Water heater replacement cost in Los Angeles, CA: what 34 permits declare
The median declared cost of water heater replacement on Los Angeles building permits filed 2024–2026 is $1,000. Half of all permits fall between $501 and $2,376. The national sourced whole-project range on our water heater replacement cost guide is $882–$1,825.
Median declared cost
$1,000
34 permits
Middle half
$501–$2,376
p25–p75
Full span after trimming
$501–$25,000
$500 floor, top 1% removed
How to read this
These figures are the project values applicants declared to the Los Angeles permitting office, which uses them to calculate permit fees. Declared values tend to sit below the final invoice, and jobs done without a permit are not counted at all. Read the median as a floor for a permitted water heater replacement job in Los Angeles, then check it against the sourced national range and get local quotes.
Where the data comes from
Source: Los Angeles open-data portal, dataset pi9x-tg5x. Filter: residential permits issued 2024-09-09 to 2026-09-09 whose description matcheswork_desc like '%water heater%' OR work_desc like '%Water heater%'. Compiled 2026-09-09. Full method on the methodology page; every cell is in the CSV download.