Building permits in Los Angeles, August 2026
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Los Angeles’s open-data portal lists 5,557 building permits issued for August 2026, up 4.2% on a year earlier. The 12-month average is 5,308 a month.
A permit is permission to build, not a building: some are never used, and one large project can weigh more than a hundred small ones. The count includes every size of job the city permits, from a repair to a tower.
The heavier line is the 12-month average, which takes out the seasonal swing; compare a month with the same month a year earlier rather than with the month before. The newest month is left out until it is complete.
Source: Los Angeles Open Data, building permits issued by Building and Safety, counted by month. Auto-generated each build.