How the Mon Job Board reads LA permit data, and what to expect each week
Where the data comes from, what gets aggregated, and what the operator's read at the bottom of every Monday actually claims.
The Monday Job Board reads one primary source: the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety permit feed. It is published as a daily-refresh dataset on the city’s open-data portal. The Monday slot turns that feed into a three-to-five-permit signal a contractor can act on.
14-28d
Typical reporting lag on the LADBS permit feed. The Monday Job Board reads the last seven days inside that window.
Source: LA City Open Data, Building and Safety Permit Information · accessed 2026-05-20
How the signal gets built
From the LADBS feed to the Monday read
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Step 1
LADBS feed
Every issued residential + commercial permit, daily refresh.
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Step 2
Last-7-day window
Inside the 14-28 day reporting lag.
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Step 3
Cluster scan
Permits by trade, by city, against a four-week median.
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Step 4
Per-permit verify
Spot-check via LADBS permit-record lookup.
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Step 5
Operator read
One trade, one window, with count and date range.
Source: LADBS permit lookup · accessed 2026-05-20
What each row in the feed carries
Each permit row carries a permit number, an estimated valuation bucket, a work-class code, the city or neighborhood, and the date the permit was issued. The Monday slot reads the last seven days of issuance and looks for clustering: same trade, same city, above the trailing four-week median. Per-permit verification, when needed, runs against the LADBS permit-record lookup.
The slot is a leading indicator, not a recap. When ADU permits in the San Gabriel Valley cluster two weeks running, the demand is sustained. When kitchen-remodel permits in a single city pull above their trailing four-week median, the marketing window is open this month.