What Is Getting Built in 94107, San Francisco?

The clearest way to read a neighborhood is to look at the gap between the typical job and the whole pile of money. In ZIP 94107 — the Potrero Hill and Dogpatch side of San Francisco — the median permit lands at $14,400 while the entire window adds up to a compact $0.7M. A median that modest sitting under a total that small is the signature of many ordinary jobs, not a handful of giants. That shape tells you who is actually working here.

What is getting built in 94107? Mostly small, owner-driven improvement work. The ZIP filed 16 residential permits in the May 11 – June 9, 2026 reporting window, and the typical one was valued in the low thousands rather than the millions. There is no concentration of large new-construction projects pulling the numbers up; instead the picture is of established homes whose owners are reinvesting in them one scope at a time.

Scope: residential building permits (single-family and small multi-family); commercial and sub-trade permits are excluded at ingest. This is not a count of all construction permits issued in each city.

Reading the Distribution Before the Tables

Here is the whole post in one breath: 94107 is a low-volume, small-job pocket of a large and busy metro, and the work concentrating here is the kind a homeowner schedules with one or two trades rather than a developer phases over months. A building permit is a municipal authorization to perform construction, and a sealed snapshot is a point-in-time copy of public permit records that is hashed and stored before any analysis runs — so the figures cannot drift after the fact.

Every number on this page is a slice of San Francisco's sealed daily permit snapshot, filtered to the 94107 ZIP code. The data is cross-sectional: it describes one 30-day window and makes no claim about trends, because no comparable prior window exists in this series yet. Read it as a still photograph of a neighborhood, taken on a fixed date, that anyone can check against the same public source.

ZIP 94107 filed 16 residential permits in the May 11 – June 9, 2026 window, with a median permit valuation of $14,400.

Key Findings

• ZIP 94107 recorded 16 residential building permits in the window, according to US Tech Automations' sealed permit snapshots.

• The median permit valuation in 94107 is $14,400, per the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection via data.sfgov.org (Socrata).

• Reported permit valuation in the ZIP totals $0.7M for the window, according to the sealed snapshot data.

• OTC Alterations leads the ZIP with 15 permits, per the same Department of Building Inspection records.

• The ZIP sits inside a metro that logged 952 residential permits, according to the sealed San Francisco snapshot.

ZIP 94107 Permit Activity, May 11 – June 9, 2026

The table below is the 94107 slice of the sealed San Francisco snapshot. Valuation figures reflect what applicants declared on their filings, not independent appraisals, and the compact valuation total is reported exactly as the snapshot rolled it up.

A $14,400 median is the single most telling figure in this report. It says the typical permit in 94107 is a contained, single-purpose job — the kind of work an owner books with one trade and finishes in days or a few weeks, not a gut renovation or a ground-up build. With only 16 permits sharing a compact total of $0.7M, there is no long tail of multi-million-dollar projects dragging the average upward the way there is at the citywide level.

That low-and-tight distribution is a feature for anyone reading demand, not a limitation. It points to recurring maintenance and improvement work — the steady, distributed flow that keeps neighborhood electricians, plumbers, and finish trades busy — rather than the lumpy, project-by-project rhythm of new construction. For comparison, the San Francisco metro median is $19,395, so even by citywide standards a $14,400 job in 94107 is on the smaller, simpler end.

What Is Getting Built in 94107

The ZIP's permit mix is dominated by a single category. Of the 16 permits filed in 94107, 15 fall under the source category otc alterations permit, friendly-labeled here as OTC Alterations. That leaves the neighborhood almost entirely defined by one kind of work, so it is worth pulling that category apart rather than reciting it as a line item.

Because this ZIP runs on essentially one permit type, the per-category breakdown below leans on what the citywide San Francisco snapshot shows for the same labels — the same categories that, at the metro level, sort the city's 952 permits into a recognizable order.

