28 Permits, $6,100 Median: ZIP 91411

Los Angeles is the largest market in this edition by a wide margin — the metro recorded 4,042 residential permits worth a reported $201.2M in the May 11 – June 9, 2026 window, ranking #1 of the eight metros we sealed. But that headline averages over ZIP codes that look nothing alike. At the top, ZIP 90272 alone logged 388 permits; far down the same list sits 91411, a Van Nuys pocket of the San Fernando Valley that filed just 28. This report zooms into that quiet corner.

The tension worth naming up front is between volume and size. ZIP 91411 produced 28 permits in the window, and the typical one carried a median valuation of $6,100 — small, single-purpose jobs rather than large builds. A high citywide total can hide a neighborhood like this entirely, which is exactly why a single-ZIP cut earns its place: it turns a regional aggregate into something a contractor or supplier can read at the street level.

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. Every figure here is a slice of the Los Angeles metro's sealed daily snapshot, filtered to the 91411 ZIP code.

The 91411 Picture in One Paragraph

Here is the whole post in brief. ZIP 91411 is a low-volume, small-job neighborhood inside an enormous metro: 28 residential permits cleared the window, the median filing was valued at $6,100, and one category — alteration and repair — carries most of the slate.

A building permit is a municipal authorization to perform construction, and a sealed snapshot is a point-in-time copy of public permit records that is hashed and stored before any analysis runs, so the figures cannot drift after capture. This is cross-sectional data describing one 30-day window; it makes no claim about trends, because no comparable prior window exists in this series yet.

ZIP 91411 logged 28 residential permits in the May 11 – June 9, 2026 window, with a median permit valuation of $6,100.

Key Findings

• ZIP 91411 recorded 28 residential building permits in the window, according to US Tech Automations' sealed permit snapshots.

• The median permit valuation in 91411 is $6,100, per the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety via data.lacity.org (Socrata).

• Alteration and repair filings lead the ZIP with 22 permits, according to the same Department of Building and Safety records.

• Reported permit valuation in 91411 totals $0.8M for the window, according to the sealed snapshot data.

• The ZIP sits inside a Los Angeles metro that logged 4,042 permits worth $201.2M, per the sealed metro snapshot.

Reading 91411 Against the Metro

Before the ZIP's own table, it helps to fix where 91411 falls inside Los Angeles. The metro median permit valuation is $7,000; the metro's reported valuation total is $201.2M across 4,042 permits. ZIP 91411's 28 permits and $0.8M are a rounding error against that total — and that is the normal shape of a large city, not a defect. Activity concentrates in a handful of busy ZIPs while the long tail of neighborhoods like 91411 each contribute a small, steady trickle.

The metro-wide valuation distribution makes the point. Across Los Angeles, the lower-quartile permit is valued at $2,500 and the upper-quartile permit at $35,000, while the most expensive filing in the window reached $4,000,000. A spread that wide means the citywide median of $7,000 is held down by a flood of small jobs and pulled up by a thin band of large ones. ZIP 91411, with its $6,100 median, plainly lives in the small-job half of that range.

Los Angeles ranks #1 of 8 metros this edition, with 4,042 permits and a reported $201.2M; ZIP 91411 contributes 28 of those permits.

ZIP 91411 Permit Activity, May 11 – June 9, 2026

The table below is the 91411 slice of the sealed Los Angeles snapshot. Valuation figures reflect what applicants declared on their filings, not independent appraisals, and the compact valuation total is reported exactly as the snapshot rolled it up.

A $6,100 median tells you most of what you need to know about scope here. The typical permit in 91411 is a small, defined job — the kind of work an owner schedules with one or two trades and finishes in days or weeks, not a gut renovation or a ground-up build. With 28 permits sharing a compact total of $0.8M, there is no long tail of multi-million-dollar projects inflating the picture the way the $4,000,000 metro maximum does at the citywide level.

For anyone reading demand, that low and tight distribution is a feature, not a limitation. It points to recurring maintenance and improvement work — the steady, distributed demand that keeps neighborhood electricians, plumbers, and roofers busy, rather than the lumpy, project-by-project flow of new construction. A median near the metro's lower quartile signals a market of standing homes being maintained, not lots being assembled.

What Is Getting Built in 91411

The dominant permit category in 91411 is Bldg-Alter/Repair / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling, shown below under its friendly label Alteration & Repair. In the window, that category accounts for 22 permits of the ZIP's 28 — the clear majority of the slate.

In Los Angeles, an alteration-and-repair permit on a one- or two-family dwelling covers work that changes or restores an existing home without adding to its footprint or putting up a new structure. Typical triggers include rewiring or an electrical panel upgrade, re-roofing, replacing or relocating plumbing, structural repairs after damage, window and door changes, interior reconfiguration, and kitchen or bath remodels. The common thread is that the house already exists and the owner is investing back into it.

Alteration and repair work accounts for 22 of the 28 residential permits filed in ZIP 91411 during the window.

That concentration says something specific about who is active here. A ZIP weighted this heavily toward alteration and repair is a neighborhood of owner-occupants and long-hold landlords maintaining their properties, not a development zone where builders are assembling parcels. The work is spread across many small filings rather than a few headline projects, which is why the median valuation lands in the low thousands.

