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

In the Noe Valley neighborhood of San Francisco, of the 173 bathroom remodel permits filed from October 2025 through September 2026 that have been issued, half were issued within 0 days, the same as a year earlier. Of the 119 permits filed from October 2023 through September 2024 that have reached final sign-off, half did so within 188 days of being issued, up from 169 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	173 issued	0	193 issued	0
Permit issued to final sign-off	October 2023 through September 2024	119 finished	188	137 finished	169

“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	1	0			0			0	too recent
2026-Q3	41	26	0	9	1			0	too recent
2026-Q2	58	49	0	71	17	106	141	0	too recent
2026-Q1	49	47	0	50	25	76	161	0	too recent
2025-Q4	56	51	2	90	35	151	254	0	too recent
2025-Q3	52	51	0	90	33	164	321	0	too recent
2025-Q2	68	67	1	95	50	176	346	0	too recent
2025-Q1	44	39	3	125	24	158	331	0	too recent
2024-Q4	37	36	0	139	28	176	413	0	too recent
2024-Q3	40	39	1	58	30	204	385	0	yes
2024-Q2	40	38	0	121	31	139	380	0	yes
2024-Q1	38	38	0	39	32	268	542	0	yes
2023-Q4	35	34	10	137	26	246	562	0	yes
2023-Q3	42	39	0	67	36	155	464	5	yes
2023-Q2	37	36	2	120	32	160	462	2	yes
2023-Q1	41	38	0	46	30	161	396	7	yes
2022-Q4	54	49	28	480	39	280	514	7	yes
2022-Q3	45	39	14	110	33	191	473	7	yes
2022-Q2	54	53	0	451	46	186	716	8	yes
2022-Q1	39	36	4	82	29	198	548	6	yes
2021-Q4	43	41	0	315	31	205	756	9	yes
2021-Q3	49	45	6	546	36	228	601	8	yes
2021-Q2	42	39	0	815	28	245	862	7	yes
2021-Q1	60	55	0	252	43	308	565	11	yes
2020-Q4	54	49	0	190	42	275	1,016	8	yes
2020-Q3	58	52	1	272	40	200	944	7	yes
2020-Q2	18	17	6	60	12	83	215	4	yes
2020-Q1	44	42	3	475	34	233	535	6	yes
2019-Q4	63	61	7	389	49	301	794	9	yes
2019-Q3	48	48	3	389	41	190	837	3	yes
2019-Q2	60	54	0	118	50	134	572	5	yes
2019-Q1	49	46	1	154	40	161	768	4	yes
2018-Q4	56	52	4	349	46	262	1,100	6	yes
2018-Q3	38	37	0	257	31	167	533	5	yes
2018-Q2	52	51	0	253	44	201	746	5	yes
2018-Q1	49	47	1	415	40	181	1,064	6	yes
2017-Q4	47	42	6	634	34	240	743	7	yes
2017-Q3	56	51	1	87	39	270	1,312	8	yes
2017-Q2	48	43	2	397	36	182	554	4	yes
2017-Q1	30	29	7	247	23	259	579	3	yes
2016-Q4	52	49	1	297	38	202	711	7	yes
2016-Q3	50	47	1	377	35	252	754	12	yes
2016-Q2	66	58	0	237	49	227	711	6	yes
2016-Q1	82	75	0	504	64	245	847	11	yes
2015-Q4	51	48	13	551	36	246	820	8	yes
2015-Q3	57	54	6	544	38	224	972	14	yes
2015-Q2	61	58	3	163	48	162	1,024	7	yes
2015-Q1	56	55	1	125	45	111	502	8	yes
2014-Q4	65	61	1	457	44	304	1,212	12	yes
2014-Q3	40	38	2	326	31	215	769	5	yes
2014-Q2	60	58	4	365	49	200	746	7	yes
2014-Q1	49	48	0	239	37	200	601	8	yes
2013-Q4	63	63	10	405	50	256	1,242	8	yes
2013-Q3	55	54	0	272	48	188	727	5	yes