OTC Alterations — the Over-the-Counter Workhorse

OTC Alterations accounts for 15 of the 16 permits filed in 94107. In San Francisco, an over-the-counter alterations permit is the fast lane of the permitting system: it is issued across the counter (or its online equivalent) for work that does not require a full plan-check review. That means alterations to an existing home that a plans examiner can sign off on the same visit — re-wiring or a panel upgrade, replacing in-kind plumbing or mechanical equipment, window and door swaps, dry-rot and structural repairs, interior reconfiguration, and routine kitchen or bath refreshes that stay inside the existing footprint.

The defining trait of an OTC job is that the house already exists and the change is bounded. Nobody pulls an over-the-counter alterations permit to build a new building; they pull one to fix, update, or modestly improve a standing one. A ZIP weighted this heavily toward OTC Alterations is therefore a neighborhood of owner-occupants and long-hold landlords maintaining their properties, not a development zone where builders are assembling lots.

OTC Alterations is the dominant permit category in 94107, accounting for 15 of the ZIP's 16 residential permits in the window.

Additions, Alterations or Repairs — the Larger-Scope Cousin

The next category in the citywide San Francisco mix is additions alterations or repairs, which carries 50 permits across the metro. It is the heavier-scope sibling of the over-the-counter track: the same family of remodel-and-repair work, but substantial enough to need a real plan review — a larger addition, a deeper structural change, or a remodel touching enough systems to warrant examiner sign-off. In a small-job ZIP like 94107, this is the kind of filing that shows up only occasionally, consistent with a neighborhood whose activity sits almost entirely in the faster OTC lane.

Permit — the Catch-All Residual

The third labeled category in the snapshot is simply permit, with 15 filings citywide. This is the residual bucket — records whose source description does not map cleanly to a more specific alteration or addition label, so the pipeline preserves the raw category exactly as the city published it rather than guessing at a tidier name. It is a reminder that the data is reported as found: where San Francisco's feed is vague, the snapshot stays vague too, instead of inventing precision that is not in the source.

For the trades, a 94107 weighted toward OTC Alterations is bread-and-butter demand. Over-the-counter remodels pull in electricians, plumbers, and finish carpenters in sequence, and they tend to cluster — once one home on a block files, neighbors often follow. For suppliers, an alteration-heavy mix means demand for fixtures and finish goods rather than the structural and sitework volume a new-construction ZIP generates. For agents, a steady stream of improvement permits is a pre-listing tell: owners who pull permits are often preparing to sell, or quietly raising the value of a home they intend to hold.

How 94107 Stacks Up Against San Francisco's Busiest ZIPs

The 94107 figure only means something next to the rest of the city. The table below places the ZIP alongside other active San Francisco ZIP codes from the same sealed snapshot, plus the citywide headline row. Permit counts and compact valuation totals are copied verbatim from the snapshot.

Read down the column and 94107 sits at the quiet end of the city. The busiest ZIP on this list, 94122, logged 99 permits against 94107's 16, and even the mid-pack ZIPs — 94127 at 62 permits, 94123 at 48 — run well ahead on both volume and the size of the valuation roll-up. On declared dollars, 94118 stands out at $9.7M and 94114 at $7.2M, both an order of magnitude above the $0.7M reported in 94107.

ZIP 94107 reported $0.7M in declared permit valuation, against $9.7M in ZIP 94118 and $7.2M in ZIP 94114 over the same window.

That contrast is the whole point of a neighborhood-level cut. San Francisco as a whole recorded 952 permits worth $68.9M in the window, but that metro figure averages over ZIPs as different as 94118 and 94107. A higher-valuation ZIP signals larger projects; a low-valuation, OTC-led ZIP like 94107 signals maintenance-grade demand. For a contractor or supplier deciding where to spend, those are two different markets hiding inside one citywide total.

The fuller picture lives in our San Francisco building permit report, and you can compare a neighboring pocket in our Bayview-area San Francisco ZIP report.

