California building permits issued
Monthly permits for new privately-owned residential construction in the California jurisdictions PermitBase covers — housing units authorized, buildings, and construction valuation. This is Census survey data on new-home construction, not total permit volume (commercial permits and remodels are not counted).
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey (BPS) · data through 2026-08
State summary
State building-activity summary
- Latest month (2026-08)
- 4,959 units
- Year to date
- 41,187 units
- Coverage
- 90 jurisdictions
$1,244.4M valuation latest month · $9,311.6M valuation year to date · 68 of 90 jurisdictions reported the latest month. Sum of covered PermitBase jurisdictions only (not a full-state total). County-level jurisdictions overlapping covered cities are excluded to avoid double counting. Non-reporting jurisdictions are omitted from sums, never zero-filled.
Monthly trend
Units authorized per month across the jurisdictions PermitBase covers. Months reported by only some offices are marked, because a partially-reported month is not a quieter month.
Permits by jurisdiction
Housing units authorized for new residential construction. Ranked by trailing-12-month units; jurisdictions that did not report to the Census Bureau show “no data reported” — never assumed to be zero.
| # | Jurisdiction | Latest month units | Trailing 12 mo units | YTD units |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Los Angeles | 2,478 | 18,678 | 14,164 |
| 2 | San Diego | 258 | 5,986 | 2,985 |
| 3 | San Jose | 83 | 3,943 | 2,425 |
| 4 | Sacramento | 95 | 2,116 | 1,471 |
| 5 | San Francisco | 44 | 1,654 | 1,048 |
| 6 | Fresno | 116 | 1,478(11 mo) | 830 |
| 7 | Fontana | 16 | 1,194 | 995 |
| 8 | Elk Grove | 38 | 1,038 | 410 |
| 9 | Oakland | 22 | 1,007 | 822 |
| 10 | Roseville | 47 | 951 | 598 |
| 11 | Chula Vista | 24 | 910 | 823 |
| 12 | Visalia | 49 | 899 | 636 |
| 13 | Irvine | 37 | 847(10 mo) | 1,210 |
| 14 | Manteca | 92 | 810 | 565 |
| 15 | Oceanside | 262 | 766 | 684 |
| 16 | Santa Clara | 2 | 741 | 367 |
| 17 | Fremont | 3 | 701 | 330 |
| 18 | Santa Rosa | 26 | 699 | 230 |
| 19 | Modesto | no data reported | 675(10 mo) | 460 |
| 20 | Menifee | 41 | 597(10 mo) | 446 |
| 21 | Ontario | 78 | 595(8 mo) | 791 |
| 22 | Clovis | 23 | 586 | 466 |
| 23 | Palmdale | 17 | 480 | 430 |
| 24 | Folsom | 12 | 445 | 181 |
| 25 | Murrieta | 11 | 433 | 62 |
| 26 | Indio | 20 | 425 | 210 |
| 27 | Santa Monica | 328 | 412(2 mo) | 569 |
| 28 | Pasadena | 8 | 400 | 93 |
| 29 | Garden Grove | no data reported | 398(11 mo) | 252 |
| 30 | Yuba City | 14 | 367(10 mo) | 139 |
| 31 | Hesperia | 26 | 352 | 213 |
| 32 | San Marcos | 0 | 349 | 189 |
| 33 | Vacaville | 33 | 330 | 222 |
| 34 | Merced | 27 | 325 | 129 |
| 35 | Antioch | 170 | 316 | 307 |
| 36 | Stockton | 20 | 309 | 214 |
| 37 | Temecula | 21 | 275 | 231 |
| 38 | Rancho Cucamonga | 7 | 273 | 199 |
| 39 | Pomona | 28 | 272 | 116 |
| 40 | Riverside | 14 | 269(9 mo) | 458 |
| 41 | Santa Clarita | 26 | 266 | 201 |
| 42 | Lancaster | 37 | 253 | 143 |
| 43 | Chino | 18 | 252 | 208 |
| 44 | Fullerton | 8 | 249 | 89 |
| 45 | Moreno Valley | 5 | 249(11 mo) | 188 |
| 46 | Escondido | no data reported | 241(11 mo) | 184 |
| 47 | Daly City | 0 | 233(7 mo) | 16 |
| 48 | Salinas | 16 | 231 | 151 |
| 49 | Tracy | 21 | 204 | 180 |
| 50 | Santa Maria | 56 | 191(6 mo) | 336 |
| 51 | El Cajon | no data reported | 185(8 mo) | 173 |
| 52 | Anaheim | 32 | 179 | 137 |
| 53 | Carlsbad | 6 | 173 | 141 |
| 54 | Napa | 44 | 170 | 120 |
| 55 | Corona | no data reported | 160(8 mo) | 203 |
| 56 | Fairfield | 3 | 150 | 119 |
| 57 | Victorville | no data reported | 121(4 mo) | 259 |
| 58 | Turlock | 9 | 109 | 82 |
| 59 | San Bernardino | 0 | 102 | 17 |
| 60 | Sunnyvale | 0 | 97 | 39 |
| 61 | Richmond | 14 | 91 | 70 |
| 62 | Whittier | 1 | 86 | 80 |
| 63 | Santa Ana | no data reported | 82(3 mo) | no data reported |
| 64 | Orange | no data reported | 72(7 mo) | 52 |
| 65 | Redding | 8 | 70(10 mo) | 73 |
| 66 | Concord | 3 | 66 | 47 |
| 67 | Hayward | 19 | 63 | 45 |
| 68 | Livermore | 24 | 56 | 51 |
| 69 | Alameda | 2 | 44 | 22 |
| 70 | Oxnard | 2 | 44 | 33 |
| 71 | Vallejo | 1 | 41 | 33 |
| 72 | El Monte | 12 | 38(2 mo) | 148 |
| 73 | Glendale | no data reported | 32(2 mo) | no data reported |
| 74 | Torrance | 2 | 32(11 mo) | 23 |
| 75 | San Mateo | 0 | 31(11 mo) | 30 |
| 76 | Citrus Heights | no data reported | 23(6 mo) | 21 |
| 77 | Mountain View | no data reported | 22(5 mo) | 48 |
| 78 | Burbank | no data reported | 20(2 mo) | 52 |
| 79 | Huntington Beach | no data reported | 19(1 mo) | 169 |
| 80 | Carson | 0 | 16 | 3 |
| 81 | Mission Viejo | 0 | 8 | 2 |
| — | Bakersfield | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Berkeley | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Hemet | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Inglewood | no data reported | no data reported | 104 |
| — | Long Beach | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Newport Beach | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
| — | Redwood City | no data reported | no data reported | 80 |
| — | Santa Barbara | no data reported | no data reported | 45 |
| — | West Covina | no data reported | no data reported | no data reported |
County-wide rows join the Census county file and include every permit office in that county (incorporated cities included); their published estimates may include Census imputation for non-reporting offices. Every figure on this page traces to a specific Census BPS source file — see the PermitBase activity dataset manifest.
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