How long do bathroom remodel permits take in San Francisco's Excelsior neighborhood?

In the Excelsior neighborhood of San Francisco, of the 95 bathroom remodel permits filed from October 2025 through September 2026 that have been issued, half were issued within 3 days, up from 1 day a year earlier. Of the 86 permits filed from October 2023 through September 2024 that have reached final sign-off, half did so within 174 days of being issued, down from 190 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	95 issued	3	121 issued	1
Permit issued to final sign-off	October 2023 through September 2024	86 finished	174	88 finished	190

“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 169 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	3	0			0			0	too recent
2026-Q3	31	20	0	29	1			0	too recent
2026-Q2	24	20	6	64	7	100	105	0	too recent
2026-Q1	29	24	2	55	6	91	166	0	too recent
2025-Q4	34	31	3	120	22	147	251	0	too recent
2025-Q3	33	31	6	147	20	162	312	0	too recent
2025-Q2	26	23	2	28	17	104	309	0	too recent
2025-Q1	25	23	0	62	17	176	390	0	too recent
2024-Q4	45	44	1	70	37	202	363	0	too recent
2024-Q3	36	36	2	49	28	219	386	0	yes
2024-Q2	29	28	2	97	22	140	371	0	yes
2024-Q1	17	16	0	53	16	152	478	0	yes
2023-Q4	26	24	5	139	20	216	396	0	yes
2023-Q3	22	20	7	108	20	180	577	1	yes
2023-Q2	32	27	6	40	25	150	344	6	yes
2023-Q1	24	22	0	108	17	161	317	4	yes
2022-Q4	30	27	16	394	26	220	460	3	yes
2022-Q3	22	21	8	90	19	246	427	1	yes
2022-Q2	24	22	27	529	18	258	534	3	yes
2022-Q1	34	33	10	102	29	202	508	4	yes
2021-Q4	32	30	14	212	26	317	712	5	yes
2021-Q3	23	22	10	327	15	183	602	6	yes
2021-Q2	25	20	38	334	14	284	591	6	yes
2021-Q1	27	25	0	383	19	168	377	5	yes
2020-Q4	34	32	41	290	27	208	503	3	yes
2020-Q3	31	29	7	94	23	220	454	4	yes
2020-Q2	6	6	14	63	4			2	yes
2020-Q1	22	22	0	582	16	341	630	4	yes
2019-Q4	36	31	4	572	25	282	851	5	yes
2019-Q3	32	31	6	480	23	314	662	6	yes
2019-Q2	26	23	10	241	21	273	878	3	yes
2019-Q1	22	20	4	51	17	190	589	3	yes
2018-Q4	41	36	7	354	28	236	609	7	yes
2018-Q3	37	32	12	211	27	230	690	2	yes
2018-Q2	32	31	2	42	24	178	557	3	yes
2018-Q1	33	30	7	318	24	238	650	6	yes
2017-Q4	35	32	3	49	28	173	529	3	yes
2017-Q3	31	29	5	61	23	183	624	4	yes
2017-Q2	36	33	12	576	25	164	350	6	yes
2017-Q1	22	22	1	17	21	262	456	1	yes
2016-Q4	27	25	9	285	22	176	398	1	yes
2016-Q3	32	30	4	61	25	191	674	4	yes
2016-Q2	17	15	6	240	12	142	479	2	yes
2016-Q1	27	26	1	158	20	182	1,026	5	yes
2015-Q4	35	35	4	124	25	174	774	5	yes
2015-Q3	31	31	1	44	23	252	866	5	yes
2015-Q2	44	39	3	249	32	199	601	5	yes
2015-Q1	28	27	3	68	19	140	402	4	yes
2014-Q4	45	45	2	64	35	201	609	7	yes
2014-Q3	41	39	0	139	26	183	414	10	yes
2014-Q2	36	35	0	22	30	108	479	3	yes
2014-Q1	36	35	4	227	22	212	495	11	yes
