Permit values
Remodeling work cost in Sacramento
Declared value is what the contractor reported to the building department, which is what the permit fee is calculated from. It is usually the contract value excluding tax, and it runs below a retail quote. Treat it as the floor of the market, not the price. Why the permit and the quote disagree.
What the spread looks like
Every valued permit in the window, grouped by declared value. The last bar holds everything above the 95th percentile, so one unusually large job does not flatten the rest.
By city
| City | Permits | Median | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sacramento | 1,489 | $43,000 | $14,000 – $370,184 |
| Antelope | 157 | $334,697 | $28,000 – $405,233 |
| Carmichael | 142 | $36,420 | $15,774 – $161,936 |
| Fair Oaks | 134 | $26,015 | $12,000 – $77,941 |
| Orangevale | 78 | $36,126 | $19,075 – $114,716 |
| North Highlands | 42 | $17,250 | $9,500 – $34,389 |
Month by month
| Month | Permits valued | Median |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | 790 | $43,810 |
| September 2026 | 803 | $42,280 |
| October 2026 | 631 | $40,000 |
Complete calendar months only. The current month is left out until it ends.
Who pulled the most remodel & new construction permits in Sacramento
By permit count over the same window, out of the contractors the building departments name.
- 1LENNAR HOMES OF CALIFORNIA LLC228 (14.6%)
- 2TAYLOR MORRISON SERVICES INC80 (5.1%)
- 3KB HOME SACRAMENTO INC51 (3.3%)
- 4MERITAGE HOMES OF CALIFORNIA INC49 (3.1%)
- 5SACRAMENTO WINDOW & DOOR LLC44 (2.8%)
- 6HOME DEPOT U S A INC42 (2.7%)
- 7CRITICAL PATH RECONSTRUCTION INC31 (2%)
- 8GROUNDWORKS CALIFORNIA LLC23 (1.5%)
- 9D.R. HORTON CA2 INC23 (1.5%)
- 10KITCHEN MART INC22 (1.4%)
Method
Permit Dawn reads the building departments in Sacramento County permits, updated daily, with typed re-roof, solar and pool categories and contractor names, plus City of Sacramento issued permits. every night and keeps every residential permit they publish. This page counts the remodel & new construction permits issued in August 2026, September 2026, October 2026 — 2,242 of them, 2,238 carrying a declared value (100%). Duplicates and permits a city later re-published are excluded, along with values below $500 and above $2,000,000, which are placeholders rather than jobs. Medians and quartiles, not averages: a handful of very large jobs would drag a mean somewhere no homeowner would recognise.