What Is Getting Built in 91602, Los Angeles?

What is getting built in ZIP 91602? The sealed answer, for the 30-day window ending June 9, 2026, is: mostly interior repairs and targeted alterations to existing single-family and small multi-family homes. ZIP 91602 — the Studio City and Toluca Lake corridor just south of the Santa Monica Mountains — filed 17 residential permits during May 11 – June 9, 2026. Total declared valuation came in at $0.5M, and the top permit category was Alteration & Repair, accounting for 6 of the 17 permits.

These figures are a focused slice of Los Angeles metro's sealed snapshot, which captured 4,042 residential permits worth $201.2M citywide in the same window. Every figure in this report is computed directly from the sealed daily permit snapshots; nothing is estimated, modeled, or extrapolated. 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

• 17 residential permits filed in ZIP 91602 during May 11 – June 9, 2026, per the sealed permit snapshot.

• $0.5M in total declared valuation across all 17 permits in this window.

• Median permit valuation of $6,750 in 91602 — close to the metro-wide median of $7,000, suggesting jobs in this ZIP are roughly in line with the city average scope.

• 6 of 17 permits were classified as "Bldg-Alter/Repair / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling" — the Alteration & Repair category — making it the top work type.

• Los Angeles metro recorded 4,042 permits and $201.2M in declared valuation citywide during the same reporting window.

What Is Being Permitted: Alteration & Repair

The Leading Category — Alteration & Repair

The dominant permit type in 91602 this window is Alteration & Repair — the raw source label is "Bldg-Alter/Repair / 1 or 2 Family Dwelling" in the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety feed. 6 of the 17 permits fell under this classification.

A building permit in Los Angeles is an official authorization for work that affects the structure or systems of a residential property. An Alteration & Repair permit specifically covers work that modifies what already exists without adding gross square footage to the dwelling.

The work that typically triggers this category includes: bathroom and kitchen remodels that touch structural walls or require plumbing relocation; roof replacement or structural sheathing repair; electrical service panel upgrades and rewiring; HVAC system replacements; window and door replacements that alter the opening size; and repairs following water damage, fire, or deferred maintenance that has become code-compliance work.

Studio City and Toluca Lake properties — many of them mid-century California ranches, 1940s and 1950s bungalows, or older Spanish Colonial cottages — generate this type of permit regularly. The housing stock is mature, and in a market where land prices make teardown-rebuild economics difficult, owners tend to invest in the existing structure rather than replace it.

The 6 alteration-and-repair permits in 91602 during this window represent a mix of that maintenance-mode activity. They are not all the same job — an electrical upgrade and a bathroom remodel both fall under this category — but they share the characteristic that no new square footage is being created.

Remaining Permit Types

The remaining 11 permits in the window spread across other residential categories: additions, potentially new construction, and other improvement types. The closed display set for this ZIP does not break those 11 out by individual sub-category, so the specific mix is not quantifiable here. What the display set does tell us is that the alteration-and-repair category was the single largest group, and that the overall median of $6,750 reflects a distribution without dramatically high outliers pulling the median up — if large new-construction or major-addition permits dominated, the median would typically sit higher.

The median permit valuation of $6,750 in ZIP 91602 is nearly in line with the metro-wide $7,000 median, suggesting jobs in this corridor track the citywide average scope.

ZIP 91602 filed 17 residential permits worth $0.5M total, with Alteration & Repair accounting for 6 of them.

How 91602 Compares in Los Angeles

The table below shows the Los Angeles ZIPs filing at the highest volumes in this edition alongside the ZIPs nearest 91602 in permit count. This is a peer-band framing — not a ranked leaderboard — sourced from the sealed snapshot for May 11 – June 9, 2026.

ZIP 91602 sits alongside three other ZIPs — 90031, 90501, and 91303 — each recording 17 permits in this window. At $0.5M total, 91602 comes in between 90031 ($0.4M) and 90501 ($0.8M). The cluster behavior across these four ZIPs is notable: similar permit volumes but meaningful variation in declared valuation, driven by the mix of job types and the typical project scope within each neighborhood.

The gap between 91602 and the highest-volume ZIP (90272, with 388 permits and $66.2M) underscores what a fundamentally different market looks like. Pacific Palisades-area 90272 is a luxury renovation market. Studio City-area 91602 in this window is an established residential neighborhood in steady maintenance mode — active, but not in a construction surge.

ZIP 91602 Permit Activity, May 11 – June 9, 2026

The metro context: Los Angeles logged 4,042 residential permits worth $201.2M across the same 30-day window. The metro-wide median is $7,000, the maximum declared value is $4,000,000, and valuation coverage is 93.5% (3,779 of 4,042 permits carried a declared value). The citywide category breakdown below shows how dominant Alteration & Repair is across the whole metro — the same category leading 91602:

Methodology

Source: Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety via data.lacity.org (Socrata).