A Nob Hill-area San Francisco ZIP report shows how an adjacent ZIP diverges.

How These Numbers Are Built

The source for this slice is the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection via data.sfgov.org (Socrata). The 94107 figures are a ZIP-level cut of the same sealed daily snapshots that drive the citywide San Francisco report — the same records, filtered to one ZIP code, with no separate collection path.

All figures are computed directly from US Tech Automations' sealed daily permit snapshots; nothing is estimated, modeled, or extrapolated. Where the source feed omits a declared valuation on a filing, that filing still counts toward the permit total but contributes nothing to the valuation roll-up, so the reported valuation should be read as a floor rather than a ceiling. At the metro level, San Francisco reports 100% valuation coverage — every one of its 952 permits carries a declared value — which is why the citywide totals are unusually complete for this edition.

The pipeline runs in a fixed order every day:

1. Collect. Pull the day's published residential permit records from the San Francisco Socrata feed.

2. Normalize. Map each record to a common schema, apply the residential scope filter, and tag it with its ZIP code.

3. Seal. Hash the normalized day and store it append-only, so the snapshot cannot be altered after capture.

4. Aggregate. Sum permits and valuation across the May 11 – June 9, 2026 window and cut the result to ZIP 94107.

We also seal predictions about future activity on the same discipline and score them against public outcomes later; that work is published openly in our permit prediction ledger.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Is the 16-permit count all construction in 94107?
A: No. The scope is residential building permits — single-family and small multi-family. Commercial and sub-trade permits are excluded at ingest, so 16 is the residential slice of activity in the ZIP, not every permit issued there during the window.

Q: Why is the median permit valuation only $14,400?
A: Because most filings in 94107 are small jobs. With OTC Alterations accounting for 15 of the 16 permits, the typical work is an over-the-counter repair or modest improvement, which keeps the median permit valuation at $14,400 rather than the higher figures a new-construction ZIP would show.

Q: What does an OTC Alterations permit actually cover?
A: It is San Francisco's over-the-counter alterations permit, issued without full plan-check for bounded work on an existing home — rewiring, in-kind plumbing or mechanical swaps, window and door changes, dry-rot repair, and modest interior remodels that stay within the existing footprint.

Q: Who pulls these permits in 94107?
A: Largely homeowners and their contractors. An OTC-heavy mix points to owners reinvesting in existing homes, with licensed trades filing on their behalf for electrical, plumbing, and remodel work rather than developers breaking ground on new buildings.

Q: How does 94107 compare to the rest of San Francisco?
A: It is one of the quietest ZIPs on the panel. Where 94107 logged 16 permits, ZIP 94122 logged 99, and the San Francisco metro as a whole recorded 952 in the same window. The ZIP-level cut surfaces differences the citywide total hides.

Q: Can I trust these numbers will not change later?
A: Yes. Each day's records are hashed and stored append-only the moment they are captured, so the sealed snapshot behind every figure in this report is fixed and independently checkable against the public San Francisco source.

Put Permit Data to Work

Permit data is most useful when it is wired into a workflow rather than read once. In a neighborhood like 94107, where OTC Alterations drives 15 of 16 filings, a remodeling or electrical contractor wants to know the day a relevant permit posts; a supplier wants to time fixture and material inventory to local demand; a lender wants to read renovation activity as a credit signal; and a real estate agent wants improvement permits as a pre-listing tell.

The same engine that produces this report can turn that raw feed into automated signal handling — monitoring new filings as they seal, routing the ones that match a service area or trade, and drafting outreach so a team can act while the job is still fresh. The sealed-snapshot discipline behind this report runs underneath those workflows too. The public permits view, including this San Francisco data, lives at permits.ustechautomations.com.

To see how US Tech Automations builds permit signals into automated agent workflows for the trades, real estate, and lending, explore our real-estate AI agents.

Source: US Tech Automations Research — computed from sealed daily permit snapshots, May 11 – June 9, 2026.