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Home Remodel Cost in Sacramento County (unincorporated), CA: what the permits say

How much does home remodel cost in Sacramento County? The usual remodel, addition & repair job filed with Sacramento County is $22,464, from 2,906 priced permits (October 2023 through September 2026); the middle half of firms file between $15,000 and $45,200. A filed value is what the contractor wrote on the permit, not a quote or the final bill.

$22,464usual filed value
$15,000–$45,200middle half of firms' usual jobs
2,906priced permits (99% of 2,933)
864firms on file
85days, permit issue to final
Sep 2026records through

How much does home remodel cost in Sacramento County?

The usual remodel, addition & repair job filed with Sacramento County is $22,464, from 2,906 priced permits, October 2023 through September 2026. The middle half of firms usually file between $15,000 and $45,200. Half of jobs were filed for less, half for more. A filed value is what the contractor wrote on the permit, not a quote or the final bill. A remodel, addition & repair permit here usually takes 85 days from issue to final inspection. How long permits take →

What the spread looks like

Approximately, from each firm's own spread: every firm's range of filed values, weighted by its 2,906 priced permits across 863 firms, pooled into one. Half of Sacramento County (unincorporated) remodel, addition & repair permits were filed between $11,600 and $50,900.

PercentileFiled valueReads as
10th$6,2001 in 10 permits filed below
25th$11,6001 in 4 filed below
50th$23,200the middle permit
75th$50,9001 in 4 filed above
90th$104,0001 in 10 filed above

Busiest firms and what they usually charge

Top 10 by permits in the last 12 months. Usual is each firm's middle filed value; middle half is the range its middle half of jobs were filed in. Busy is not the same as careful: pick what you value to build a list.

FirmPermitsLast 12 moUsualMiddle halfFinished
Kitchen Mart Inc15659$41,325$23,349–$67,11899.5%
Viceroy Improvement LLC7156$11,672$5,559–$18,77768.7%
Yancey Company7232$32,234$21,769–$53,70096.7%
Reliable Residential Improvements Inc7129$13,200$12,500–$15,00091.0%
America's Vinyl Exteriors Inc6929$14,309$7,802–$21,18698.9%
GVD Renovations Inc5622$22,801$16,170–$44,38098.7%
Good Life Construction Inc6021$43,988$14,813–$90,75083.3%
Dinwiddie-Hines Construction Inc4119$39,248$14,359–$81,27891.6%
Rebuildit1514$16,927$10,403–$26,967—
Safe Step Walk in Tub LLC5313$9,500$9,50092.3%

Why filed values run low or high

  • The 10 busiest firms usually file $22,801; the 819 firms with fewer than 10 permits usually file $29,500.
  • One permit type covers small and large jobs: 1 in 10 remodel, addition & repair permits is filed under $6,200 and 1 in 10 over $104,000, 17 times as much.
  • 99.1% of the 2,933 permits carry a value; the 27 without one are left out of every figure here.

Is your quote normal? Compare it with 2,906 filed values

Line your quote up against the file. In Sacramento County (unincorporated), 1 in 10 remodel, addition & repair filed values sit under $6,200, the middle half between $11,600 and $50,900, and 1 in 10 over $104,000.

  • $135,000Above $104,000: higher than 9 in 10 filed values for this work in Sacramento County (unincorporated).
  • $22,464Right at the usual $22,464: in the middle of the file.
  • $4,300Below $6,200: lower than 9 in 10. Ask what the quote leaves out.

When to schedule a home remodel in Sacramento County

Sacramento County files the fewest remodel, addition & repair permits in November (71 against an average month of 100) and the most in August (120). If you can choose, ask for quotes in a quiet month. We have no prices by month, so this is about crews' schedules, not a discount. When each trade is busiest in Sacramento County →

How these numbers are made

Source: Sacramento County building permits on single-family, duplex and townhouse homes in the unincorporated county (the County's Accela permit layer). The window is October 2023 through September 2026; a permit filed after that isn't here yet.

Usual is the middle permit: half were filed for less, half for more. Only permits with a filed value count; a value of $0 or none is left out.

The spread is approximate: we keep seven points of each firm's own range of filed values, not every permit, and pool them.

Nobody paid to be on this page and nobody can. How the records work in Sacramento County (unincorporated) →

Common questions

  • How many quotes should I get for a remodel, addition & repair job in Sacramento County (unincorporated)?At least three. In the permit record the middle half of Sacramento County (unincorporated) remodel, addition & repair firms usually file between $15,000 and $45,200 a job, so two ordinary firms can sit 3.0 times apart and both be normal for Sacramento County (unincorporated). A third quote shows which one is the outlier. Filed values are what contractors wrote on permits, not quotes, so use them to judge the spread, not to price your own job.
  • What range is normal for remodel, addition & repair jobs in Sacramento County (unincorporated)?Half of permits were filed between $11,600 and $50,900; 8 in 10 between $6,200 and $104,000. These are approximate, pooled from each firm's own spread.
  • How much do remodeling contractors charge in Sacramento County?The usual remodel, addition & repair job is filed at $22,464; the middle half of firms usually file between $15,000 and $45,200. The 10 firms with the most permits in the last 12 months usually file $22,801, about the same as the usual. See every firm's usual job →
  • Why do prices I see online differ from $22,464?$22,464 is the construction value contractors wrote on Sacramento County permits. Online figures are usually all-in ranges whose scope you can't check (design, fees, site work), and our file mixes small and large jobs of this type in one number. Use the spread above to see where a quote sits.
  • How much is the remodel, addition & repair permit fee in Sacramento County?Sacramento County sets permit fees in Sacramento County Code chapter 16.90, Construction Permit Fees (read October 2026). The chapter sets the fee schedule (last amended May 2026); it names no flat fee per trade, so we don't compute one. Ask the permit office for the fee on a job filed at about $22,464, the usual remodel, addition & repair value here.
  • How many remodel, addition & repair firms work in Sacramento County (unincorporated)?864 firms appear on the file; 420 pulled at least one permit in the last 12 months.
  • Where does this data come from?Sacramento County building permits on single-family, duplex and townhouse homes in the unincorporated county (the County's Accela permit layer), read October 2026. How the records work in Sacramento County (unincorporated) →

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