From 2018 to 2025, the City of Los Angeles issued 68,900 building permits for ADUs and 30,597 ADUs were finished. In 2025: 12,334 permits, 5,912 finished. An ADU finished in one year was often permitted in an earlier one.
Source: California HCD, Housing Element Annual Progress Reports, read November 12, 2026. Counts are each city's own report to the State.
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The City of Los Angeles issued 12,334 building permits for ADUs in 2025, 3 times the 2018 count of 4,079.
Source: California HCD, Housing Element Annual Progress Reports, read November 12, 2026. Counts are each city's own report to the State.
After Los Angeles (12,334), the cities that issued the most ADU permits in Los Angeles County in 2025 were Glendale (695), Long Beach (644), Lakewood (498), Downey (244), Burbank (241).
Source: California HCD, Housing Element Annual Progress Reports, read November 12, 2026. Counts are each city's own report to the State.
5,912 ADUs were finished in the City of Los Angeles in 2025, and 30,597 since 2018.
Source: California HCD, Housing Element Annual Progress Reports, read November 12, 2026. Counts are each city's own report to the State.