What Is Getting Built in 94124, San Francisco?

Read the shape before the size. A $0.4M total spread across a $16,000 median job is the signature of a neighborhood doing many small, similar jobs — not a few headline projects pulling the average up. That is the answer to the title question for ZIP 94124 in San Francisco: the work getting built here is modest, repeatable alteration work, and the people behind it are homeowners and small remodel crews, not large developers.

That distribution matters more than the headcount. When the median job and the per-job spending sit close together, almost every permit in the ZIP is a kitchen, a bath, a system swap, or a code-driven repair — the daily bread of a residential trades market. Over the May 11 – June 9, 2026 reporting window, ZIP 94124 recorded 21 residential building permits, and every figure on this page is a slice of San Francisco's sealed daily snapshot for that same window.

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. A sealed snapshot is a daily, hashed, append-only record of what a public permit feed published that day — fixed at capture so the numbers cannot be quietly revised later.

What the 94124 Numbers Say in One Read

This post answers a single question — what is getting built in 94124 — by reading San Francisco's sealed permit snapshot at the ZIP level: how many permits, how much declared value, what kind of work, and where this corner of the city sits among San Francisco's busier permit ZIPs. Everything below is cross-sectional, describing one 30-day window on its own terms with no comparison to past periods.

• ZIP 94124 sealed 21 residential building permits in the window, according to the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection via data.sfgov.org (Socrata).

• Declared valuation for the ZIP totals $0.4M for the window, per the same sealed daily permit snapshots.

• The median permit in 94124 is valued at $16,000, according to the Department of Building Inspection feed.

• The otc alterations permit category covers 18 of the ZIP's permits, per the sealed daily permit snapshots.

• Citywide, San Francisco sealed 952 residential permits at a $19,395 median, per the sealed daily permit snapshots.

How 94124 Sits Among San Francisco's Permit ZIPs

The clearest way to read one ZIP is against its neighbors in the same city, measured the same way over the same window. The table below ranks San Francisco's busier residential permit ZIPs by permit count, with 94124 in its place near the bottom and the citywide line for reference. Total valuation is shown in compact form; an em dash marks a figure the slice does not break out.

The narrative hangs off that bottom row. With 21 permits, 94124 is a quiet corner of a city whose busiest ZIPs — 94122 at 99 permits, 94116 at 95, 94110 at 84 — each clear four times its volume. The Bayview-Hunters Point ZIP is not where San Francisco's renovation churn concentrates; it is a steadier, lower-count market.

ZIP 94124 sealed 21 residential building permits worth $0.4M in the window, against a citywide 952 permits worth $68.9M.

Look at the value column, not just the counts, and a second pattern appears. Several ZIPs carry far more declared value on similar volume — 94118 reports $9.7M and 94114 reports $7.2M, while 94124's $0.4M is the lightest line in the table. A neighborhood can permit a handful of jobs and still post a large total if a few are big; 94124 does the opposite, which is exactly what a $16,000 median predicts. The work is small and even.

San Francisco ranks #2 among the 8 metros by permit count and #5 by total declared valuation this edition, per the cross-metro snapshot. Within that city, 94124 is a low-volume, low-value tile — useful precisely because it is predictable. You can see the citywide picture in the San Francisco building permit report, which sits over this same sealed snapshot.

What Is Getting Built in 94124

Now to the title question directly. Here are the ZIP's headline figures for the window, read straight off the sealed San Francisco snapshot:

The dominant permit type in ZIP 94124 is the otc alterations permit category, which the city labels OTC Alterations and which covers 18 of the ZIP's permits in the window.

"OTC" stands for over-the-counter: a streamlined San Francisco permit issued the same day a homeowner or contractor walks into (or files with) the Department of Building Inspection, without the plan-check cycle a larger project requires. It is the permit you pull for interior alterations that do not touch the building's footprint or structure in a major way — replacing a kitchen, reworking a bathroom, upgrading electrical or plumbing, finishing or reconfiguring interior space, swapping in new windows or a furnace.

That an OTC alterations permit covers 18 of 94124's permits is the whole story of the ZIP in one fact. This is a neighborhood maintaining and modernizing its existing housing stock, not building new homes. The jobs behind these permits are the kind a single crew completes in days or weeks, repeated across the area — the literal definition of a market made of many small, similar jobs.

The OTC alterations permit category covers 18 of ZIP 94124's permits — over-the-counter alteration and repair work, not ground-up construction.