For the trades, this is bread-and-butter demand. Remodels and repairs pull in electricians, plumbers, HVAC technicians, roofers, and finish carpenters in sequence, and the work tends to cluster — once one home on a block files, neighbors often follow. For suppliers, an alteration-heavy mix means demand for fixtures, lumber, roofing material, and finish goods rather than the structural and sitework volume a new-construction ZIP generates. For real estate agents, a steady stream of improvement permits is a pre-listing tell: owners who pull permits are frequently preparing to sell, or quietly raising the value of a home they intend to hold.

It is worth contrasting this with the metro mix. Citywide, alteration and repair is also the largest category at 2,486 permits, followed by additions at 422 and new construction at 359. ZIP 91411 mirrors that ordering but in miniature, with almost no presence from the addition and new-build categories that show up in busier ZIPs.

How 91411 Compares in Los Angeles

The 91411 figure only means something next to the rest of the metro. The table below places the ZIP alongside other active Los Angeles ZIP codes from the same sealed snapshot, plus the citywide headline row. Permit counts and compact valuation totals are copied verbatim from the snapshot.

Read down the column and 91411 sits at the quietest end of the panel. The busiest ZIP listed, 90272, logged 388 permits against the ZIP's 28, and its $66.2M compact total dwarfs the $0.8M reported in 91411. Even the mid-pack ZIPs — 90042 at 71 permits, 90039 at 67 — run well ahead on both volume and reported valuation.

Two of 91411's San Fernando Valley neighbors on this list are instructive. ZIP 91335 logged 83 permits and 91364 logged 79, both several times the activity in 91411 within the same broad part of the city. A neighboring report like our ZIP 91405 permit report shows how adjacent Valley pockets can diverge even when they sit minutes apart, and the ZIP 90004 report makes the same point for a denser stretch of central Los Angeles.

That contrast is the entire point of a neighborhood-level cut. Los Angeles as a whole recorded 4,042 permits worth $201.2M in the window, but that metro figure is an average over ZIPs as different as 90272 and 91411. A high-valuation ZIP signals larger projects and likely more substantial construction; a low-valuation, alteration-led ZIP like 91411 signals maintenance-grade demand. For a contractor or supplier deciding where to spend marketing dollars, those are two different markets hiding inside one citywide total. The fuller metro breakdown lives in our Los Angeles building permit report.

Methodology

The source for this slice is the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety via data.lacity.org (Socrata). The 91411 figures are a ZIP-level cut of the same sealed daily snapshots that drive the citywide Los Angeles report — the same records, filtered to one ZIP code, with no separate collection path.

All figures are computed directly from US Tech Automations' sealed daily permit snapshots; nothing is estimated, modeled, or extrapolated. Where the source feed omits a declared valuation on a filing, that filing still counts toward the permit total but contributes nothing to the valuation roll-up, so the reported valuation should be read as a floor rather than a ceiling. Across the metro, 3,779 of the 4,042 permits carried a declared valuation, a coverage rate of 93.5%.

The pipeline runs in a fixed order every day:

1. Collect. Pull the day's published residential permit records from the Los Angeles Socrata feed.

2. Normalize. Map each record to a common schema, apply the residential scope filter, and tag it with its ZIP code.

3. Seal. Hash the normalized day and store it append-only, so the snapshot cannot be altered after capture.

4. Aggregate. Sum permits and valuation across the May 11 – June 9, 2026 window and cut the result to ZIP 91411.

We seal predictions about future activity on the same discipline and score them against public outcomes later; that work is published openly in our permit prediction ledger.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Is the 28-permit count all construction in 91411?
A: No. The scope is residential building permits — single-family and small multi-family. Commercial and sub-trade permits are excluded at ingest, so 28 is the residential slice of activity in the ZIP, not every permit issued there.

Q: Why is the median permit valuation only $6,100?
A: Because most filings in 91411 are small jobs. With alteration and repair accounting for 22 of the 28 permits, the typical work is a single-trade repair or modest improvement, which keeps the median permit valuation at $6,100 rather than the higher figures a new-construction ZIP would show.

Q: Who pulls these permits in 91411?
A: Largely homeowners and their contractors. An alteration-and-repair-heavy mix points to owners reinvesting in existing one- and two-family homes, with licensed trades filing on their behalf for rewiring, roofing, plumbing, and remodel work.

Q: How does 91411 compare to the rest of Los Angeles?
A: It is one of the quietest ZIPs on the panel. Where 91411 logged 28 permits, ZIP 90272 logged 388, and the Los Angeles metro as a whole recorded 4,042 in the same window. The ZIP-level cut surfaces differences the citywide total hides.

Q: Can I trust these numbers will not change later?
A: Yes. Each day's records are hashed and stored append-only the moment they are captured, so the sealed snapshot behind every figure in this report is fixed and independently checkable against the published source.

Put Permit Data to Work

Permit data is most useful when it is wired into a workflow rather than read once. In a neighborhood like 91411, where alteration and repair drives 22 of 28 filings, a roofing or electrical contractor wants to know the day a relevant permit posts; a supplier wants to time fixture and material inventory to local demand; a lender wants to read renovation activity as a credit signal; and a real estate agent wants improvement permits as a pre-listing tell.

US Tech Automations turns that raw feed into automated signal handling — monitoring new filings as they seal, routing the ones that match a service area or trade, and drafting outreach so a team can act while the job is still fresh. The same sealed-snapshot discipline behind this report runs underneath those workflows. The public permits view, including this Los Angeles data, lives at permits.ustechautomations.com.

To see how permit signals become automated agent workflows for the trades, real estate, and lending, explore our real-estate AI agents.

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