What Is Getting Built in 94122, San Francisco? — June 2026

What is getting built in 94122? Mostly small, fast-turnaround alteration work — and more of it than anywhere else in San Francisco. Between May 11 – June 9, 2026, this Sunset District ZIP recorded 99 residential building permits with a combined declared valuation of $4.6M and a median permit value of $20,000 — the highest permit count of any ZIP code in the citywide snapshot.

Every figure in this report is a ZIP-level slice of the same sealed daily snapshots behind the citywide San Francisco 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 94122 recorded 99 residential building permits, the most of any San Francisco ZIP code this window, according to US Tech Automations' sealed permit snapshots.

• Declared valuation in 94122 totaled $4.6M, at a $20,000 median, per the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection via data.sfgov.org (Socrata).

• OTC Alterations accounted for 94 of the ZIP's 99 permits, per the same sealed daily snapshots.

• Adjacent 94116 followed with 95 permits; 94110 logged 84, according to the sealed daily snapshots.

• Citywide, San Francisco sealed 952 permits worth $68.9M at 100% coverage, per the Department of Building Inspection feed.

How 94122 Compares in San Francisco

The fastest way to understand 94122 is to set it against the rest of the city. The table below lists San Francisco's most active ZIP codes in this window — same sealed snapshot, same residential-only scope, same May 11 – June 9, 2026 reporting window — with the citywide totals as the bottom row.

Two stories sit in that table. The first is volume, and it belongs to the west side. 94122 leads the city at 99 permits, and the adjacent Sunset and Parkside ZIP, 94116, follows at 95 — the two ZIP codes flanking Sunset Boulevard hold the top of the count column outright. The Mission's 94110 comes next at 84 permits, with 94112, covering the Excelsior and Ingleside, close behind at 81.

The second story is dollars, and it runs the other way. 94118 — the Inner Richmond and Laurel Heights — posted the largest declared valuation of any ZIP in the table, $9.7M, on a count of 63. 94114, covering the Castro and Noe Valley, carried $7.2M on the same number of permits. The pattern is hard to miss: the north-and-central neighborhoods are writing fewer, larger permits, while the Avenues are writing many small ones.

94122's median permit is $20,000 — barely above the citywide median of $19,395. The Sunset is not building bigger than the rest of San Francisco; it is permitting more often.

Set against the whole city, the slice stays consistent. San Francisco logged 952 residential permits worth $68.9M in the window, with 100% valuation coverage, and ranks #2 by permit count among the 8 metros tracked this edition — the full picture is in the San Francisco building permit report. Within that picture, 94122's $4.6M total marks it as a volume market, not a valuation market: lots of jobs, modest tickets.

ZIP 94122 Permit Activity, May 11 – June 9, 2026

The $20,000 median is the most useful number here for sizing the typical job. Citywide, the middle half of San Francisco's valued permits falls between $8,700 and $48,018, and 94122's median sits squarely inside that band. In plain terms: the typical permit in this ZIP is a renovation-scale project — a kitchen, a bathroom, a dry-rot repair, a window package — not an addition with full plans, and certainly not ground-up construction.

Note what the total does and does not say. $4.6M of declared valuation spread across 99 permits describes many modest jobs stacked together rather than a few large ones dragging the sum upward. For citywide context, the single largest permit anywhere in San Francisco this window carried a $6,000,000 valuation; 94122's market is the opposite end of that spectrum — volume over headline size.

One definitional note: declared valuation is the value of work stated on the permit application at filing. It is a regulatory figure, not a market appraisal, and contractors have incentives to state it conservatively. It is still the most consistent public signal of where renovation money is being committed, parcel by parcel.

What Is Getting Built in 94122

The answer, overwhelmingly, is over-the-counter alteration work. Of the ZIP's 99 permits in the window, 94 carry the city's otc alterations permit label — rendered as OTC Alterations in our friendly taxonomy.

94 of the 99 residential permits sealed in 94122 between May 11 – June 9, 2026 were OTC Alterations — over-the-counter approvals, not ground-up construction.

In San Francisco, the Department of Building Inspection routes qualifying small-scope residential work through an over-the-counter process: the contractor or homeowner brings the job to the counter, review happens on the spot or with minimal plan check for in-kind work, and the permit issues without entering the longer full-review queue. Work that typically qualifies includes in-kind kitchen and bathroom remodels, dry-rot and termite damage repair, like-for-like window replacement, re-roofing, and interior finish upgrades — projects that do not change a building's envelope, footprint, or use.

