Median Permit in 94127: $21,500 on 62 Filings — June 2026

The hilltop ZIP that wraps West Portal, St. Francis Wood, and Sherwood Forest pulled 62 permits between May 11 – June 9, 2026 — a single, compact slice of San Francisco's residential building activity, sealed daily and tallied for one rolling window. This report is that slice and nothing more: ZIP 94127 inside San Francisco, CA, read straight off the same sealed daily snapshots that feed every metro tracked in this edition.

The scope is narrow on purpose. These are 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 building permit, in plain terms, is the city's written sign-off that a planned alteration meets code before anyone swings a hammer. Counting them by ZIP turns a pile of bureaucratic paperwork into a map of where homeowners are actually spending. In 94127, that map points almost entirely at one kind of job, with a median valuation that tells you these are improvements, not teardowns.

Why This One ZIP Is Worth a Page

Here is the whole report in a breath: across the May 11 – June 9, 2026 window, ZIP 94127 recorded 62 permits totaling $3.5M in declared valuation, with a median permit valued at $21,500 and nearly the entire slate falling into a single permit type. Read together, those figures describe a stable, owner-occupied neighborhood doing steady mid-range home improvement — kitchens, baths, seismic and systems work — rather than ground-up development. The sections below break down what that one dominant category actually covers, how 94127 stacks up against San Francisco's busier ZIPs, and how the snapshot was assembled.

ZIP 94127 logged 62 residential permits worth $3.5M in the 30-day window ending June 9, 2026 — per the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection via data.sfgov.org (Socrata).

Because this is the lead-with-questions edition, the FAQ comes early — most readers arrive at a ZIP report with three or four specific questions, and it is faster to answer them up front than to bury the answers in prose.

Key Findings

• 62 permits were filed in ZIP 94127 during the window, per the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection via data.sfgov.org (Socrata).

• The ZIP carried $3.5M in total declared valuation across those filings, per the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection via data.sfgov.org (Socrata).

• The median permit was valued at $21,500, according to the sealed daily snapshots.

• 59 of the filings were the ZIP's single dominant permit type, OTC Alterations, per the sealed snapshots.

• For context, all of San Francisco logged 952 residential permits in the same window, per the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection via data.sfgov.org (Socrata).

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Is this every construction permit in 94127?
A: No. This counts residential building permits only — single-family and small multi-family. Commercial and sub-trade permits are excluded at ingest, so the 62 permits here are a focused residential cut, not the ZIP total. It is the same scope applied to every San Francisco ZIP, which is what makes cross-ZIP comparison fair.

Q: Why is the median valuation $21,500 when one permit hit the city's $6,000,000 ceiling?
A: That ceiling belongs to San Francisco at large, not 94127. Inside this ZIP the median sits at $21,500, which means a typical permit here is a mid-sized home-improvement job. A median in that range, paired with 62 permits, describes many ordinary remodels rather than a handful of giant projects.

Q: What is an OTC Alterations permit?
A: OTC stands for over-the-counter — a permit issued the same day at the counter because the work is routine and pre-reviewed. In 94127 it was the top category with 59 filings under the raw label otc alterations permit. These cover interior remodels, window swaps, electrical and plumbing upgrades, and similar alteration work that does not need lengthy plan review.

Q: Who actually pulls these permits?
A: Mostly homeowners and the general contractors they hire. With 59 of the ZIP's permits being OTC alterations, the typical filer is a licensed contractor walking a remodel through the counter — not a developer. That pattern is a reliable read on owner-occupied, improvement-driven demand.

Q: How current is the 94127 data?
A: It reflects the rolling window of May 11 – June 9, 2026, computed from snapshots sealed each day. Every figure on this page is that window — there is no projection forward or backward.

Q: How does 94127 rank among San Francisco ZIPs?
A: It sits in the city's upper-middle tier. Busier ZIPs like 94122 reached 99 permits, while 94127 held 62 — fewer than the top of the table but well clear of the quieter end. See the comparison section below for the full lineup.

ZIP 94127 Permit Activity, May 11 – June 9, 2026

The headline numbers for the ZIP, drawn directly from the sealed snapshot slice:

A median permit valuation of $21,500 across 62 filings points to a neighborhood doing steady, mid-range home improvement rather than ground-up construction.

The gap between the $3.5M total and the $21,500 median is the most informative thing on this table. A total that size spread across 62 permits with a median in the low five figures means the work is bunched at the smaller end — dozens of routine remodels — with little of the high-dollar new construction that pushes other neighborhoods' totals up. For anyone reading the market, that distribution shape matters more than either number alone: it says the demand here is renovation demand, broadly held, not concentrated in a few large jobs.

