$5.3M of Permitted Work in ZIP 94115, San Francisco — June 2026

Money is the cleaner signal here. Inside San Francisco ZIP 94115 — the slice of the city that runs through Pacific Heights and the Western Addition — sealed records show $5.3M of declared residential permitted work in the May 11 – June 9, 2026 window. That dollar figure rides on just 31 permits, a small enough count that the value, not the volume, is what tells you who is building.

Every number on this page is a slice of San Francisco's sealed metro snapshot, cut to the 94115 postal boundary. Scope is 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. A sealed snapshot is a daily record hashed at capture, so the figures cannot be quietly revised after the fact.

Key Findings

• ZIP 94115 recorded 31 residential permits in the window, per US Tech Automations' sealed permit snapshots.

• Declared valuation in 94115 reached $5.3M, according to the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection via data.sfgov.org (Socrata).

• The median 94115 permit is valued at $26,600, above the citywide median of $19,395, per the sealed snapshots.

• OTC Alterations is the top category in 94115, with 27 permits, per the sealed daily permit snapshots.

• 94115 sits inside a city that sealed 952 permits and $68.9M this window, according to the same Socrata feed.

Frequently Asked Questions

We lead with the questions because most readers arrive at a ZIP-level page with one of them already in mind. Each answer is built only from sealed figures.

Q: How many residential building permits did ZIP 94115 record in the window?
A: 31 residential permits between May 11 – June 9, 2026, drawn from San Francisco Department of Building Inspection data on data.sfgov.org (Socrata) and held in sealed daily snapshots. The count covers single-family and small multi-family work only — commercial and sub-trade permits are excluded before the ZIP is ever cut.

Q: Is $5.3M the value of all construction in 94115?
A: No. The $5.3M figure is the declared valuation of residential permits only, inside this one ZIP, over this one 30-day window. It excludes commercial work, sub-trade permits, and anything filed outside the window. Read it as a focused residential-renovation signal, not a total construction spend for the neighborhood.

Q: Why is the 94115 median permit valued at $26,600?
A: $26,600 is the middle of 94115's permit values: half the permits are declared below it, half above. It runs higher than San Francisco's citywide median of $19,395, which suggests the typical job in this ZIP is a step up from the city's most common small alteration — but it is still renovation-scale, not ground-up construction.

Q: What is an OTC Alterations permit?
A: OTC Alterations — recorded in the raw feed as otc alterations permit — is San Francisco's over-the-counter path for interior and minor alteration work that needs no extended plan review. A homeowner or contractor can pull one the same day for jobs like kitchen and bath remodels, layout changes, or system upgrades. It is the workhorse permit of city renovation.

Q: Who pulls these permits in 94115?
A: General contractors and remodelers acting for homeowners, plus owners filing directly for smaller jobs. With 27 of the ZIP's permits in the OTC Alterations category, the work skews toward alteration and repair rather than new builds, which points to an established housing stock being upgraded one property at a time.

Q: How does 94115 rank inside San Francisco?
A: By permit count, 94115's 31 permits place it below the city's busiest residential ZIPs — 94122 logged 99 and 94116 logged 95 in the same window. On the dollar side, 94115's $5.3M total sits in the upper band of the per-ZIP table, a reminder that count and declared value tell different stories.

ZIP 94115 Permit Activity, May 11 – June 9, 2026

The 94115 slice is compact and value-dense. Thirty-one residential permits, $5.3M declared, a $26,600 median: those three figures frame the whole neighborhood for the window. The median sitting above the citywide $19,395 is the detail worth holding onto.

ZIP 94115 sealed 31 residential permits and $5.3M of declared work in the window, at a $26,600 median — above San Francisco's citywide $19,395 median.

A higher median against a small count is a meaningful shape. It says the permits that did get pulled in 94115 lean toward larger, better-funded jobs than the city's most common alteration. We make no estimate beyond the sealed figures, but for anyone reading this neighborhood as a market, that is a different profile from a high-volume, low-median ZIP. For the citywide distribution that frames it — including the $8,700 and $48,018 quartile band San Francisco's permits fall across — the San Francisco metro permit report carries the full picture.

What Is Getting Built in 94115

The category mix in 94115 is concentrated. OTC Alterations — the over-the-counter alterations permit — is the top type, with 27 of the ZIP's permits. Everything else in the neighborhood is a thin remainder around that one dominant path.

So what does that permit actually authorize? An OTC Alterations permit covers interior and minor alteration work that does not need extended plan review: reconfiguring a kitchen, renovating bathrooms, opening up a floor plan, replacing windows in kind, or upgrading electrical and plumbing inside an existing footprint. It is over-the-counter precisely because the scope is contained — the city can approve it on the spot rather than routing it through a multi-week review.

