How long do building permits take in San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood?

In the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco, of the 477 building permits filed from October 2025 through September 2026 that have been issued, half were issued within 0 days, down from 4 days a year earlier. Of the 595 permits filed from October 2023 through September 2024 that have reached final sign-off, half did so within 127 days of being issued, up from 84 days the year before.

From the city’s permit records, by the quarter each permit was filed. Data as of 8 October 2026. How to cite this · How this is calculated

How long until a permit is issued, and until final sign-off?

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At a glance

Stage	Permits filed	Permits counted	Median days	Counted a year earlier	Median a year earlier
Filed to permit issued	October 2025 through September 2026	477 issued	0	869 issued	4
Permit issued to final sign-off	October 2023 through September 2024	595 finished	127	474 finished	84

“Counted” is the permits the median was taken over: those filed in the window that have been issued, or that have reached final sign-off. The first stage covers the last four complete quarters, since most permits are issued within the year. The second covers the last four quarters that ended two or more years ago, so that most of their permits have had time to finish. Citywide, the median was 0 days to issue and 98 days from issue to final over the same quarters.

Every quarter since 2000

Quarter filed	Filed	Issued	Median days to issue	Slowest 10%	Reached final	Median days issue to final	Slowest 10%	Never finaled	Settled
2026-Q4	12	6	0	2	0			0	too recent
2026-Q3	108	76	0	29	20	10	25	0	too recent
2026-Q2	168	136	0	36	68	29	98	0	too recent
2026-Q1	122	103	0	42	66	40	150	0	too recent
2025-Q4	181	162	0	76	91	67	244	0	too recent
2025-Q3	200	185	0	133	120	36	291	0	too recent
2025-Q2	272	246	7	315	167	80	376	0	too recent
2025-Q1	278	267	21	398	206	140	356	0	too recent
2024-Q4	187	171	1	70	107	69	285	0	too recent
2024-Q3	275	258	10	62	222	118	264	0	yes
2024-Q2	235	228	23	175	186	206	544	0	yes
2024-Q1	130	117	0	83	90	91	412	0	yes
2023-Q4	164	140	0	134	97	84	436	3	yes
2023-Q3	181	164	0	72	114	88	416	48	yes
2023-Q2	210	195	1	73	156	72	408	41	yes
2023-Q1	142	126	0	150	97	117	611	29	yes
2022-Q4	195	165	0	301	107	70	282	60	yes
2022-Q3	218	168	1	197	125	199	579	44	yes
2022-Q2	186	154	1	306	115	131	473	47	yes
2022-Q1	163	137	0	181	101	149	447	48	yes
2021-Q4	143	127	6	183	99	151	520	37	yes
2021-Q3	160	149	0	160	111	128	617	33	yes
2021-Q2	167	153	15	153	109	168	637	46	yes
2021-Q1	175	142	43	317	101	204	843	44	yes
2020-Q4	180	156	36	419	99	174	784	60	yes
2020-Q3	183	160	24	344	104	94	584	58	yes
2020-Q2	59	53	9	325	36	110	353	15	yes
2020-Q1	183	162	0	215	82	155	665	76	yes
2019-Q4	278	197	0	291	114	138	858	129	yes
2019-Q3	314	275	0	101	179	131	492	99	yes
2019-Q2	247	213	0	183	142	142	553	75	yes
2019-Q1	237	218	0	133	136	94	736	73	yes
2018-Q4	244	225	0	161	144	72	405	66	yes
2018-Q3	265	241	0	113	140	98	610	91	yes
2018-Q2	279	251	0	129	171	146	526	71	yes
2018-Q1	261	237	0	203	153	118	435	77	yes
2017-Q4	331	307	4	59	210	212	735	95	yes
2017-Q3	261	235	0	111	150	102	553	85	yes
2017-Q2	237	225	0	135	150	124	498	72	yes
2017-Q1	207	188	0	159	119	137	660	64	yes
2016-Q4	213	197	0	150	124	144	566	67	yes
2016-Q3	218	211	1	324	142	103	558	61	yes
2016-Q2	214	200	0	97	123	170	742	69	yes
2016-Q1	225	210	1	403	147	105	603	61	yes
2015-Q4	357	330	7	303	250	426	1,134	80	yes
2015-Q3	202	183	0	126	124	154	608	55	yes
2015-Q2	196	180	0	175	122	186	915	50	yes
2015-Q1	207	198	1	263	131	186	899	56	yes
2014-Q4	200	187	0	128	135	138	869	44	yes
2014-Q3	205	196	0	269	118	112	752	62	yes
2014-Q2	218	194	0	136	123	130	429	58	yes
2014-Q1	193	185	0	54	109	101	468	56	yes
2013-Q4	184	175	0	150	111	125	652	53	yes
2013-Q3	232	226	0	65	143	125	963	67	yes
2013-Q2	219	211	0	43	147	85	415	53	yes
2013-Q1	200	194	0	58	139	83	441	43	yes
2012-Q4	221	205	0	49	130	97	436	65	yes
2012-Q3	226	217	0	62	145	102	462	62	yes
2012-Q2	179	174	0	44	117	86	362	47	yes
2012-Q1	253	248	3	40	109	132	829	117	yes
2011-Q4	180	177	0	104	118	126	542	38	yes
2011-Q3	196	187	0	53	121	92	519	47	yes
2011-Q2	137	132	0	11	79	85	363	41	yes
2011-Q1	174	166	0	62	94	140	977	51	yes
2010-Q4	148	138	0	82	84	74	725	43	yes
2010-Q3	175	161	0	57	98	95	785	44	yes
2010-Q2	204	188	0	33	109	81	388	60	yes
2010-Q1	156	145	0	51	97	146	699	33	yes
2009-Q4	153	147	0	261	98	155	1,260	36	yes
2009-Q3	183	174	0	101	105	112	486	50	yes
2009-Q2	170	157	0	53	95	105	363	44	yes
2009-Q1	147	139	0	10	90	78	360	31	yes
2008-Q4	329	321	0	6	123	116	380	163	yes
2008-Q3	230	224	0	43	114	122	548	82	yes
2008-Q2	211	200	0	15	120	188	393	52	yes
2008-Q1	193	179	0	29	86	86	388	68	yes
2007-Q4	348	333	0	6	85	122	369	223	yes
2007-Q3	201	194	0	93	90	84	475	65	yes
2007-Q2	311	301	0	46	178	160	578	66	yes
2007-Q1	217	208	0	45	125	189	463	48	yes
2006-Q4	201	190	0	207	98	76	575	41	yes
2006-Q3	228	220	0	63	105	104	430	39	yes
2006-Q2	211	200	0	78	109	111	316	45	yes
2006-Q1	202	192	0	43	108	90	475	31	yes
2005-Q4	216	205	0	1,031	119	192	472	36	yes
2005-Q3	228	218	0	242	116	188	463	32	yes
2005-Q2	222	217	0	13	138	108	308	19	yes
2005-Q1	157	155	0	103	69	151	377	35	yes
2004-Q4	238	197	0	907	111	208	937	36	yes
2004-Q3	182	178	0	20	98	72	334	36	yes
2004-Q2	212	209	0	202	94	93	447	38	yes
2004-Q1	156	149	0	99	85	84	382	15	yes
2003-Q4	189	185	0	69	94	92	363	26	yes
2003-Q3	189	185	0	81	106	90	413	27	yes
2003-Q2	235	226	0	70	139	104	386	22	yes
2003-Q1	246	242	0	24	145	119	284	24	yes
2002-Q4	234	218	0	117	129	78	309	19	yes
2002-Q3	209	201	0	321	111	89	340	32	yes
2002-Q2	253	240	0	71	147	100	295	16	yes
2002-Q1	238	231	0	42	119	63	433	6	yes
2001-Q4	425	415	0	13	255	62	220	4	yes
2001-Q3	336	324	0	77	152	94	459	1	yes
2001-Q2	170	161	0	350	82	124	575	2	yes
2001-Q1	221	205	0	131	78	110	338	5	yes
2000-Q4	194	183	0	144	72	130	382	1	yes
2000-Q3	281	271	0	89	120	119	321	2	yes
2000-Q2	210	197	0	107	91	133	426	0	yes
2000-Q1	271	249	0	85	113	147	449	0	yes