Honesty statement: All figures are computed directly from US Tech Automations' sealed daily permit snapshots; nothing is estimated, modeled, or extrapolated.

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.

This 91602 report is a ZIP-level cut of the same sealed dataset described in the Los Angeles metro building permit report for June 2026. The 17 permits here are a subset of the metro total; no separate data source is used.

Data production steps:

1. Collect. Our research team pulls daily permit filings from the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety open-data feed via data.lacity.org (Socrata API).

2. Normalize. Each record is classified by permit type, ZIP code, and declared valuation. Residential and commercial/sub-trade permits are separated at ingest; records missing ZIP or permit type are excluded.

3. Seal. Each daily snapshot is content-hashed (SHA: bb1d222aa1d0c3af) and stored as an immutable record. No retroactive modifications are made.

4. Aggregate. The 30-day window May 11 – June 9, 2026 is rolled up by ZIP to produce the counts and valuations shown here.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What does the 6 Alteration & Repair count tell us about the types of jobs in 91602?
A: It indicates that the majority of permitted residential work in this ZIP during the window involved modifying existing structures without expanding them. Common jobs in this category include kitchen and bath remodels, roof replacements, electrical upgrades, and structural repairs. Six out of 17 permits in this category — at a median job value of $6,750 — is consistent with small-to-mid-scope maintenance and improvement activity on the neighborhood's established housing stock.

Q: Is the 91602 permit count representative of what typically happens in this ZIP?
A: This report covers a single 30-day sealed snapshot. We do not have prior windows in the same sealed format to compare against, so we cannot characterize this as typical or atypical relative to prior periods. What we can say is that 17 permits in 30 days places 91602 in a mid-tier cluster alongside several other Los Angeles ZIPs in this edition, according to the sealed permit data.

Q: Why is the median valuation close to the metro median?
A: The $6,750 median in 91602 sits just below the metro-wide $7,000 median, suggesting this ZIP does not have a dramatically skewed distribution of permit values. A neighborhood with many large-scope addition or new-construction permits would tend to show a higher median. Studio City and Toluca Lake properties in this window appear to be generating permit activity that is roughly in line with the citywide average job scope.

Q: How does a sealed snapshot differ from a live query of permit records?
A: A live query returns the permit database as it stands today, which may include records added, amended, or backdated after the original filing date. A sealed snapshot is a point-in-time extract, content-hashed and frozen — it captures exactly what the feed contained on the collection date. This makes the sealed version reproducible and auditable, whereas a live query is not guaranteed to reproduce the same result. The research team uses sealed snapshots precisely to avoid this ambiguity.

Q: Who pulls Alteration & Repair permits in a neighborhood like Studio City?
A: In an established residential corridor like 91602, the permit applicant is typically a licensed general contractor working for a homeowner, a licensed trade contractor (roofing, electrical, plumbing) handling a specific scope, or occasionally an owner-builder for smaller work. Larger remodels tend to be GC-pulled; targeted repairs tend to be trade-contractor-pulled. The LADBS records the permit applicant, but the underlying customer is usually the property owner initiating the work.

Put Permit Data to Work

Remodeling contractors working the Studio City and Toluca Lake corridor can use this data to size the active market. Seventeen permits in a 30-day window, dominated by Alteration & Repair at a median of $6,750, describes a neighborhood with active but not explosive renovation demand. Contractors who specialize in mid-scope remodels — kitchen refreshes, bath updates, structural repairs — are well-matched to this market profile.

US Tech Automations can automate permit monitoring for this ZIP, flagging new filings daily and routing them to the appropriate outreach list, so contractors hear about new jobs as they are permitted rather than after the work is already awarded.

Listing agents and buyer agents working the greater San Fernando Valley and Hollywood Hills area can read ZIP 91602 permit activity as a pre-listing signal. In a neighborhood where Alteration & Repair dominates, owners are often preparing homes for sale — fixing deferred maintenance, upgrading systems that a buyer inspection would flag, or refreshing kitchens and bathrooms before listing. An agent monitoring this feed can identify homeowners who are likely within six to eighteen months of listing.

Material suppliers serving the Studio City corridor can use the low-to-mid valuation median to calibrate inventory toward maintenance and repair materials rather than large-volume framing or foundation supplies. Roofing, electrical, and finish materials align with this market's profile in the current window.

Live permit feeds for Los Angeles are available at https://permits.ustechautomations.com. For a broader view of Los Angeles residential building activity, see the Los Angeles metro permit report. The sibling report for ZIP 91303, 17 Permits in 91303, covers a neighboring corridor at the same volume level.

US Tech Automations automates the signal-to-workflow pipeline for permit data. To see how that looks in practice, visit /platform/agentic-workflows.

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