36 Permits, $20,000 Median: ZIP 94132 — June 2026

Two numbers define ZIP 94132 this window, and the interesting part is the tension between them. The neighborhood pulled 36 residential building permits in the 30 days ending June 9, while the typical job carried a declared value of just $20,000. Modest volume, modest median — a quiet corner of the San Francisco permit map where the work is small, frequent, and almost entirely renovation rather than new construction.

This report covers ZIP 94132 inside San Francisco, CA, for the May 11 – June 9, 2026 reporting window. Every figure here is a slice of the city's sealed daily snapshot, filtered down to this one postal code. 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 94132.

What the 94132 Numbers Say at a Glance

A building permit is a jurisdiction's official authorization to perform a defined piece of construction or alteration, and in 94132 the overwhelming majority of those authorizations are small over-the-counter alteration jobs. The $20,000 median tells you that, on its own, before any category breakdown: this is a market of kitchens, baths, and routine residential improvements, not ground-up projects.

ZIP 94132 recorded 36 residential building permits at a $20,000 median in the May 11 – June 9, 2026 window, per US Tech Automations Research sealed snapshots.

• ZIP 94132 logged 36 residential building permits over the window, according to the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection via data.sfgov.org (Socrata).

• The median permit in 94132 is valued at $20,000, per the same sealed daily permit snapshots.

• Combined declared valuation for the ZIP reaches $1.4M, computed directly from sealed snapshots.

• OTC Alterations is the top category, with 35 permits in 94132, per the sealed daily permit snapshots.

• The citywide median sits at $19,395 across all 952 San Francisco permits, per the Department of Building Inspection feed.

Frequently Asked Questions

Leading with the questions a contractor, supplier, or agent actually asks when they open a ZIP-level report — the rest of this page is detail behind these answers.

Q: Is 36 permits a lot of activity for a single ZIP in San Francisco?
A: It is on the lighter end. San Francisco logged 952 residential permits citywide in the window, and the busiest ZIPs cleared into the high tens — 94122 led with 99. At 36, ZIP 94132 is a lower-volume slice of the same sealed snapshot, which fits its largely residential, build-out character.

Q: Why is the 94132 median only $20,000?
A: Because the work is small. A $20,000 median means the typical permit in 94132 is a routine residential alteration — interior remodels, repairs, and code-driven upgrades — rather than new construction. It tracks the citywide picture, where the median is $19,395 and over-the-counter alteration work dominates.

Q: What is an OTC Alterations permit?
A: OTC Alterations is San Francisco shorthand for an over-the-counter alterations permit — work approved at the counter without a full plan-review cycle. It covers contained interior jobs: a kitchen or bath remodel, a window or fixture swap, light electrical or plumbing reconfiguration. In 94132 it is the dominant category at 35 permits.

Q: Does this report include every permit pulled in 94132?
A: No. The dataset covers residential building permits only — single-family and small multi-family. Commercial and sub-trade permits are excluded at ingest. So these figures are a residential slice, not a count of all construction permits issued in the ZIP, and they should not be compared against citywide totals from other sources.

Q: Who actually pulls these permits?
A: In a market like 94132, mostly homeowners working through licensed general contractors, plus specialty trades on smaller alteration jobs. The $20,000 median points to owner-occupier renovation rather than developer activity, which shapes who a supplier or agent would want to reach in this ZIP.

Q: How current is this data?
A: It reflects the May 11 – June 9, 2026 window — a 30-day slice sealed daily as permits were captured. This edition is cross-sectional only: it reports the window on its own terms and makes no trend, growth, or prior-period comparison, because the sealed history needed for that does not yet exist.

ZIP 94132 Permit Activity, May 11 – June 9, 2026

The headline figures for the ZIP are compact. Over the 30-day window, 94132 recorded 36 residential building permits carrying a combined declared valuation of $1.4M, with the median permit valued at $20,000. There is no large-project tail inflating this slice the way one $6,000,000 permit shapes the citywide maximum — 94132 reads as a band of similarly sized small jobs.