A blank median means fewer than 5 permits behind it: issued permits for the first stage, and for the second, finished permits whose final is dated after their issue (a permit never issued has no span). “Slowest 10%” is the 90th percentile: one permit in ten took at least this long. Download the table as CSV or JSON; both carry the source, license and data date.

What the numbers leave out

4,787 of the 22,817 building permits filed since 2000 (21%) have no final sign-off 3 years after they were issued or, if never issued, filed. A median over finished permits understates the real wait: the permits that never finish are not in it. Citywide, 798 of 801,386 permits since 2000 (0%) name no neighborhood and count in the city's figures only. Inspection records are not yet included: “final sign-off” is the city’s own completion date on the permit.

Project types in San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood

Shown apart, with their own page here: bathroom remodel (2,453 filed, 1,694 finished; contractors); kitchen remodel (1,911 filed, 1,279 finished; contractors); stairs (1,180 filed, 748 finished; contractors); deck (707 filed, 429 finished; contractors). Other types: 18,226 permits.

Nearby neighborhoods

Portola, Bernal Heights, Visitacion Valley; all of San Francisco; every neighborhood compared.

How this is calculated

Approved means the city issued the permit: the permit’s issue date. The first stage counts days from the filing date to the issue date, over permits issued on or after they were filed. Final sign-off means the city’s own status for the permit is “complete”, with its completion date; this site does not yet read inspection records, so the inspection date is not a separate stage. The second stage counts days from the issue date to the completion date, over permits that have reached it.

Permits are grouped by the quarter they were filed. A quarter’s median counts only its permits that have finished the stage, so recent quarters look faster than they will end up: their slow permits have not finished yet. Quarters that ended two or more years ago are marked settled; the rest are shaded in the chart. The headline’s first stage uses the last four complete quarters; its second uses the last four settled quarters.

The median is the middle permit: half took less, half more. The slowest 10% is the 90th percentile. A median needs at least 5 permits behind it, or it is left out. A project type is shown apart within a neighborhood only when it has 30 or more finished permits there; the rest are “other types”.

Never finaled means no final sign-off three years after the permit was issued (or filed, if never issued), and not expired, cancelled, withdrawn, revoked, disapproved, denied or suspended (the site’s “expired or cancelled” outcome). About a quarter of permits citywide end this way; often the work was done and nobody called for the final inspection. These permits are in the counts and not in the medians.

A permit’s neighborhood is the Analysis Neighborhood the city writes on the permit record (the official set of 41). Permits with none are counted citywide only; the page says how many. “Nearby” neighborhoods are the three nearest by the center of their permits. The site reloads the city’s data every night; permits filed since 1 January 2000 are included. The placement of a permit, its dates and its status are the city’s; the grouping and the words are this site’s. How to read these records.