16,681 real construction permits (Final + Issued) from a 20,267-record public records request to the City of Rancho Cordova, covering January 2020 through June 2026.
16,681 real construction permits analyzed - City of Rancho Cordova Public Records Request
Pre-boom baseline. The city before the surge.
+561% in one year. COVID suburban migration arrives.
Surge holds. Second straight year above 2,500.
Peak year. $462M in declared construction value.
Near-peak. No sign of cooling.
Partial through June. On pace for another 3,000+ year.
In 2021, real construction permit volume jumped 6.6x in a single year, from 265 to 1,751. COVID-era suburban migration hit Rancho Cordova like a freight train, and the city has never returned to pre-pandemic levels.
Final and Issued permits only. Residential, commercial, repair, solar, EV. 2026 is partial through June.
Residential has averaged over 83% of all real construction permits since 2021.
74% of all 20,267 records are Finaled. Final + Issued together represent real active construction (16,681 permits).
Rancho Cordova declared $462 million in construction value in 2024 alone: 7.9 times the $58.8 million declared in 2020. That is not population growth. That is a land rush.
Based on declared permit valuations. Actual market value of completed construction is higher.
While Sacramento debated housing policy, Rancho Cordova permitted 4,115 new production homes from 2020 through June 2026, peaking at 1,088 in 2024. Nearly every new home came wired for solar and EV charging: 1,074 combined permits since 2021.
"Production Home (New)" AP Type only (Final + Issued). Excludes custom builds and trade permits.
The built environment shifted: nearly every new home now comes wired for both.
Lennar alone accounts for 1,190 permits -- roughly 1 in every 14 real construction permits. Add K. Hovnanian at Jaeger Ranch (649) and Woodside (428), and the top three builders represent 2,267 permits, nearly 1 in 7 issued since 2020.
2020-2026 (Final + Issued). Excludes trade contractors (HVAC, plumbing, solar).
By total permits 2020-2026 (Final + Issued). Subdivisions grouped by development name.
Every Final or Issued permit, placed at its exact parcel by assessor parcel number (APN). 16,626 permits geocoded against the Sacramento County parcel layer, a 99.7% match, not an approximation. Press Play or drag the slider to watch the city fill in from 264 permits in 2020 to 16,626 by mid-2026. The heat shows precisely where construction concentrates: a faint cream dot is a lone parcel, deep navy is a block where permits stack. Click a labeled district to open Google Maps satellite.
Each heat point is a single permitted parcel, located by its assessor parcel number through the Sacramento County parcel layer, not an estimate. No street addresses are displayed. Color intensity reflects how many permits concentrate in an area; multi-permit parcels are capped so one busy site cannot dominate the scale. Labeled markers are named subdivisions; click one to open Google Maps satellite and verify on the ground. Final + Issued permits only (16,626 of 16,681 geocoded, 99.7%). 2026 covers January through June.
20,267 permit records obtained via a public records request to the City of Rancho Cordova, covering every permit from January 2020 through June 2026. All charts and maps use only Final + Issued permits (16,681 records) to reflect real construction activity. Fields include permit number, type, status, category, work type, apply/issued/finaled dates, square footage, builder, declared valuation, APN, address, and subdivision.
Raw Excel file cleaned and classified using Python (pandas): subdivision names normalized and grouped, builder strings standardized, date fields validated, trade contractors separated from homebuilders, and valuation outliers reviewed. Total build time from raw file to published dashboard: under 3 hours. This is the AI delivery advantage.