to read permit data instead of merely tallying it.

An "Alteration & Repair" permit on a one- or two-family dwelling is the workhorse of residential construction. In Los Angeles, it is the file a homeowner or contractor opens to change or restore 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 seismic and soft-story retrofits the city has pushed across older Valley housing stock. The house already exists; the permit lets a licensed crew touch its bones legally.

That 26-permit concentration tells contractors and suppliers something concrete: this is renovation territory, not a new-build market. The owners pulling these permits are not relocating — they are reinvesting. For a roofer, a remodeler, or an electrical sub, a ZIP led by alteration-and-repair work is a recurring-revenue neighborhood, where the same streets generate the same kind of mid-sized job year after year and a crew that earns a reputation on one block tends to win the next.

Renovation, not replacement: 26 of the 44 permits in 91352 are alteration-and-repair files on existing one- or two-family homes.

It also tells you what 91352 is not doing. With alteration and repair carrying most of the work, the ZIP is not seeing a wave of ground-up homes reshaping the area. Sun Valley is largely built out; the housing stock exists and is being maintained, upgraded, and occasionally retrofitted to current code rather than replaced.

For a trade weighing whether to build a local presence, that stability is the asset — predictable, repeatable demand beats a one-time spike, and the 26 alteration-and-repair permits are the clearest proof of that pattern on file. Our Los Angeles permit report shows the same work type dominating the full 4,042-permit metro picture.

Suppliers read the same fact differently than contractors. A building-materials distributor sees 26 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 reads renovation appetite among existing owners, a different credit story than new-purchase demand. The same count answers a different question for each reader, which is exactly why the raw, sealed figure is worth more than a pre-baked interpretation.

How 91352 Stacks Up Inside the Metro

A single ZIP only means something next to its neighbors. The table places 91352 against the metro's most active residential ZIPs in the same window, then against the citywide headline row — the same sealed snapshot, cut several ways.

The gap between 91352 and a ZIP like 90272 is the story. The Palisades ZIP recorded 388 permits worth $66.2M; 91352's 44 permits total $1.7M. That is not just fewer jobs — it is a fundamentally cheaper kind of job. Where the coastal ZIPs carry teardown-and-rebuild dollars, 91352 reads as a maintenance-and-improvement market: kitchens, additions, and code-driven repairs on homes that are staying put.

Against the metro's 4,042 permits and $201.2M, the 44 permits in 91352 are a thin slice 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, and 91352's $1.7M total against the citywide $201.2M confirms a low-valuation, high-frequency profile that the metro median of $7,000 also reflects.

The metro's quartile spread sharpens the 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 range — a few very large projects atop a deep base of small ones. ZIP 91352, with its $8,375 median, lives squarely in that base, a notch above the floor. For neighborhood-level comparisons cut from the same snapshot, see our sibling reports on a nearby Granada Hills-area ZIP and a Canoga Park-area ZIP.

Methodology

Source: Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety via data.lacity.org (Socrata). The honesty constraint governs every figure here: 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 in this post's frontmatter. ZIP-level figures like 91352'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.

If a permit lacks a declared valuation in the source, it still counts toward the permit total but adds nothing to the valuation total. Across the metro, valuation coverage runs at 93.5%, with 3,779 of the city's records carrying a valuation figure — context that applies to this ZIP's slice as much as to the citywide total.

This edition is cross-sectional. It describes one 30-day window and makes no claim about trends, growth, or change over time, because comparable historical windows do not yet exist in this series. When you read "44 permits," read it as a count for this window only. The discipline behind the number is mechanical:

1. Collect. We pull residential permit records daily from the Socrata feed at data.lacity.org, 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 every metro we track.

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

4. Aggregate. Over the reporting window, the 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 — the same standard, applied to forward-looking claims.

Put 91352 Permit Data to Work

A sealed ZIP-level permit feed is operational intelligence for several roles at once. A contractor uses 44 permits and a 26-permit alteration-and-repair concentration to qualify 91352 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 $8,375 median as renovation demand among existing owners. An agent reads steady alteration activity as a pre-listing signal — homes being improved before they reach 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 each new record 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 44 permits themselves — it is acting on them faster than anyone working the same Sun Valley streets by hand.

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