That process fits the Sunset's housing stock unusually well. 94122 — the Inner and Outer Sunset, running from the edge of Golden Gate Park out toward Ocean Beach — is dominated by attached, stucco-clad single-family rows built in the first half of the last century. Homes of that vintage, sitting in the city's heaviest fog belt, generate constant maintenance-scale work: moisture and dry-rot repair, window and exterior renewal, and interior updates to decades-old kitchens and baths. The permit ledger reads exactly like that housing stock would predict.

The ZIP also mirrors the city's overall category mix. The labels below are reproduced verbatim from the sealed snapshots, at the citywide level:

94122's 94 OTC permits sit inside that citywide 883 — the ZIP is a concentrated expression of how San Francisco permits residential work generally. The heavier additions alterations or repairs class, which covers projects requiring full plan review such as structural changes and additions, accounts for 50 permits citywide; the breakdown of 94122's remaining permits beyond its top category is not separately reported in this edition. For the full citywide picture of the dominant category, see the San Francisco OTC alterations report.

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 ZIP-level figure in this report is a slice of the metro's sealed snapshot — the same records behind the citywide San Francisco report, filtered to those carrying the 94122 ZIP code — not a separate collection. Scope is residential building permits (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 each city. The edition is also cross-sectional: it reports this window on its own terms and makes no claims about prior periods.

The pipeline behind every number in this report:

1. Collect. Pull the residential permit feed from data.sfgov.org every day via the Socrata API, retaining the ZIP code on each record.

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

3. Seal daily. Hash each day's normalized snapshot into an append-only, content-addressed store, so figures cannot be silently revised after the fact.

4. Aggregate. Compute ZIP-level counts, totals, and medians directly from the sealed snapshots over the May 11 – June 9, 2026 reporting window.

This ZIP report is one slice of a June 2026 edition spanning 8 metros, 7,334 residential permits, and $688.3M in declared valuation at 84% coverage. The same sealing discipline underpins our permit prediction ledger, where predictions are committed to the record before outcomes are observable — sealing first and publishing second is the whole point.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How many residential building permits were issued in ZIP 94122 in the latest reporting window?
A: 99 residential building permits between May 11 – June 9, 2026, with a combined declared valuation of $4.6M and a median of $20,000, according to San Francisco Department of Building Inspection data via data.sfgov.org (Socrata), captured in sealed daily snapshots.

Q: Is 94122 the most active ZIP code in San Francisco for residential permits?
A: By permit count, yes: 99 permits, ahead of 94116 at 95 and 94110 at 84. By declared dollars it is not — 94118 posted $9.7M and 94114 posted $7.2M, each on 63 permits, well above 94122's $4.6M total. Volume and valuation lead in different neighborhoods.

Q: What does an OTC Alterations permit actually cover?
A: Over-the-counter approval for small-scope residential work — in-kind kitchen and bath remodels, dry-rot repair, like-for-like window replacement, re-roofing, and interior upgrades that do not change a building's envelope or use. In 94122, OTC Alterations made up 94 of the ZIP's 99 permits this window.

Q: Who pulls these permits in the Sunset?
A: Mostly small general contractors, specialty trades — roofing, window, and dry-rot contractors in particular — and homeowners doing in-kind remodels. The over-the-counter process is built for licensed professionals and owners with straightforward scopes, which is exactly the profile of work an aging, fog-exposed housing stock produces.

Q: Does this report count every construction project in 94122?
A: No. 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, and the figures should not be compared against citywide permit totals from other sources.

Q: Why is the median permit value in 94122 only $20,000?
A: Because the flow is dominated by small alteration jobs rather than additions or new construction. The figure is consistent with the city as a whole: San Francisco's citywide median is $19,395, and the middle half of valued permits citywide falls between $8,700 and $48,018. 94122's typical job sits squarely in that renovation band.

Put Permit Data to Work

For anyone working the Sunset, this slice is operational, not academic. Contractors and remodelers use ZIP-level counts to decide whether a neighborhood justifies marketing spend — a ZIP issuing 99 residential permits in 30 days is an active one. Window, roofing, and dry-rot specialists can read an OTC-dominated mix as their exact demand profile. Suppliers time inventory and counter stock to that renovation cadence.

The signal works for the property side too. Agents read a fresh permit on an aging row house as a pre-listing indicator — owners often permit kitchens and baths shortly before selling — and lenders read declared valuations as ground truth on where money is actually entering the housing stock, block by block.

US Tech Automations turns these permit signals into automated workflows: monitoring new permits as they appear in the jurisdiction feed, routing qualified records to the right territory, and drafting outreach grounded in sealed, verifiable data rather than scraped guesswork. Explore the underlying permit corpus at permits.ustechautomations.com, or contact us to scope a monitoring or lead-routing workflow for your market.

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