Sacramento, CA Permit Pulse — Week of 2026-07-31

617 new building permits were filed in Sacramento, CA over the trailing 7 days, with $34,143,167 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 2026-07-31 · Last permit logged 2026-07-30

Permits filed · this week

617

▼ 6.2% vs prior 7 days

Declared construction value

$34,143,167

$151,075 avg per permit

Prior 7-day comparison

658

permits filed previous week

Sacramento permit review backlog

Of 7,094 Sacramento permits with a published review status, 876 (12.3%) are still in the review or intake queue — the live backlog. Breakdown by current status:

Permit statusPermitsShare
Issued3,13344.2%
Submittal Pending Review1,32718.7%
Applied84711.9%
Ready-to-Issue6128.6%
Plan Check Target5868.3%
Finaled1882.7%
Plan Check Wait470.7%
Approved410.6%

Is the Sacramento 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. Sacramento, CA logged 617 permits in the last 7 days versus 658 the week before — a 6.2% 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 NORTH VALLEY LLC 11 $318,622
2 JAGUAR HEATING & AIR INC 9 $110,376
3 LENNAR HOMES 8 $3,300,436
4 ILUM SOLAR 8 $258,358
5 BONNEY PLUMBING LLC 7 $74,955

What's being built this week

Permit typeCountShare
Residential HVAC 113 18.3%
Residential Plan Review Submittal 55 8.9%
Residential Minor 49 7.9%
Residential Reroof 48 7.8%
Residential Solar 48 7.8%

Recent permit filings

DateTypeAddressContractorValue
2026-07-30 Residential HVAC 1158 SWANSTON DR ALL YEAR INC $13,603
2026-07-30 Residential HVAC 7541 MYRTLE VISTA AVE BARRAZA HEATING & AIR LLC $17,050
2026-07-30 Residential HVAC 3257 IBERIAN DR A COOL AIR INC $12,950
2026-07-30 Residential Electrical 3181 LEMITAR WAY A B T PLUMBING & DRAIN SERVICE INC $7,259
2026-07-30 Residential HVAC 701 CANDELA CIR BARRAZA HEATING & AIR LLC $17,613
Methodology. Data sourced from Sacramento'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 2026-07-31.

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