Long Beach, CA Permit Pulse — Week of 2026-07-10

80 new building permits were filed in Long Beach, CA over the trailing 7 days, with $0 in declared construction value. Filing volume is the clearest public signal of how busy — or backed up — a city's building department is right now. Live data from official municipal permit-issuance feeds.

By Marcus Reeves · Updated 2026-07-10 · Last permit logged 2026-07-10

Permits filed · this week

80

▼ 62.3% vs prior 7 days

Declared construction value

$0

Prior 7-day comparison

212

permits filed previous week

Long Beach permit review backlog

Of 1,363 Long Beach permits with a published review status, 484 (35.5%) are still in the review or intake queue — the live backlog. Breakdown by current status:

Permit statusPermitsShare
Active53139.0%
Pending48435.5%
Permit1198.7%
Reactivate997.3%
Certificate936.8%
Inactive312.3%
Withdrawn20.1%
Denied20.1%

Is the Long Beach building department backed up?

Permit-filing volume is the best public proxy for permitting load: the more permits a building department takes in, the heavier its review queue. Long Beach, CA logged 80 permits in the last 7 days versus 212 the week before — a 62.3% decrease, so intake is easing. This tracker refreshes weekly from official municipal feeds, so it reflects the current pace rather than a stale snapshot.

Top contractors this week

#ContractorPermits (7d)Declared value
1 METRICOM NETWORKS 2
2 A&I AIR CONDITIONING SERVICES 1
3 ALFREDO VENEGAS 1
4 ALICIA LINGLE 1
5 A&D HERRERA'S ELECTRIC, INC 1

What's being built this week

Permit typeCountShare
Contracting – Building 19 23.8%
Contracting - Misc. 10 12.5%
Contracting – Roofing 9 11.2%
Catering/Party Consulting 6 7.5%
Contracting – Electrical 4 5.0%

Recent permit filings

DateTypeAddressContractorValue
2026-07-10 Sidewalk Vending - Food 661 NEWPORT AVE SIDEWALK VENDING TIERRA JOHNSON
2026-07-10 Food Retail Store 211 CHERRY AVE DOLLAR TREE STORES INC
2026-07-10 Private Patrol Operator OUTSIDE LONG BEACH 2102 COTTER ST SANTA ANA, CA 92706 ISAAC PELAEZ
2026-07-10 Catering/Party Consulting 114 POMONA AVE EMERALD & RUBY EVENT PLANNING
2026-07-10 Psychology 5199 E PACIFIC COAST HWY 402 CHRISTINA YUM
Methodology. Data sourced from Long Beach's official municipal permit-issuance feed and refreshed daily. Permits are counted by issue date. Declared construction value reflects what the applicant declared on the permit application and is filtered to remove obvious data-entry errors (values under $1,000 or above $50M are excluded from totals). "This week" means the trailing 7 days through 2026-07-10.

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