How long do building permits take in San Francisco's Oceanview/Merced/Ingleside neighborhood?

In the Oceanview/Merced/Ingleside neighborhood of San Francisco, of the 345 building 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 357 permits filed from October 2023 through September 2024 that have reached final sign-off, half did so within 69 days of being issued, down from 112 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	345 issued	0	499 issued	0
Permit issued to final sign-off	October 2023 through September 2024	357 finished	69	314 finished	112

“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	8	2			0			0	too recent
2026-Q3	76	47	0	18	11	25	49	0	too recent
2026-Q2	98	85	0	23	41	28	84	0	too recent
2026-Q1	99	88	0	60	60	42	161	0	too recent
2025-Q4	138	125	0	27	88	62	239	0	too recent
2025-Q3	126	115	0	55	84	58	216	0	too recent
2025-Q2	141	133	0	49	97	47	238	0	too recent
2025-Q1	130	126	0	38	103	47	241	0	too recent
2024-Q4	134	125	0	51	96	62	314	0	too recent
2024-Q3	151	140	0	36	105	68	317	0	yes
2024-Q2	131	123	0	50	95	41	320	0	yes
2024-Q1	112	106	0	14	83	111	429	0	yes
2023-Q4	108	101	0	62	74	48	311	2	yes
2023-Q3	117	111	0	285	79	109	403	26	yes
2023-Q2	141	129	0	82	103	126	522	31	yes
2023-Q1	93	85	0	35	58	94	631	26	yes
2022-Q4	110	101	0	83	74	112	600	21	yes
2022-Q3	95	83	0	105	60	87	310	22	yes
2022-Q2	98	88	0	101	62	112	484	23	yes
2022-Q1	121	102	0	104	76	122	570	32	yes
2021-Q4	122	110	0	66	85	132	496	28	yes
2021-Q3	129	117	0	106	84	108	582	25	yes
2021-Q2	92	82	0	360	53	118	514	25	yes
2021-Q1	80	68	0	233	58	75	602	14	yes
2020-Q4	93	82	0	177	60	110	664	19	yes
2020-Q3	113	100	1	90	67	83	464	30	yes
2020-Q2	46	40	4	83	29	166	410	10	yes
2020-Q1	114	97	0	273	61	153	470	30	yes
2019-Q4	136	121	0	80	65	237	759	47	yes
2019-Q3	164	153	0	173	90	116	628	57	yes
2019-Q2	143	129	0	175	82	154	693	44	yes
2019-Q1	119	106	0	42	70	86	654	34	yes
2018-Q4	117	104	0	140	73	131	412	32	yes
2018-Q3	152	133	0	37	76	76	471	59	yes
2018-Q2	150	139	0	64	85	131	342	56	yes
2018-Q1	142	131	0	67	78	84	398	51	yes
2017-Q4	130	123	0	116	82	125	529	39	yes
2017-Q3	156	148	0	36	90	102	475	56	yes
2017-Q2	137	130	0	200	76	76	400	50	yes
2017-Q1	112	105	0	44	61	83	349	34	yes
2016-Q4	144	133	0	48	76	93	340	51	yes
2016-Q3	140	136	0	128	84	120	670	48	yes
2016-Q2	110	105	0	112	73	111	508	36	yes
2016-Q1	92	88	0	140	58	109	666	26	yes
2015-Q4	139	130	0	60	77	110	536	43	yes
2015-Q3	134	134	0	42	80	90	522	52	yes
2015-Q2	143	133	0	89	75	105	457	49	yes
2015-Q1	121	112	0	51	55	127	483	54	yes
2014-Q4	120	116	0	47	68	124	379	43	yes
2014-Q3	146	140	0	136	89	83	513	43	yes
2014-Q2	124	119	0	88	83	102	379	35	yes
2014-Q1	114	110	0	41	80	148	652	25	yes