For anyone reading the neighborhood as a market, the implication is concrete. The opportunity here is renovation-scale and frequent rather than large-ticket and rare: remodel contractors, electricians, plumbers, window and HVAC installers, and the suppliers who serve them. The $16,000 median is consistent with that — it is a typical alteration-job number, not a gut-renovation or new-construction number. The same OTC alterations permit category dominates San Francisco citywide, so 94124 is running the city's pattern at a smaller scale.

How These Figures Are Produced

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 number on this page is a ZIP-level cut of the same sealed citywide snapshot the metro report draws on. We do not pull a separate 94124 feed; we filter the sealed San Francisco records to permits in this ZIP, over the May 11 – June 9, 2026 window, and read the counts, the declared values, and the category label straight off those records. Because the window is one 30-day slice and the sealed history needed for trend claims does not yet exist, this report is strictly cross-sectional — no month-over-month or year-over-year framing.

The pipeline behind every figure:

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, ZIP, declared valuation, category label — and exclude 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 a figure cannot be silently revised after capture.

4. Slice and aggregate. Filter the sealed San Francisco snapshots to ZIP 94124 and compute the window counts, totals, and median directly — no interpolation, no modeling.

That sealing discipline is the same one behind our permit prediction ledger, where forecasts are committed to the record before any outcome is observable. Sealing first and publishing second is the point: these ZIP figures were fixed at capture, so a reader can hold them to account.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How many building permits did ZIP 94124 record in the latest window?
A: 21 residential building permits between May 11 – June 9, 2026, according to San Francisco Department of Building Inspection data published via data.sfgov.org (Socrata) and captured in sealed daily snapshots. The figure covers single-family and small multi-family work only, as a slice of the citywide sealed snapshot.

Q: Is this every construction permit pulled in 94124?
A: No. The dataset covers 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 the 21-permit figure should not be compared against broader citywide permit totals from other sources.

Q: Why is the median permit in 94124 only $16,000?
A: Because the work is small and even. A $16,000 median against a $0.4M total for 21 permits means most jobs cluster around the same modest size — interior alterations and repairs rather than gut renovations or new builds. The dominant OTC alterations permit category, covering 18 permits, is exactly the kind of work that produces that number.

Q: What does an OTC alterations permit actually cover?
A: OTC is San Francisco's over-the-counter permit — issued without the full plan-check cycle for interior alterations that do not substantially change a building's structure or footprint. Think kitchen and bath remodels, electrical or plumbing upgrades, window or furnace swaps, and interior reconfiguration. It is the workhorse permit for maintaining and modernizing existing homes.

Q: How does 94124 compare to other San Francisco ZIPs?
A: It is a low-volume corner. Busier ZIPs like 94122 (99 permits), 94116 (95), and 94110 (84) each run several times 94124's 21 permits, and higher-value ZIPs like 94118 ($9.7M) dwarf its $0.4M total. Citywide, San Francisco sealed 952 permits at a $19,395 median this window.

Q: Who pulls these permits in a neighborhood like this?
A: Homeowners and small remodel crews, overwhelmingly. The OTC alterations mix and the $16,000 median point to renovation-scale work — remodelers, electricians, plumbers, window and HVAC installers — rather than developers running large projects. That is the profile of demand a contractor or supplier would plan around in 94124.

Put This Neighborhood to Work

Permit data at this resolution earns its keep for the people who act on it the week it lands. A remodel contractor uses a ZIP-level read like 94124 to decide whether a neighborhood justifies marketing spend before committing it. Building-product suppliers time inventory and outreach to homes that have just been permitted. Real estate agents read fresh alteration permits as pre-listing signals — a renovated home is often a home headed to market. Lenders treat declared valuations as a ground-truth measure of where money is actually going into housing.

US Tech Automations turns these permit signals into automated workflows: monitoring new permits as they post to jurisdiction feeds, routing qualified records to the right territory or rep, and drafting outreach grounded in sealed, verifiable data rather than scraped guesswork. For a low-churn ZIP like 94124, the value is catching every one of those 21-permit-a-month jobs the day it appears, instead of missing the few that do come through.

You can explore the underlying permit corpus at permits.ustechautomations.com, see how a busier corner of the city reads in our San Francisco metro permit report, or compare a higher-volume San Francisco neighborhood in our Potrero Hill and Mission Bay ZIP report. When you are ready to put a market on autopilot, US Tech Automations builds the monitoring and lead-routing layer for real estate teams at /ai-agents/real-estate.

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