Palmdale, CA Permit Pulse — Week of 2026-08-03

101 new building permits were filed in Palmdale, CA over the trailing 7 days, with $24,372 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 2026-08-03 · Last permit logged 2026-08-02

Permits filed · this week

101

▼ 27.3% vs prior 7 days

Declared construction value

$24,372

$12,186 avg per permit

Prior 7-day comparison

139

permits filed previous week

Palmdale permit review backlog

Of 685 Palmdale permits with a published review status, 36 (5.3%) are still in the review or intake queue — the live backlog. Breakdown by current status:

Permit statusPermitsShare
Open28942.2%
Issued18026.3%
Payment Received9914.5%
Fees Invoiced334.8%
Registered294.2%
In Review284.1%
Incomplete121.8%
Additional Info Required81.2%

Is the Palmdale 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. Palmdale, CA logged 101 permits in the last 7 days versus 139 the week before — a 27.3% 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 H A BUILDER GROUP LLC 7
2 SUNRUN 6
3 STEADFAST HEATING AND AIR 5
4 P O BOX 950555 3
5 HOMELINK CONSTRUCTION LLC 2

What's being built this week

Permit typeCountShare
Solar App+ - ALL Residential 15 14.9%
Rental Registration 13 12.9%
Commercial Permit 13 12.9%
Mechanical Permit 12 11.9%
Build Permit 7 6.9%
Methodology. Data sourced from Palmdale'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 2026-08-03.

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