$3.5M of Permitted Work in ZIP 94110, San Francisco — June 2026

Property owners in ZIP 94110 — the Mission District and the blocks around it — filed 84 residential building permits totaling $3.5M of work over the May 11 – June 9, 2026 reporting window. The dollars are the story here: this is among San Francisco's busiest residential permit ZIPs by filing count, yet the money behind those filings stays modest, spread across dozens of small projects rather than concentrated in a handful of large ones.

Every figure in this report is a ZIP-level slice of the same sealed daily snapshot behind our San Francisco building permit report. 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.

Key Findings

• ZIP 94110 logged 84 residential permits totaling $3.5M according to US Tech Automations' sealed permit snapshots.

• The median permit in 94110 is valued at $15,165, per San Francisco Department of Building Inspection records via data.sfgov.org (Socrata).

• 76 of the ZIP's 84 permits are otc alterations permit filings, per the same sealed ZIP-level slice.

• 94110 trails only 94122 (99 permits) and 94116 (95 permits) by volume, per the sealed ZIP-level slice of the snapshot.

• San Francisco recorded 952 permits worth $68.9M citywide in the window, per San Francisco Department of Building Inspection records via data.sfgov.org (Socrata).

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How much permitted residential work was filed in the Mission District's ZIP this window?
A: $3.5M across 84 residential building permits between May 11 – June 9, 2026. That total is the sum of the valuations owners and contractors declared on each filing, taken directly from San Francisco Department of Building Inspection records as captured in sealed daily snapshots. Nothing is modeled or projected — it is the declared value of the work, as filed.

Q: What kind of construction work dominates the permits here?
A: Over-the-counter alterations. 76 of the ZIP's 84 permits carry the source label "otc alterations permit" — the city's fast-track path for renovation work that does not need full plan review. Think kitchen and bath remodels, window replacement, re-roofing, dry-rot repair, and in-kind interior upgrades. Ground-up construction and major additions follow a slower, plan-checked route and barely register here.

Q: Does this report count every construction permit in the neighborhood?
A: No. The snapshot covers residential building permits — single-family and small multi-family — and excludes commercial and sub-trade permits at ingest. A restaurant build-out on Mission Street or a standalone electrical permit will not appear in these counts. Treat the figures as a clean read on residential renovation activity, not total construction volume.

Q: Why is the typical permit here smaller than the citywide norm?
A: The median permit in 94110 is valued at $15,165, against a citywide median of $19,395. The Mission's housing stock is dominated by older Victorian and Edwardian flats and small multi-family buildings, which generate a steady stream of maintenance-scale jobs — repairs, unit refreshes, weatherproofing — rather than the larger whole-home remodels that lift medians in wealthier single-family neighborhoods.

Q: Where does the data come from, and can it be verified?
A: Every permit originates from the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection via data.sfgov.org (Socrata). Our research pipeline captures the feed daily, hashes each snapshot, and seals it before any aggregation happens — so the inputs behind this page are fixed and auditable. The methodology section below walks through the pipeline step by step.

Q: Who actually pulls these permits?
A: Mostly small residential contractors and homeowners. Over-the-counter alterations are the bread and butter of remodelers, roofers, and repair specialists working the Mission's older flats. The valuation profile — many filings clustered well below the citywide upper quartile of $48,018 — points to a market of independent trades and small crews rather than large general contractors running major projects.

ZIP 94110 Permit Activity, May 11 – June 9, 2026

The shape of this table matters more than any single cell. A high filing count paired with a modest total and a median of $15,165 describes a neighborhood in constant small-scale motion: lots of owners fixing, upgrading, and maintaining, very few undertaking transformative construction.

ZIP 94110 filed 84 residential permits totaling $3.5M — a median job of $15,165, well under the citywide median of $19,395.

For context, San Francisco's citywide quartile band runs from $8,700 at the lower end to $48,018 at the upper end. The Mission's median sits in the lower half of that band, which is consistent with a renovation market built on repair and refresh work rather than expansion.

What Is Getting Built in 94110

The dominant permit type is the OTC Alterations permit — 76 of the ZIP's 84 filings carry the raw source label "otc alterations permit." In San Francisco, "OTC" means over-the-counter: the Department of Building Inspection reviews and issues these permits at the counter, often the same day, because the work is routine enough that it does not trigger full plan review or neighborhood notification.

What kind of job rides an over-the-counter permit? In-kind kitchen and bathroom remodels, window and door replacement, re-roofing, dry-rot and termite damage repair, interior finish work, and modest layout changes that leave the building envelope alone. For the Mission's aging stock of Victorian and Edwardian flats, this is the permit that keeps buildings habitable — the plumbing-wall rebuild after a leak, the foundation sill repair, the unit turnover refresh between tenants. We cover this permit type citywide in our San Francisco OTC alterations report.

