Median Permit in 94114: $25,000 on 63 Filings — June 2026

So what is actually getting built in 94114 right now? Over the 30 days from May 11 – June 9, 2026, this slice of central San Francisco — the Castro, Eureka Valley, and the slopes running up toward Twin Peaks — recorded 63 residential permits carrying $7.2M in declared construction value. The headline answer to the title question is unglamorous and very Edwardian-flat-and-Victorian: almost all of it is interior alteration work on homes that already exist, not ground-up building.

The single largest slice is over-the-counter alteration work, with 52 permits filed under the OTC Alterations type and a typical job sitting at a $25,000 median valuation. Those are the numbers behind the question, and the rest of this report unpacks what each category actually means, who pulls these permits, and how 94114 sits against the other busy ZIPs in the city. Every figure here is a slice of San Francisco's sealed citywide snapshot — we did not pull a separate 94114 dataset, we cut the one we already seal each day down to this ZIP.

A building permit is a jurisdiction's recorded authorization to perform construction, alteration, or repair on a specific property, and a sealed snapshot is a daily, hash-fixed copy of that public record that cannot be quietly edited after the fact. This report reads one such snapshot for one ZIP. It does not forecast, it does not compare to last month, and it does not claim to count every nail driven in the Castro — only the residential permits San Francisco published in the window.

Key Findings for 94114

• 63 residential permits were recorded in ZIP 94114 over the window, according to San Francisco Department of Building Inspection via data.sfgov.org (Socrata).

• Those permits carried $7.2M in total declared construction value, according to San Francisco Department of Building Inspection via data.sfgov.org (Socrata).

• The typical job ran a $25,000 median valuation, a figure that tells you most work here is renovation, not new structures.

• OTC Alterations is the dominant permit type, with 52 permits in the window, according to US Tech Automations' sealed permit snapshots.

• Across the whole city, San Francisco logged 952 permits worth $68.9M in the same window — 94114 is one busy residential slice of that total.

In the 30 days ending June 9, 2026, ZIP 94114 recorded 63 residential permits worth $7.2M, with a median job valued at $25,000.

That bolded summary is the whole post in one line: a steady, mid-density renovation market where the volume comes from small interior jobs rather than a handful of large builds. The scope here is deliberately narrow — single-family and small multi-family residential — so a reader can trust that "63" means homes, not office towers or transit work.

ZIP 94114 Permit Activity, May 11 – June 9, 2026

The table below is the core of the 94114 cut. Permit count and total valuation come straight from the sealed San Francisco snapshot, filtered to this ZIP; the median is the midpoint job value across permits in the window.

Read that $25,000 median next to the $7.2M total and a clear shape emerges. If the typical permit is valued around twenty-five thousand dollars, the bulk of 94114's activity is kitchen-and-bath-scale renovation, dry rot and seismic retrofit work, deck rebuilds, and the kind of permit-required electrical and plumbing upgrades that older Victorian and Edwardian housing stock constantly demands.

The total climbs well above what 63 small jobs would imply on their own, which means a few larger remodels — whole-floor gut renovations or substantial additions — are sitting in the same window and pulling the sum up. That low-median, higher-total pattern is the signature of an established neighborhood being maintained and upgraded, not redeveloped.

A $25,000 median across 63 permits means most 94114 work is renovation-scale, with a few larger remodels lifting the $7.2M total.

What Is Getting Built in 94114 — Category by Category

This is the section that earns the page. San Francisco's permit records flatten into a handful of type labels, and in 94114 the work concentrates heavily in one of them. Below, each category gets its own read: what the label covers, what kind of job triggers it, and who pulls it.

OTC Alterations — the workhorse

The dominant category is OTC Alterations, recorded against the raw source label otc alterations permit, with 52 permits in the window. "OTC" is over-the-counter: these are alteration permits a property owner or contractor can obtain in a single counter visit (or its online equivalent) without a full plan-check review cycle, because the scope is bounded and the building department has decided the work is low enough risk to issue on the spot.

In practice, an OTC alteration in San Francisco covers the everyday interior remodel — replacing a kitchen, reworking a bathroom, swapping windows in kind, re-roofing, voluntary seismic strengthening of a soft-story garage level, electrical service upgrades, and like-for-like repairs after water or pest damage. What it deliberately excludes is anything that changes the building envelope or use in a way the city wants to plan-check: adding units, expanding the footprint, or altering the street-facing facade in a historic district.

The fact that 52 of 63 permits here are OTC tells you 94114 is mostly being remodeled from the inside out, within existing walls. For a remodel contractor, that is the single most actionable read in this entire report: the demand in this ZIP is interior renovation, and it is steady.

Additions, alterations, or repairs — the larger-scope cut

The citywide snapshot also carries a broader additions alterations or repairs category, which across all of San Francisco accounts for 50 permits in the window. Unlike OTC work, this label captures jobs substantial enough to need real plan review — building a rear addition, adding a bedroom over a garage, structurally reconfiguring floors, or a repair so extensive it touches the structure.

These are the permits behind the larger remodels that lift a neighborhood's total valuation above what small jobs alone would produce, and they are exactly the kind of project that pulls 94114's $7.2M total up past its $25,000 median. A general contractor or structural engineer is typically the one shepherding these through the city.

The bare "permit" bucket

The third citywide type is simply labeled permit, with 15 permits recorded — a catch-all for filings the source system did not slot into a more specific alteration label. It is small, and for neighborhood-level reading it mostly serves as a reminder that public permit data is messy at the edges: not every record self-classifies cleanly, which is one reason we seal the raw labels verbatim rather than re-bucketing them ourselves.