2013-Q4	32	31	2	49	18	118	278	10	yes
2013-Q3	37	37	2	18	25	257	576	10	yes
2013-Q2	33	33	1	48	26	192	500	3	yes
2013-Q1	31	28	2	83	20	158	413	7	yes
2012-Q4	18	17	1	19	13	135	352	3	yes
2012-Q3	39	38	1	139	30	124	290	4	yes
2012-Q2	41	39	0	34	34	124	358	2	yes
2012-Q1	26	25	0	10	21	79	202	4	yes
2011-Q4	28	27	0	5	23	142	359	3	yes
2011-Q3	23	21	0	14	19	160	406	1	yes
2011-Q2	24	24	1	64	18	124	370	3	yes
2011-Q1	27	26	0	8	24	116	201	1	yes
2010-Q4	25	24	2	18	20	119	497	4	yes
2010-Q3	31	30	0	33	29	91	370	1	yes
2010-Q2	31	31	0	7	24	134	281	6	yes
2010-Q1	23	22	1	11	19	108	808	1	yes
2009-Q4	34	31	0	7	27	120	715	5	yes
2009-Q3	26	26	0	12	20	168	319	2	yes
2009-Q2	28	24	4	25	21	189	362	1	yes
2009-Q1	18	18	0	49	15	168	378	3	yes
2008-Q4	20	20	0	15	18	174	337	2	yes
2008-Q3	30	30	0	69	24	150	419	3	yes
2008-Q2	24	24	0	3	22	140	258	1	yes
2008-Q1	16	15	0	16	11	168	286	3	yes
2007-Q4	31	29	0	14	23	167	568	6	yes
2007-Q3	23	22	0	5	16	129	230	2	yes
2007-Q2	22	22	0	0	17	70	227	1	yes
2007-Q1	30	30	0	20	23	171	344	1	yes
2006-Q4	12	12	0	0	8	121	253	2	yes
2006-Q3	24	24	0	20	17	91	281	0	yes
2006-Q2	28	28	0	151	18	136	237	6	yes
2006-Q1	25	24	0	121	16	222	362	0	yes
2005-Q4	23	21	0	0	14	156	250	3	yes
2005-Q3	21	21	0	0	16	214	332	1	yes
2005-Q2	19	19	0	23	12	100	314	5	yes
2005-Q1	16	16	0	88	12	165	401	2	yes
2004-Q4	21	20	0	0	11	123	309	3	yes
2004-Q3	22	22	0	304	16	150	405	4	yes
2004-Q2	25	25	0	0	17	162	473	1	yes
2004-Q1	25	25	0	96	20	176	386	4	yes
2003-Q4	18	18	0	60	14	180	601	1	yes
2003-Q3	38	36	0	0	27	170	329	5	yes
2003-Q2	21	21	0	0	18	176	464	2	yes
2003-Q1	22	22	0	17	19	125	419	2	yes
2002-Q4	15	15	0	58	13	140	381	0	yes
2002-Q3	23	23	0	29	21	158	251	0	yes
2002-Q2	25	23	0	0	20	170	412	1	yes
2002-Q1	14	13	0	12	10	134	229	0	yes
2001-Q4	13	13	0	172	11	259	294	0	yes
2001-Q3	19	19	0	81	17	126	658	0	yes
2001-Q2	21	20	0	41	18	180	491	0	yes
2001-Q1	15	15	0	36	9	380	506	0	yes
2000-Q4	16	15	0	50	13	114	263	0	yes
2000-Q3	10	10	0	106	7	173	504	0	yes
2000-Q2	27	26	0	72	19	153	296	0	yes
2000-Q1	12	12	0	41	5	113	271	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

303 of the 2,869 bathroom remodel permits filed since 2000 (11%) 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. 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 Excelsior neighborhood

Shown apart, with their own page here: bathroom remodel (2,869 filed, 2,106 finished; contractors); kitchen remodel (1,940 filed, 1,370 finished; contractors); stairs (1,120 filed, 785 finished; contractors); deck (780 filed, 535 finished; contractors). Other types: 12,100 permits. All permits in San Francisco's Excelsior neighborhood

Nearby neighborhoods

Outer Mission, McLaren Park, Glen Park; 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.