The pattern in 94110 mirrors the city as a whole. Here is San Francisco's full category mix for the window, with labels exactly as recorded in the source data:

The "additions alterations or repairs" category is the slower path: projects that need plan check, structural review, or public notice — additions, significant reconfigurations, work that changes a building's footprint or unit count. Citywide it accounts for 50 filings against 883 over-the-counter permits, so the fast lane carries the overwhelming majority of residential work. The generically labeled "permit" category, at 15 filings, reflects records the source system left without a specific type.

The process difference matters for anyone reading these numbers. An over-the-counter permit can move from application to issuance in a single visit, so filings track real work closely — owners rarely pull one until a contractor is lined up and ready to start. Plan-checked permits, by contrast, can sit in review for months, so a filing may precede visible construction by a long stretch. In a ZIP where the fast lane carries 76 of 84 permits, the permit record reads close to a real-time activity feed.

For contractors, the implication is direct. The Mission is not a market for chasing rare large jobs; it is a volume market of small, quick-turn projects pulled by owners who need work done now. The trades that win here — bath and kitchen remodelers, roofers, dry-rot specialists — win on responsiveness, not on bid size.

How 94110 Compares in San Francisco

Set against the city's other most active ZIPs, 94110 ranks near the top on filing count and near the middle on dollars:

The contrast with the Richmond is instructive: 94118 logged 63 permits — fewer than the Mission — yet $9.7M in declared work, while 94114 in Eureka Valley paired 63 permits with $7.2M. Those neighborhoods see fewer, larger projects; the Mission sees many smaller ones. Only the Sunset ZIPs — 94122 with 99 permits and 94116 with 95 — out-file 94110, and both also out-earn it on declared dollars.

94110 out-files almost every ZIP in San Francisco, yet its $3.5M total trails 94118's $9.7M on just 63 permits — volume in the Mission means many modest jobs, not big ones.

For a contractor or supplier deciding where to spend attention, the split is actionable. High-count, low-ticket ZIPs like 94110 and the Sunset suit businesses that profit on throughput — quick bids, standard scopes, repeat trade relationships. Higher-ticket, lower-count ZIPs like 94118 and 94114 reward firms that can carry longer sales cycles and plan-review timelines for fewer, bigger wins. The same permit feed serves both strategies; what changes is which column you sort by.

Citywide, San Francisco logged 952 residential permits worth $68.9M in the window, with a maximum single permit valuation of $6,000,000. Across the 8 metros in this edition, San Francisco ranks #2 by permit count and #5 by total valuation — a high-volume, lower-ticket market by national comparison, and 94110 is that profile in concentrated form. The full cross-metro picture, covering 7,334 permits and $688.3M in declared work, is in the San Francisco metro report and its sibling metro pages.

Methodology

Source: San Francisco Department of Building Inspection via data.sfgov.org (Socrata). All figures are computed directly from US Tech Automations' sealed daily permit snapshots; nothing is estimated, modeled, or extrapolated.

This page is a ZIP-level cut of the same sealed metro snapshot — no separate collection run, no re-querying. The scope is residential building permits (single-family and small multi-family); commercial and sub-trade permits are excluded at ingest, so these are not counts of all construction permits issued in each city. In this window, 100% of San Francisco's 952 permits carry a declared valuation, so the dollar figures rest on complete coverage; across the full 8-metro edition, 6,171 of 7,334 permits carry valuations, for 84% coverage.

How the pipeline works:

1. Collect. Pull new residential permit filings daily from the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection's open dataset on data.sfgov.org (Socrata).

2. Normalize. Map raw fields — permit type, declared valuation, ZIP code, filing date — into a common cross-metro schema, excluding commercial and sub-trade records at ingest.

3. Seal. Hash each day's snapshot and append it to a content-addressed store, fixing the inputs before any analysis. The same discipline backs our permit prediction ledger.

4. Aggregate. Sum and slice the sealed records over the 30-day window of May 11 – June 9, 2026 — citywide, by category, and by ZIP.

Because snapshots are sealed before aggregation, the numbers on this page cannot be quietly revised later. This edition is cross-sectional: it describes one window, with no claims about how activity compares to past months.

Put Permit Data to Work

A neighborhood filing this many small permits is constantly hiring trades, and the public record says exactly where. Remodeling contractors can use ZIP-level permit flow to qualify the Mission before spending on marketing: a market with a median job around $15,165 rewards crews built for fast, repeatable projects. Suppliers can read the over-the-counter mix as steady demand for finish materials, roofing, and windows rather than structural packages. Lenders and agents can treat sustained small-permit activity as a signal of owners investing to hold or preparing to list.

US Tech Automations turns these signals into working pipelines: monitoring sealed permit feeds, routing new filings to the right sales territory, and drafting outreach from verified public records instead of guesswork. The underlying data is queryable at permits.ustechautomations.com, and if you want permit-driven monitoring or lead routing built for your trade and territory, get in touch.

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