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

In the Outer Richmond neighborhood of San Francisco, of the 214 bathroom remodel permits filed from October 2025 through September 2026 that have been issued, half were issued within 1 day, down from 3 days a year earlier. Of the 157 permits filed from October 2023 through September 2024 that have reached final sign-off, half did so within 197 days of being issued, down from 206 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	214 issued	1	218 issued	3
Permit issued to final sign-off	October 2023 through September 2024	157 finished	197	178 finished	206

“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	2	0			0			0	too recent
2026-Q3	64	50	0	24	5	70	84	0	too recent
2026-Q2	65	60	6	56	10	68	93	0	too recent
2026-Q1	45	43	0	90	19	104	167	0	too recent
2025-Q4	65	61	1	70	33	150	282	0	too recent
2025-Q3	63	57	0	79	36	166	306	0	too recent
2025-Q2	71	67	6	80	46	184	387	0	too recent
2025-Q1	50	49	4	119	33	182	384	0	too recent
2024-Q4	47	45	3	292	33	140	371	0	too recent
2024-Q3	34	33	0	32	27	167	366	0	yes
2024-Q2	67	64	2	59	55	189	474	0	yes
2024-Q1	54	51	1	49	39	208	401	0	yes
2023-Q4	50	48	2	176	36	232	448	1	yes
2023-Q3	61	56	4	76	47	195	579	8	yes
2023-Q2	48	47	11	301	37	199	692	8	yes
2023-Q1	50	49	0	72	39	205	513	6	yes
2022-Q4	77	69	1	130	55	234	619	11	yes
2022-Q3	48	43	0	85	33	157	528	8	yes
2022-Q2	48	42	2	229	36	253	620	7	yes
2022-Q1	60	59	1	69	53	192	422	4	yes
2021-Q4	48	46	10	208	32	270	530	9	yes
2021-Q3	54	53	5	125	46	240	618	7	yes
2021-Q2	73	69	0	223	57	278	821	10	yes
2021-Q1	79	75	0	213	61	214	670	9	yes
2020-Q4	81	70	41	268	57	321	718	10	yes
2020-Q3	52	52	0	239	40	275	672	9	yes
2020-Q2	23	23	13	97	18	209	347	4	yes
2020-Q1	57	51	2	409	39	232	1,013	11	yes
2019-Q4	70	65	13	695	49	360	690	16	yes
2019-Q3	69	63	1	64	59	224	734	5	yes
2019-Q2	75	65	4	90	52	238	577	10	yes
2019-Q1	69	64	7	91	58	233	529	5	yes
2018-Q4	68	64	6	210	51	211	579	13	yes
2018-Q3	54	51	1	88	43	213	662	6	yes
2018-Q2	71	67	0	291	58	224	682	6	yes
2018-Q1	59	52	0	170	44	236	763	4	yes
2017-Q4	71	69	7	252	58	242	671	8	yes
2017-Q3	60	57	0	253	50	224	750	5	yes
2017-Q2	71	68	0	70	62	231	659	3	yes
2017-Q1	57	53	0	60	46	171	385	7	yes
2016-Q4	58	56	0	238	43	197	691	9	yes
2016-Q3	73	67	1	464	53	203	705	9	yes
2016-Q2	67	64	2	453	52	198	749	3	yes
2016-Q1	72	66	6	116	56	176	529	9	yes
2015-Q4	63	61	2	207	50	211	504	9	yes
2015-Q3	55	54	5	42	47	234	610	3	yes
2015-Q2	89	75	3	380	57	270	633	13	yes
2015-Q1	63	59	0	32	52	153	410	4	yes
2014-Q4	46	44	2	86	39	167	388	0	yes
2014-Q3	61	57	5	200	46	210	710	7	yes
2014-Q2	72	70	6	71	55	183	430	8	yes
2014-Q1	56	54	2	46	41	179	459	7	yes
2013-Q4	78	78	0	102	62	228	565	5	yes