2013-Q2	54	53	5	372	45	176	513	4	yes
2013-Q1	50	50	5	210	33	231	533	14	yes
2012-Q4	43	43	7	238	37	210	555	5	yes
2012-Q3	57	56	0	90	48	155	377	5	yes
2012-Q2	55	51	0	195	46	153	609	4	yes
2012-Q1	41	40	0	261	37	187	487	2	yes
2011-Q4	39	37	1	225	35	211	552	2	yes
2011-Q3	50	50	0	18	47	80	349	3	yes
2011-Q2	56	55	0	30	49	144	619	2	yes
2011-Q1	42	40	2	114	37	165	384	3	yes
2010-Q4	39	36	1	166	32	165	554	3	yes
2010-Q3	42	41	2	109	34	190	648	5	yes
2010-Q2	49	49	0	104	46	134	352	0	yes
2010-Q1	35	33	3	168	28	230	473	2	yes
2009-Q4	48	47	1	37	38	222	768	2	yes
2009-Q3	41	38	1	25	32	185	445	2	yes
2009-Q2	40	39	1	176	35	198	410	1	yes
2009-Q1	32	30	0	30	24	98	479	0	yes
2008-Q4	36	34	0	208	27	216	624	2	yes
2008-Q3	35	33	0	108	26	122	534	1	yes
2008-Q2	51	51	0	12	40	130	362	5	yes
2008-Q1	43	40	0	217	28	190	622	3	yes
2007-Q4	54	52	0	68	31	209	449	4	yes
2007-Q3	54	53	0	19	37	128	362	5	yes
2007-Q2	41	40	0	179	24	258	425	4	yes
2007-Q1	51	49	0	267	35	140	562	7	yes
2006-Q4	37	35	0	147	21	181	449	5	yes
2006-Q3	44	43	0	300	26	176	476	3	yes
2006-Q2	36	35	0	154	31	179	475	1	yes
2006-Q1	36	36	0	0	30	152	280	3	yes
2005-Q4	38	37	0	390	25	242	497	4	yes
2005-Q3	35	35	0	0	21	164	405	7	yes
2005-Q2	38	38	0	232	24	168	451	10	yes
2005-Q1	33	32	0	358	23	156	338	1	yes
2004-Q4	35	33	0	69	20	186	406	5	yes
2004-Q3	41	41	0	118	27	145	376	5	yes
2004-Q2	21	19	0	23	14	148	295	1	yes
2004-Q1	34	33	0	15	20	162	339	8	yes
2003-Q4	30	30	0	177	21	146	304	6	yes
2003-Q3	32	32	0	179	19	224	434	7	yes
2003-Q2	33	32	0	332	19	182	569	8	yes
2003-Q1	21	21	0	0	12	106	381	3	yes
2002-Q4	26	26	0	312	17	197	492	5	yes
2002-Q3	33	32	0	165	18	152	741	8	yes
2002-Q2	30	29	0	137	16	178	315	7	yes
2002-Q1	25	23	0	90	20	159	230	2	yes
2001-Q4	13	13	0	54	7	118	279	0	yes
2001-Q3	23	23	0	57	12	195	330	0	yes
2001-Q2	31	28	0	283	18	148	480	1	yes
2001-Q1	25	24	0	98	17	134	217	2	yes
2000-Q4	23	23	0	115	16	232	485	0	yes
2000-Q3	18	18	0	79	14	150	389	0	yes
2000-Q2	27	24	0	177	15	153	337	0	yes
2000-Q1	31	31	0	111	20	232	602	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

477 of the 4,669 bathroom remodel permits filed since 2000 (10%) 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 Noe Valley neighborhood

Shown apart, with their own page here: bathroom remodel (4,669 filed, 3,402 finished; contractors); kitchen remodel (3,842 filed, 2,770 finished; contractors); stairs (2,707 filed, 1,804 finished; contractors); deck (1,767 filed, 1,161 finished; contractors); roof deck (405 filed, 239 finished; contractors). Other types: 22,798 permits. All permits in San Francisco's Noe Valley neighborhood

Nearby neighborhoods

Glen Park, Twin Peaks, Castro/Upper Market; 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.