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

In the Noe Valley neighborhood of San Francisco, of the 108 kitchen remodel permits filed from October 2025 through September 2026 that have been issued, half were issued within 0 days, down from 1 day a year earlier. Of the 89 permits filed from October 2023 through September 2024 that have reached final sign-off, half did so within 189 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	108 issued	0	153 issued	1
Permit issued to final sign-off	October 2023 through September 2024	89 finished	189	120 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 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-Q4	4	0			0			0	too recent
2026-Q3	27	15	0	8	0			0	too recent
2026-Q2	43	32	0	22	7	133	143	0	too recent
2026-Q1	30	28	0	99	16	78	159	0	too recent
2025-Q4	35	33	3	108	19	147	253	0	too recent
2025-Q3	36	36	0	64	23	129	309	0	too recent
2025-Q2	47	46	1	58	34	199	348	0	too recent
2025-Q1	37	34	6	62	20	180	313	0	too recent
2024-Q4	37	37	0	104	31	100	386	0	too recent
2024-Q3	40	39	1	26	31	211	435	0	yes
2024-Q2	26	25	0	108	17	181	400	0	yes
2024-Q1	21	21	0	49	20	268	538	0	yes
2023-Q4	29	29	0	134	21	168	489	1	yes
2023-Q3	34	32	0	207	27	135	458	4	yes
2023-Q2	44	43	1	300	37	160	394	3	yes
2023-Q1	35	34	0	42	25	151	359	7	yes
2022-Q4	44	40	6	108	31	280	487	9	yes
2022-Q3	36	32	9	139	26	176	514	7	yes
2022-Q2	31	30	0	333	26	322	822	5	yes
2022-Q1	35	34	0	82	27	213	471	5	yes
2021-Q4	29	29	0	222	22	250	752	7	yes
2021-Q3	29	26	18	542	22	330	810	3	yes
2021-Q2	34	31	0	159	25	256	755	2	yes
2021-Q1	43	39	0	213	35	244	559	5	yes
2020-Q4	42	41	0	189	29	263	1,027	9	yes
2020-Q3	44	43	1	200	32	206	996	7	yes
2020-Q2	12	10	3	58	7	99	568	2	yes
2020-Q1	38	37	5	435	32	279	546	3	yes
2019-Q4	47	46	9	388	35	301	718	7	yes
2019-Q3	37	36	4	192	32	304	789	2	yes
2019-Q2	40	40	0	96	36	176	708	4	yes
2019-Q1	33	30	0	38	25	266	723	3	yes
2018-Q4	48	45	5	374	39	273	1,170	5	yes
2018-Q3	26	26	0	54	23	204	503	2	yes
2018-Q2	47	45	0	123	39	218	823	5	yes
2018-Q1	30	30	2	513	23	184	1,035	6	yes
2017-Q4	28	27	0	683	21	209	619	4	yes
2017-Q3	45	43	0	210	36	243	938	5	yes
2017-Q2	48	45	0	122	38	258	614	3	yes
2017-Q1	25	24	0	31	19	214	580	3	yes
2016-Q4	47	45	0	294	36	204	744	5	yes
2016-Q3	41	38	2	553	33	193	709	4	yes
2016-Q2	50	46	0	156	41	174	423	1	yes
2016-Q1	53	49	2	347	42	203	753	6	yes
2015-Q4	45	41	2	220	29	218	754	10	yes
2015-Q3	46	41	1	530	28	204	1,037	11	yes
2015-Q2	54	51	0	241	38	247	1,142	9	yes
2015-Q1	46	46	0	123	32	255	596	10	yes
2014-Q4	43	42	0	445	27	192	1,195	11	yes
2014-Q3	40	39	0	322	27	166	767	8	yes
2014-Q2	55	52	0	56	44	116	671	7	yes
2014-Q1	43	43	0	215	30	163	538	11	yes
2013-Q4	51	50	10	457	37	295	1,272	7	yes
2013-Q3	47	46	0	270	39	178	791	6	yes
2013-Q2	45	44	0	302	37	145	507	4	yes
2013-Q1	40	40	5	165	32	242	668	5	yes
2012-Q4	42	40	6	207	34	206	412	4	yes
2012-Q3	37	36	0	52	33	155	457	2	yes
2012-Q2	37	36	0	34	30	170	443	4	yes
2012-Q1	34	33	0	149	30	168	429	0	yes
2011-Q4	28	27	0	70	24	210	519	2	yes
2011-Q3	34	34	0	42	31	92	707	2	yes
2011-Q2	38	38	0	62	35	135	626	1	yes
2011-Q1	41	40	1	102	37	134	384	1	yes
2010-Q4	31	30	0	176	27	179	557	3	yes
2010-Q3	34	33	1	105	27	104	645	5	yes
2010-Q2	35	35	1	133	34	180	350	0	yes
2010-Q1	27	27	0	188	23	151	439	1	yes
2009-Q4	31	30	1	128	26	206	651	2	yes
2009-Q3	30	30	0	60	24	128	487	4	yes
2009-Q2	32	32	0	10	30	132	356	0	yes
2009-Q1	35	34	0	24	24	98	428	3	yes
2008-Q4	27	26	0	160	18	208	671	3	yes
2008-Q3	36	36	0	6	29	109	373	1	yes
2008-Q2	54	53	0	30	38	132	349	4	yes
2008-Q1	35	34	0	141	23	153	569	4	yes
2007-Q4	40	39	0	14	28	208	373	2	yes
2007-Q3	48	48	0	17	32	170	515	3	yes
2007-Q2	37	37	0	154	22	102	330	2	yes
2007-Q1	38	38	0	266	27	137	456	7	yes
2006-Q4	20	20	0	243	12	202	441	3	yes
2006-Q3	35	34	0	158	25	141	550	2	yes
2006-Q2	41	40	0	0	27	153	722	7	yes
2006-Q1	33	33	0	0	29	146	299	2	yes
2005-Q4	39	39	0	278	25	155	428	7	yes
2005-Q3	42	42	0	214	26	170	361	9	yes
2005-Q2	32	31	0	456	23	169	473	7	yes
2005-Q1	33	33	0	310	20	133	324	5	yes
2004-Q4	25	25	0	0	11	247	405	6	yes
2004-Q3	40	40	0	58	34	178	593	3	yes
2004-Q2	28	28	0	0	19	181	234	4	yes
2004-Q1	28	27	0	26	16	210	461	7	yes
2003-Q4	30	30	0	131	19	142	1,142	7	yes
2003-Q3	22	22	0	38	12	177	272	5	yes
2003-Q2	29	28	0	49	18	161	562	5	yes
2003-Q1	33	33	0	0	17	188	788	6	yes
2002-Q4	28	27	0	2	17	236	362	5	yes
2002-Q3	31	31	0	167	17	349	1,032	7	yes
2002-Q2	31	30	0	0	16	145	370	7	yes
2002-Q1	21	20	0	2	14	146	246	1	yes
2001-Q4	17	16	0	91	8	136	230	2	yes
2001-Q3	31	31	0	0	22	108	240	0	yes
2001-Q2	24	23	0	150	18	146	447	1	yes
2001-Q1	17	17	0	20	9	147	258	1	yes
2000-Q4	18	18	0	4	9	196	486	1	yes
2000-Q3	41	40	0	0	21	135	252	0	yes
2000-Q2	32	32	0	49	19	176	443	0	yes
2000-Q1	38	37	0	56	21	152	372	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

413 of the 3,842 kitchen 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 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.