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California building permits & home builders

Live single-family residential permit data and the most active licensed builders across all 58 counties in California. Updated weekly from US Census Bureau Building Permits Survey + county public records.

Permits (12mo)
48,438
Statewide single-family
Counties tracked
58
All scored 0–100
Top market
Los Angeles
9,273 permits
Active builders
0
Top 10 ranked below

Top counties in California by permit volume

Most-active markets in the state over the last 12 months.

  1. Los Angeles County9,273
  2. Riverside County4,271
  3. San Diego County3,716
  4. Sacramento County3,217
  5. San Bernardino County2,884
  6. Orange County2,506
  7. Kern County2,417
  8. Placer County2,052
  9. San Joaquin County1,879
  10. Fresno County1,815

Top home builders in California

Most-active licensed builders across the state in the last 12 months.

Per-permit builder attribution not yet available for California. Census Bureau aggregate data is loaded.

All 58 counties in California

Alameda 1,016 Alpine 3 Amador 45 Butte 573 Calaveras 45 Colusa 17 Contra Costa 836 Del Norte 24 El Dorado 296 Fresno 1,815 Glenn 27 Humboldt 169 Imperial 114 Inyo 9 Kern 2,417 Kings 320 Lake 49 Lassen 13 Los Angeles 9,273 Madera 717 Marin 120 Mariposa 17 Mendocino 4 Merced 559 Modoc 10 Mono 27 Monterey 585 Napa 218 Nevada 148 Orange 2,506 Placer 2,052 Plumas 30 Riverside 4,271 Sacramento 3,217 San Benito 171 San Bernardino 2,884 San Diego 3,716 San Francisco 49 San Joaquin 1,879 San Luis Obispo 584 San Mateo 413 Santa Barbara 369 Santa Clara 1,530 Santa Cruz 120 Shasta 119 Sierra 0 Siskiyou 33 Solano 577 Sonoma 713 Stanislaus 818 Sutter 140 Tehama 107 Trinity 30 Tulare 1,395 Tuolumne 51 Ventura 439 Yolo 407 Yuba 352

For LBM & trade operators serving California

California is a tracked market for PermitFocus. If you're an LBM (lumber and building materials) operator, roofing contractor, HVAC company, plumber, concrete supplier, doors/windows dealer, paint distributor, or flooring contractor selling into new single-family construction — California's 48,438 permits/yr represent active accounts you could be pursuing.

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