How long do kitchen remodel permits take in San Francisco's Mission neighborhood?

In the Mission neighborhood of San Francisco, of the 145 kitchen remodel permits filed from October 2025 through September 2026 that have been issued, half were issued within 1 day, the same as a year earlier. Of the 90 permits filed from October 2023 through September 2024 that have reached final sign-off, half did so within 144 days of being issued, down from 217 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	145 issued	1	144 issued	1
Permit issued to final sign-off	October 2023 through September 2024	90 finished	144	105 finished	217

“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 176 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-Q3	43	31	0	7	7	52	70	0	too recent
2026-Q2	44	38	0	59	16	110	148	0	too recent
2026-Q1	43	37	1	74	18	104	168	0	too recent
2025-Q4	43	39	1	60	27	140	290	0	too recent
2025-Q3	48	47	0	77	33	144	302	0	too recent
2025-Q2	39	37	3	182	19	200	339	0	too recent
2025-Q1	39	37	0	49	25	91	257	0	too recent
2024-Q4	25	23	0	49	15	142	354	0	too recent
2024-Q3	30	28	2	98	25	141	308	0	yes
2024-Q2	38	37	1	75	25	245	491	0	yes
2024-Q1	28	27	1	52	18	126	362	0	yes
2023-Q4	32	29	0	73	22	139	340	0	yes
2023-Q3	35	32	0	180	21	143	416	11	yes
2023-Q2	33	33	8	86	27	237	771	5	yes
2023-Q1	36	33	0	63	26	144	592	5	yes
2022-Q4	43	41	6	266	31	233	716	8	yes
2022-Q3	45	40	0	261	35	232	482	3	yes
2022-Q2	73	68	5	99	52	197	638	10	yes
2022-Q1	66	60	0	71	50	216	588	11	yes
2021-Q4	73	72	28	92	45	172	391	8	yes
2021-Q3	55	53	0	61	41	199	692	10	yes
2021-Q2	58	57	0	57	47	183	483	7	yes
2021-Q1	65	58	0	128	51	214	500	5	yes
2020-Q4	64	60	0	210	50	183	592	9	yes
2020-Q3	43	37	22	276	30	191	594	5	yes
2020-Q2	25	22	7	85	15	235	792	4	yes
2020-Q1	60	58	0	146	39	240	824	15	yes
2019-Q4	64	58	13	434	50	336	1,110	8	yes
2019-Q3	59	57	0	92	39	205	836	14	yes
2019-Q2	48	47	0	104	36	168	434	9	yes
2019-Q1	51	47	0	66	39	185	376	9	yes
2018-Q4	62	59	2	67	44	208	520	12	yes
2018-Q3	63	60	4	124	45	226	539	12	yes
2018-Q2	58	55	1	31	37	245	485	17	yes
2018-Q1	60	55	1	116	36	176	1,070	16	yes
2017-Q4	64	60	1	103	43	210	674	13	yes
2017-Q3	58	55	7	315	40	195	553	10	yes
2017-Q2	70	64	0	75	46	119	455	16	yes
2017-Q1	57	55	0	373	44	185	947	8	yes
2016-Q4	65	56	0	88	42	237	661	13	yes
2016-Q3	69	62	0	257	49	229	727	12	yes
2016-Q2	75	71	1	124	47	181	599	20	yes
2016-Q1	66	53	0	56	41	181	807	11	yes
2015-Q4	76	71	0	189	60	174	735	7	yes
2015-Q3	73	65	0	175	54	222	683	8	yes
2015-Q2	63	57	0	155	43	179	497	9	yes
2015-Q1	73	67	3	89	53	216	667	8	yes
2014-Q4	47	47	0	149	39	182	514	6	yes
2014-Q3	75	70	0	19	53	186	465	19	yes
2014-Q2	75	69	0	79	52	180	564	14	yes
2014-Q1	73	68	0	68	54	176	474	12	yes
