Nearly 28,000 house-project jobs were filed in Miami-Dade in the last 12 months, and the same few ZIP codes keep showing up at the top.
If you are planning work on your house, it helps to know what your neighbors are doing. Miami-Dade keeps a public record of every filed job, and in the 12 months to October 2026 those records add up to a clear picture of where the work is happening and what kind of work it is.
In the last 12 months, the county recorded about 28,000 house-project jobs in total. Roofing led by a wide margin, with 10,823 jobs — no surprise in a region where hurricane codes and sun exposure keep roofs on a short replacement cycle. Electrical work came next at 7,220 jobs, followed by plumbing at 4,977 and air conditioning at 2,590. Pools accounted for 1,651 jobs and solar for 831.
The order matters less than the scale. This is a county where thousands of homes are under some kind of active project at any given time.
A few areas stand out on almost every list. ZIP 33176 shows up near the top in nearly every kind of work: 318 electrical jobs, 229 plumbing jobs, 148 air-conditioning jobs, and 75 pool jobs in the last 12 months. If you live there, you are in one of the busiest home-improvement markets in the county.
ZIP 33186 had the most roofing jobs of any ZIP code, at 612. ZIP 33165 was close behind with 549 roofing jobs, plus 98 air-conditioning jobs. These are places where crews are working on streets like yours right now.
Living in a high-activity ZIP code works in your favor in three ways. First, more local crews are active nearby, so you have more contractors to choose from. Second, there are more recent records to check — you can see which companies have actually filed jobs on houses like yours, on streets near yours. Third, competition is real: contractors working in a busy area know homeowners there can compare.
It also means you should look at a contractor's local record before you look at their price. In a market this active, there is no reason to hire a company with no visible recent filings in your area when plenty of companies have a long local trail. If you are not sure how to do that, start with how to read a contractor's permit history — it takes minutes and tells you more than any review page.
If your ZIP code does not appear near the top of these lists, do not read it as a problem. Quieter areas still get plenty of work; it is simply spread across more streets and fewer jobs at a time. In that case, the report looks a little wider — pulling in nearby ZIP codes so you still have a real set of local jobs to compare against — and that is fine. A contractor who filed solid work two neighborhoods over is a legitimate reference; the codes, inspectors, and building conditions are largely the same.
The value of these records is the same whether your area is busy or quiet: you stop guessing. You can see what work costs in your part of the county, which companies are doing it, and how often.
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