2013-Q3	58	58	2	31	50	188	533	2	yes
2013-Q2	52	52	0	71	44	250	664	2	yes
2013-Q1	53	51	0	55	42	210	634	6	yes
2012-Q4	41	40	0	54	33	162	471	5	yes
2012-Q3	51	48	0	25	41	116	402	6	yes
2012-Q2	44	42	0	29	37	110	320	2	yes
2012-Q1	47	45	0	30	40	128	345	5	yes
2011-Q4	37	36	1	112	30	129	251	5	yes
2011-Q3	49	48	0	178	43	107	383	3	yes
2011-Q2	62	62	0	111	51	139	386	9	yes
2011-Q1	40	38	0	121	33	135	436	3	yes
2010-Q4	29	29	0	52	27	131	476	1	yes
2010-Q3	48	45	0	40	38	141	297	7	yes
2010-Q2	37	37	1	15	33	140	321	2	yes
2010-Q1	25	24	0	30	22	174	364	1	yes
2009-Q4	55	52	0	198	40	141	694	9	yes
2009-Q3	45	42	0	8	35	113	234	6	yes
2009-Q2	41	39	1	20	35	121	292	3	yes
2009-Q1	34	33	0	27	26	188	438	4	yes
2008-Q4	32	29	0	1	24	136	311	2	yes
2008-Q3	54	53	0	9	42	141	256	5	yes
2008-Q2	63	60	0	8	46	154	330	10	yes
2008-Q1	60	56	0	13	42	134	320	7	yes
2007-Q4	65	65	0	215	47	181	392	7	yes
2007-Q3	54	52	0	7	35	120	327	10	yes
2007-Q2	58	58	0	2	45	152	354	3	yes
2007-Q1	40	39	0	0	29	136	286	5	yes
2006-Q4	38	37	0	0	26	128	320	4	yes
2006-Q3	41	41	0	0	32	116	263	2	yes
2006-Q2	41	41	0	0	30	146	322	4	yes
2006-Q1	47	47	0	0	35	156	298	0	yes
2005-Q4	44	44	0	0	30	164	346	4	yes
2005-Q3	55	54	0	0	35	183	340	4	yes
2005-Q2	36	36	0	0	31	130	271	0	yes
2005-Q1	47	46	0	0	34	152	351	1	yes
2004-Q4	32	30	0	68	24	148	403	0	yes
2004-Q3	43	42	0	258	30	153	337	0	yes
2004-Q2	34	34	0	103	22	148	351	1	yes
2004-Q1	32	32	0	17	23	141	362	3	yes
2003-Q4	19	19	0	0	13	135	265	0	yes
2003-Q3	36	36	0	0	27	149	291	2	yes
2003-Q2	38	37	0	146	27	128	282	0	yes
2003-Q1	24	23	0	179	20	116	326	0	yes
2002-Q4	37	37	0	14	25	146	271	0	yes
2002-Q3	26	26	0	160	20	133	191	2	yes
2002-Q2	24	24	0	0	13	218	354	3	yes
2002-Q1	24	24	0	79	16	136	372	0	yes
2001-Q4	26	26	0	0	20	179	266	0	yes
2001-Q3	25	25	0	13	19	132	355	0	yes
2001-Q2	23	22	0	0	14	195	451	0	yes
2001-Q1	28	27	0	6	17	93	222	0	yes
2000-Q4	26	26	0	8	15	93	158	0	yes
2000-Q3	33	32	0	94	18	164	303	0	yes
2000-Q2	26	25	0	43	16	160	240	0	yes
2000-Q1	26	26	0	136	14	143	247	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

456 of the 5,388 bathroom remodel permits filed since 2000 (8%) 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 Outer Richmond neighborhood

Shown apart, with their own page here: bathroom remodel (5,388 filed, 3,961 finished; contractors); kitchen remodel (4,536 filed, 3,308 finished; contractors); stairs (2,059 filed, 1,409 finished; contractors); deck (1,133 filed, 752 finished; contractors); roof deck (217 filed, 139 finished; contractors). Other types: 23,687 permits. All permits in San Francisco's Outer Richmond neighborhood

Nearby neighborhoods

Seacliff, Lincoln Park, Golden Gate 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.