2013-Q4	72	70	0	86	56	200	1,096	12	yes
2013-Q3	71	70	0	34	59	195	363	9	yes
2013-Q2	62	60	0	97	54	101	361	5	yes
2013-Q1	49	47	0	8	36	122	522	10	yes
2012-Q4	53	52	1	39	39	235	547	12	yes
2012-Q3	52	50	0	61	42	137	360	7	yes
2012-Q2	64	62	0	69	49	126	382	9	yes
2012-Q1	60	60	0	21	50	168	307	7	yes
2011-Q4	49	48	1	141	42	152	417	4	yes
2011-Q3	54	52	0	11	46	162	420	5	yes
2011-Q2	50	48	0	19	43	145	491	3	yes
2011-Q1	24	24	0	20	21	84	256	1	yes
2010-Q4	58	57	1	201	44	168	717	7	yes
2010-Q3	41	39	0	31	33	157	355	3	yes
2010-Q2	57	54	0	15	49	159	510	4	yes
2010-Q1	41	39	0	20	28	118	464	8	yes
2009-Q4	39	34	0	39	29	163	625	3	yes
2009-Q3	34	34	0	6	29	129	438	2	yes
2009-Q2	37	37	0	53	25	179	409	7	yes
2009-Q1	33	33	0	83	24	206	322	8	yes
2008-Q4	51	46	0	16	30	122	408	11	yes
2008-Q3	54	51	0	5	35	132	455	5	yes
2008-Q2	51	50	0	28	31	125	333	11	yes
2008-Q1	45	41	0	152	28	129	300	3	yes
2007-Q4	59	55	0	65	33	149	292	11	yes
2007-Q3	73	69	0	4	40	142	360	16	yes
2007-Q2	50	49	0	22	28	138	386	10	yes
2007-Q1	30	30	0	0	15	103	255	8	yes
2006-Q4	27	27	0	103	11	140	466	7	yes
2006-Q3	51	51	0	0	33	148	319	5	yes
2006-Q2	33	33	0	0	18	132	218	5	yes
2006-Q1	43	43	0	0	26	195	291	5	yes
2005-Q4	35	35	0	0	23	203	343	8	yes
2005-Q3	49	48	0	0	22	154	397	9	yes
2005-Q2	45	45	0	0	23	136	384	7	yes
2005-Q1	47	47	0	0	37	200	466	5	yes
2004-Q4	28	27	0	0	13	105	423	3	yes
2004-Q3	30	29	0	0	14	140	545	6	yes
2004-Q2	38	38	0	0	23	149	276	5	yes
2004-Q1	29	29	0	0	12	166	219	8	yes
2003-Q4	36	36	0	0	23	152	351	3	yes
2003-Q3	35	35	0	0	15	65	219	7	yes
2003-Q2	23	22	0	7	10	168	295	4	yes
2003-Q1	33	33	0	0	20	108	356	2	yes
2002-Q4	40	38	0	25	23	131	356	6	yes
2002-Q3	26	26	0	0	18	109	277	3	yes
2002-Q2	21	20	0	17	10	154	343	4	yes
2002-Q1	34	33	0	0	16	83	210	1	yes
2001-Q4	25	25	0	71	12	167	361	2	yes
2001-Q3	30	29	0	58	16	116	432	1	yes
2001-Q2	33	33	0	26	13	204	319	0	yes
2001-Q1	29	29	0	3	22	132	475	0	yes
2000-Q4	19	19	0	0	12	148	591	0	yes
2000-Q3	28	28	0	0	12	93	200	0	yes
2000-Q2	43	41	0	44	18	145	440	0	yes
2000-Q1	28	27	0	0	12	250	432	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

706 of the 5,121 kitchen remodel permits filed since 2000 (14%) 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 Mission neighborhood

Shown apart, with their own page here: bathroom remodel (5,544 filed, 3,781 finished; contractors); kitchen remodel (5,121 filed, 3,441 finished; contractors); stairs (3,714 filed, 2,590 finished; contractors); deck (1,135 filed, 786 finished; contractors); roof deck (332 filed, 202 finished; contractors). Other types: 41,115 permits. All permits in San Francisco's Mission neighborhood

Nearby neighborhoods

Castro/Upper Market, Noe Valley, Potrero Hill; 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.