For reference, here is how those three labels break down across all of San Francisco in the same window — the citywide totals 94114 is a slice of:

The dominance of the over-the-counter label citywide — and even more so inside 94114 — confirms the read: San Francisco residential permitting in this window is overwhelmingly alteration work on existing homes.

Taken together, the category mix says 94114 is a renovation market dominated by quick-turn interior work, with a meaningful minority of larger, plan-checked additions and repairs underneath. If you want to see how this compares to a neighboring residential slice, the San Francisco 94112 report and the San Francisco 94131 report run the same cut on different ZIPs.

How 94114 Compares in San Francisco

A single ZIP only means something in context. The table below places 94114 against the other top residential ZIPs in the same sealed San Francisco snapshot, plus the citywide headline row, all over the identical window.

The comparison is where 94114 gets interesting. By permit count it sits in the middle of the pack — fewer filings than the high-volume western ZIPs like 94122 (99 permits) and 94116 (95 permits) — yet its $7.2M total outranks every one of those busier ZIPs except 94118 at $9.7M. In other words, 94114 generates more dollars of declared construction value from fewer permits than the Sunset-side ZIPs do.

ZIP 94114 ranks mid-pack by permit count but near the top by total valuation — fewer, larger renovation jobs than the high-volume western ZIPs.

That is exactly what you would expect from the Castro and Eureka Valley: pricier housing stock, more ambitious whole-home remodels, and additions on properties where the renovation budget reflects the underlying real-estate value. For an agent or appraiser, the signal is that permit dollars — not just permit counts — are concentrated here.

The metro itself ranks #2 among the edition's eight metros by permit volume and #5 by total valuation, so San Francisco is a high-activity market overall, and 94114 is one of its higher-value-per-permit corners. Readers tracking the broader metro should see the San Francisco building permit report for June 2026 and, for cross-market context, a comparable Austin neighborhood report.

Methodology

Every figure in this report is a ZIP-level slice of the same sealed citywide snapshot we compute daily for San Francisco — we do not maintain a separate 94114 feed. The underlying source is the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection via data.sfgov.org (Socrata).

Honesty statement: All figures are computed directly from US Tech Automations' sealed daily permit snapshots; nothing is estimated, modeled, or extrapolated.

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. So when this report says 94114 recorded 63 permits, it means 63 residential permits matching that scope — not every filing the city processed.

The pipeline runs in four plain steps:

1. Collect. Pull the day's residential permit records for San Francisco directly from the Socrata endpoint at data.sfgov.org.

2. Normalize. Map raw fields to a common schema, preserve the source category labels verbatim, and tag each record with its ZIP.

3. Seal daily. Hash the day's normalized records into an append-only snapshot so the historical record cannot be silently altered.

4. Aggregate. Over the May 11 – June 9, 2026 window, filter the sealed snapshots to ZIP 94114 and sum permits and valuation, then take the median across that slice.

Because this is a single cross-sectional window, the report makes no month-over-month or trend claims. It is a photograph, not a film. The full citywide totals and the sealed prediction record behind this edition live in the San Francisco June 2026 report and the permit prediction ledger.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Is this every construction permit pulled in 94114?
A: No. The 63 permits are residential building permits only — single-family and small multi-family. Commercial and sub-trade permits are excluded at ingest, so this is not a count of all construction permits issued in the ZIP. It is a deliberately scoped residential cut.

Q: Why is the median valuation only $25,000 when the total is $7.2M?
A: Because most permits here are small. A $25,000 median across 63 permits means the typical job is renovation-scale, while a few much larger remodels and additions lift the $7.2M total well above what the small jobs alone would produce.

Q: What does an OTC Alterations permit actually cover?
A: Over-the-counter alterations are bounded interior or like-for-like jobs the city issues without full plan check — kitchen and bath remodels, re-roofing, window swaps, electrical upgrades, voluntary seismic work. In 94114, 52 of 63 permits fell in this type.

Q: Who pulls these permits?
A: Mostly homeowners and the remodel contractors working for them for the OTC jobs, and general contractors or structural engineers for the larger additions, alterations, or repairs that need plan review. The mix here leans heavily toward the quick-turn interior work.

Q: How does 94114 compare to the rest of San Francisco?
A: It is mid-pack by permit count but near the top by dollars — its $7.2M total beats busier ZIPs like 94122 (99 permits) and 94116 (95 permits). The city as a whole logged 952 permits worth $68.9M in the same window.

Q: Can I trust these numbers will not change later?
A: Yes. Each day's records are hashed into an append-only sealed snapshot, so the figures behind this report are fixed and verifiable rather than editable after publication.

Put Permit Data to Work

A 30-day residential permit cut for one ZIP is not trivia — it is a working signal for everyone who sells into renovation demand. A remodel contractor reads 94114's 52 OTC Alterations permits and knows interior work is where the steady jobs are. A materials supplier times inventory to the cadence of permits being pulled. A lender reads the $7.2M of declared value as a measure of renovation appetite in a high-value neighborhood. An agent reads permit activity as a pre-listing signal — homes being upgraded often come to market next.

The hard part has never been that this data is secret; San Francisco publishes it. The hard part is turning a daily public feed into a workflow that actually reaches the right person at the right moment. That is the gap US Tech Automations closes. We run the same sealed-snapshot discipline you see in this report and wire it into automation: monitoring permit feeds as they update, routing matched records to the people who can act on them, and drafting the first-touch outreach so a contractor or supplier is not re-reading the city portal by hand.

You can browse the live permit corpus this report draws on at permits.ustechautomations.com, and you can see how we build permit signals into real-estate workflows at our real-estate AI agents page. For a neighboring slice of the same market, the San Francisco 94121 report runs the identical cut one ZIP over.

We publish these sealed cuts so the underlying discipline is visible: the same snapshots that power our automations are the ones you can read here.

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