That 27-permit concentration is the texture of an established, built-out neighborhood. Pacific Heights and the Western Addition are not absorbing new subdivisions; their housing stock is being modernized unit by unit. When alteration permits dominate like this, the work behind them is renovation: existing owners and their contractors improving what is already standing. The $26,600 median fits — these are substantial remodels, not cosmetic touch-ups, but they are not new construction either.

It also tells you something about timing. Over-the-counter permits clear fast, so the work behind them tends to start fast: there is no long entitlement runway between the permit and the first trade on site. For a supplier or subcontractor, a freshly pulled OTC Alterations permit in 94115 is a near-term opportunity, not a project years out. The narrow category spread reinforces that read — when nearly every permit in a ZIP is the same over-the-counter type, the demand is homogeneous and quick to act on, rather than a scatter of unrelated project types each on its own schedule.

For the trades, that distribution is the actionable part. A ZIP running on alteration permits generates a steady stream of remodel-scale projects — frequent, mid-ticket, contractor-led — rather than the long-cycle leads a ground-up market produces. Suppliers and remodelers reading 94115 should expect renovation demand, and they should expect it spread across many individual properties. The sibling ZIP reports for 94134 and 94117 apply the same cut to their own neighborhoods, and the category mix shifts as the housing stock changes.

How 94115 Compares Across San Francisco

Reading one ZIP in isolation hides the shape of the city. Set 94115 against San Francisco's other top residential ZIPs and the metro headline, and its position becomes legible: modest by count, healthy by declared value. The table below draws every row from the same sealed snapshot.

Among San Francisco's busiest residential ZIPs, 94115's 31 permits are among the lowest counts — yet its $5.3M declared total outruns several ZIPs with two and three times the permit volume.

The contrast is the point. ZIP 94122 leads on volume with 99 permits but $4.6M in declared value; 94115 records far fewer permits at 31, yet seals $5.3M. A neighborhood can carry more declared dollars on fewer, larger jobs — which is exactly what 94115's above-city median signals. At the top of the value column, 94118 reaches $9.7M and 94114 reaches $7.2M, both on 63 permits; at the busy end, 94116's 95 permits and 94112's 81 each declare $4.8M. The 952-permit, $68.9M metro row is the backdrop every ZIP slices out of.

None of these rows compares one ZIP's past to its present — the sealed history for that does not exist yet. They compare neighborhoods to each other, in the same window, under one ingest rule. That is what makes the table fair: the differences are differences between places, not between methods.

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.

Every 94115 figure on this page is a slice of the same San Francisco metro snapshot, filtered to the postal boundary. The ZIP-level numbers are not a separate dataset — they are the city's sealed records, cut to one neighborhood, over the May 11 – June 9, 2026 window. This edition is cross-sectional: it reports the window on its own terms and makes no comparison to prior periods, because the sealed history needed for trend claims does not yet exist.

The pipeline behind every number:

1. Collect. Pull San Francisco's residential permit feed from the Department of Building Inspection dataset on data.sfgov.org via Socrata every day.

2. Normalize. Map each record to a common schema — permit identifier, issue date, declared valuation, category label, postal code — excluding commercial and sub-trade permit types at ingest.

3. Seal daily. Hash each day's normalized snapshot and append it to a content-addressed store, so figures cannot be silently revised after capture.

4. Slice and aggregate. Filter the sealed metro snapshot to ZIP 94115 and compute counts, declared totals, and the median directly over the reporting window — no interpolation.

This is the same sealing discipline that underpins our permit prediction ledger, where predictions are committed to the record before outcomes can be observed. The whole point of sealing first and publishing second is accountability: these figures were fixed at capture, so a reader can hold them to the source.

Put Permit Data to Work

Permit data at the ZIP level earns its keep for the people working one neighborhood at a time. A remodeler farming Pacific Heights and the Western Addition can qualify 94115 as renovation-heavy before spending on marketing. Building-product suppliers time outreach to projects the week they are permitted. Real estate agents read alteration activity as a pre-listing signal — owners renovating today are often owners preparing to sell. Lenders treat declared valuations as ground truth on where money is actually going into housing stock.

US Tech Automations turns these permit signals into automated workflows: monitoring new permits as they surface in jurisdiction feeds, routing qualified records to the right territory, and drafting outreach grounded in sealed, verifiable data rather than scraped guesswork. The underlying corpus is browsable at permits.ustechautomations.com. To scope a monitoring or lead-routing workflow on a market you care about, we build it on the same sealed snapshots behind this report — see how the real estate automation agents put neighborhood permit signals to work.

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