2013-Q4	152	150	0	503	108	132	544	40	yes
2013-Q3	116	111	0	18	83	104	353	25	yes
2013-Q2	79	75	0	24	53	93	410	19	yes
2013-Q1	95	93	0	16	64	96	394	27	yes
2012-Q4	136	134	0	314	104	100	1,106	24	yes
2012-Q3	106	105	0	23	72	78	375	27	yes
2012-Q2	104	99	0	12	71	71	364	26	yes
2012-Q1	95	94	0	26	70	64	329	18	yes
2011-Q4	110	110	0	3	70	74	306	32	yes
2011-Q3	115	110	0	4	76	78	270	23	yes
2011-Q2	119	115	0	39	78	78	272	31	yes
2011-Q1	94	92	0	71	68	92	269	22	yes
2010-Q4	73	71	0	6	51	49	364	14	yes
2010-Q3	106	104	0	53	72	60	327	22	yes
2010-Q2	116	110	0	11	78	88	359	29	yes
2010-Q1	127	124	0	15	83	76	355	27	yes
2009-Q4	120	113	0	4	68	72	523	42	yes
2009-Q3	121	117	0	8	84	72	298	27	yes
2009-Q2	121	118	0	5	63	75	208	44	yes
2009-Q1	126	120	0	2	50	58	241	62	yes
2008-Q4	104	103	0	6	67	89	332	28	yes
2008-Q3	154	148	0	4	87	97	300	48	yes
2008-Q2	149	140	0	3	95	87	213	34	yes
2008-Q1	121	119	0	6	69	102	420	34	yes
2007-Q4	142	140	0	8	89	85	382	46	yes
2007-Q3	161	157	0	3	89	87	311	52	yes
2007-Q2	134	133	0	1	77	97	559	39	yes
2007-Q1	115	109	0	36	58	60	392	30	yes
2006-Q4	120	118	0	0	71	64	182	24	yes
2006-Q3	157	146	0	0	85	83	400	29	yes
2006-Q2	134	133	0	0	81	82	263	33	yes
2006-Q1	131	131	0	130	81	78	294	31	yes
2005-Q4	118	113	0	123	57	98	321	39	yes
2005-Q3	147	144	0	196	83	106	393	31	yes
2005-Q2	149	142	0	32	94	80	294	23	yes
2005-Q1	123	120	0	0	76	70	248	20	yes
2004-Q4	134	128	0	4	79	116	307	20	yes
2004-Q3	184	182	0	3	123	62	266	28	yes
2004-Q2	228	228	0	9	169	60	221	14	yes
2004-Q1	197	194	0	1	128	42	170	28	yes
2003-Q4	207	204	0	206	155	50	282	21	yes
2003-Q3	175	172	0	130	107	80	350	19	yes
2003-Q2	212	207	0	1	142	50	299	28	yes
2003-Q1	177	170	0	14	115	83	283	20	yes
2002-Q4	165	156	0	25	102	92	373	26	yes
2002-Q3	136	129	0	413	83	100	358	18	yes
2002-Q2	153	149	0	5	86	110	268	5	yes
2002-Q1	125	125	0	181	73	113	376	5	yes
2001-Q4	125	121	0	157	54	146	426	5	yes
2001-Q3	122	118	0	67	58	94	431	3	yes
2001-Q2	111	106	0	180	49	168	499	0	yes
2001-Q1	88	85	0	48	42	143	361	1	yes
2000-Q4	109	106	0	154	42	120	366	1	yes
2000-Q3	134	132	0	159	52	156	599	1	yes
2000-Q2	110	110	0	16	53	86	317	0	yes
2000-Q1	109	105	0	43	30	126	539	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

2,793 of the 13,592 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 Oceanview/Merced/Ingleside neighborhood

Shown apart, with their own page here: bathroom remodel (2,842 filed, 2,115 finished; contractors); kitchen remodel (2,071 filed, 1,499 finished; contractors); stairs (917 filed, 606 finished; contractors); deck (605 filed, 389 finished; contractors). Other types: 9,103 permits.

Nearby neighborhoods

Outer Mission, Lakeshore, West of Twin Peaks; 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.