Recreation room addition cost in Los Angeles: what owners paid (2023 survey)
Los Angeles owners paid a median $4,998 for a recreation room addition or renovation: $5,002 below the U.S. median, third-highest of 4 big metros (Census Bureau, 2023).
What Los Angeles owners paid
$4,998
This is historical spending: work done in about 2021 to 2023 on owner-occupied homes, reported in the 2023 survey.
How Los Angeles compares
- U.S. median, same work
- $10,000
- Rank, highest first
- 3 of 4
Los Angeles: $4,998. The big-metro medians run from $3,000 to $20,000.
11 of the 15 metros have no published figure for this work, so the rank counts the other 4.
- Dallas$20,000
- New York City$6,000
- Los Angeles$4,998
- Atlanta$3,000
No published figure: Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Miami, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Riverside, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC.
What it covers
Adding or renovating a recreation or family room.
The Census category is “Recreation Room” within “Room Additions and Renovations”: what Los Angeles-area homeowners told the Census Bureau they paid, every size of job together.
Before you compare quotes
Ask every contractor to price the same scope, in writing. What room area, access, systems and finish level are included?
Measure your job with the material calculator. Then put the quotes in your project budget worksheet to see each one's scope beside its price.