What Is Getting Built in 94127

The category mix in 94127 is unusually lopsided. One permit type carries nearly the whole window:

With 59 of 62 permits filed as OTC Alterations (raw source label: otc alterations permit), 94127 is, for this window, almost a single-category ZIP. That concentration is itself the signal worth reading.

An over-the-counter alterations permit is the city's fast lane for routine residential work. Because the scope is pre-defined and low-risk, the counter can issue it the same day without a multi-week review cycle. In practice these permits cover the bread-and-butter of home improvement: reconfiguring a kitchen, redoing a bathroom, replacing windows, upgrading electrical panels and plumbing, finishing interior space, and the seismic and dry-rot repairs that older San Francisco housing stock constantly needs. The defining trait is that none of it changes the building's footprint or use in a way that demands deep architectural review.

When 59 of a ZIP's permits land in this bucket, the neighborhood is telling you something specific. It is a settled, owner-occupied area where people are investing in the homes they already live in rather than tearing down and rebuilding. There is little speculative development pressure and a steady drumbeat of maintenance and modernization. For a contractor, that is a predictable book of mid-sized remodel work. For a supplier, it is steady demand for finish materials — cabinetry, fixtures, windows, electrical and plumbing components — rather than structural goods. The mix is the lead, not a footnote.

How 94127 Compares in San Francisco

ZIP 94127 sits in the middle of San Francisco's residential permit pack. The table below places it against the city's other active ZIPs in the same window, with the San Francisco headline row for scale. (San Francisco logged the #2 permit volume across the 8 metros in this edition.)

Two things stand out. First, on volume, 94127's 62 permits put it just behind a tight cluster of west-side and central ZIPs and ahead of quieter areas like 94117 at 44. Second, on dollars, the $3.5M total in 94127 is modest next to ZIPs like 94118 at $9.7M or 94114 at $7.2M — which means similar or even fewer permit counts elsewhere are attached to larger jobs. 94127's profile is high-frequency, moderate-value: lots of routine improvement, not many big-ticket projects. That is a meaningful distinction for anyone deciding where their next customer is most likely to be.

For the neighboring picture, the 94121 ZIP report and the 94131 report cover sibling ZIPs from the same sealed snapshot.

Further south, the 94112 report reads another high-volume residential ZIP, and the San Francisco additions and repairs report drills into a single citywide category.

Methodology

Every figure on this page is a ZIP-level cut of the same sealed daily snapshots computed for San Francisco as a whole. The source is the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection via data.sfgov.org (Socrata). Nothing here is sampled or modeled: the 62 permits are the permits that fell inside ZIP 94127 across the window, period.

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

The scope filter is the same one applied to every metro: 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. Holding that filter constant is what lets a reader compare 94127 to 94122 or to the citywide total without correcting for definition drift.

The pipeline runs in a fixed order:

1. Collect. Pull the day's residential permit records from data.sfgov.org (Socrata), the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection feed.

2. Normalize. Map each record to a metro and ZIP, apply the residential scope filter, and standardize category labels and valuation fields.

3. Seal daily. Hash the normalized day and write it to an append-only, content-addressed store so the snapshot cannot be silently edited after the fact.

4. Aggregate. Sum and rank across the May 11 – June 9, 2026 window to produce the per-ZIP counts, valuations, and category mix shown here.

That seal step is the part that matters for trust: because each day is content-hashed and append-only, the 62 permits reported for 94127 are reproducible from the same sealed inputs at any later date.

Put Permit Data to Work

A single ZIP's permit slate is a working lead list once you read it for what it is. The 59 OTC Alterations permits in 94127 each represent a homeowner who has already decided to spend on their property — the highest-intent signal a remodeler, lender, or supplier can ask for.

• Contractors and remodelers use ZIP-level counts to qualify which neighborhoods carry enough steady work to justify marketing spend. A ZIP doing 62 permits of mostly mid-range alterations is a different target than one doing a few large new builds.

• Building-materials suppliers read the category mix to time inventory — a slate dominated by alterations points to finish materials, not structural lumber.

• Lenders and renovation financiers treat permit volume as renovation-demand demand they can underwrite against.

• Real estate agents read a steady permit drumbeat as a pre-listing signal: homes being improved are homes being prepared, sometimes to sell.

US Tech Automations turns these sealed permit signals into automated workflows — monitoring new filings by ZIP and category, routing the relevant ones to the right rep, and drafting the first outreach so a team acts on a permit while it is still fresh. The underlying snapshots are browsable at permits.ustechautomations.com, and the prediction work behind them is tracked in the permit prediction ledger. For a fuller citywide read, the San Francisco building permit report covers all 952 of the month's filings.

To see how US Tech Automations wires permit signals into real estate workflows end to end, explore our real estate AI agents.

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