That distribution matters more than the totals. When a median ($20,000) and the visible work both point to small alteration jobs, the implication is a neighborhood of steady, repeatable demand rather than a few headline projects. For anyone allocating time across San Francisco postal codes, 94132 is a place where the next job looks a lot like the last one — useful when you are sizing inventory or routing a sales territory.

What Is Getting Built in 94132

The category mix in 94132 is almost monolithic: OTC Alterations accounts for 35 of the ZIP's 36 permits in the window. The raw source label behind that friendly name is otc alterations permit, reproduced verbatim from the sealed snapshot. Citywide, the same otc alterations permit category carries 883 of San Francisco's permits — so 94132 is a concentrated, small-scale instance of the pattern that defines the whole city.

What does an over-the-counter alterations permit actually cover? It is the permit a property owner pulls for self-contained residential work that does not need a full architectural plan review — a bathroom or kitchen remodel, replacing windows or a deck, reconfiguring interior partitions, or swapping out fixtures and finishes. The trigger is straightforward: the moment a homeowner touches structure, egress, electrical, or plumbing in a way the code flags, an OTC permit is the path of least resistance.

For the trades, that concentration is the whole story. A ZIP where nearly every permit is an OTC Alteration produces renovation-scale leads — frequent, smaller-ticket projects on a short cycle — not the long-lead, high-valuation work that new-build neighborhoods generate. A flooring installer, cabinet supplier, or remodeling GC reading this slice sees a steady drumbeat of contained jobs.

The citywide context reinforces it: with the additions alterations or repairs category at 50 permits and a bare permit label at 15, San Francisco's residential flow is overwhelmingly alteration work, and 94132 is a clean small sample of that reality. The methodology behind every figure here is the same one our San Francisco metro report uses at the citywide level.

How 94132 Stacks Up Against San Francisco's Top ZIPs

ZIP 94132 sits toward the quieter end of the city's permit map. The busiest postal codes this window clustered well above it on volume, while 94132 holds a lower count with a modest valuation total. The table below places it against the metro's most active ZIPs and the citywide headline row, all drawn from the same sealed snapshot (valuation figures are shown in compact form as published in the display set).

Among San Francisco's tracked ZIPs this window, 94132 holds 36 permits at $1.4M in declared valuation, against a citywide 952 permits worth $68.9M.

The comparison is instructive without needing a single computed number. ZIP 94114 and 94118 each show 63 permits but very different valuation totals — $7.2M and $9.7M — meaning a heavier large-project component than a count alone reveals. ZIP 94132, by contrast, pairs its 36 permits with $1.4M, the lightest valuation total in the table: small jobs, small declared values, no outlier dragging the slice upward. To read a denser, higher-volume neighbor on the same methodology, the 94117 ZIP report and the 94115 ZIP report cover adjacent slices of this edition.

San Francisco as a whole sits at #2 by permit count and #5 by total valuation among the 8 metros in this edition. That citywide weight rides on volume, not job size — the $19,395 metro median is barely above 94132's $20,000. The distribution shape the city is known for, many small alteration permits with a thin tail of large ones, shows up cleanly in this ZIP: 94132 is almost all tail-free small work.

How These Numbers 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 San Francisco snapshot that backs our citywide reporting — the 94132 rows are filtered out of the metro population, not collected separately. This edition is cross-sectional: it reports the May 11 – June 9, 2026 window on its own terms and makes no comparison to prior periods, because the sealed history that would support a trend claim does not yet exist. Scope is residential permits only; commercial and sub-trade types are excluded at ingest.

The pipeline behind the slice:

1. Collect. Pull the residential permit feed from the San Francisco 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 — and drop commercial and sub-trade 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. Filter the sealed citywide snapshot to ZIP 94132 and aggregate counts, the median, and category mix over the May 11 – June 9, 2026 window — no interpolation, no modeling.

The same sealing discipline drives our permit prediction ledger, where predictions are committed to the record before outcomes can be observed. Sealing first and publishing second is the point: a reader can hold a ZIP-level figure to account because it was fixed at capture, not assembled afterward.

Put 94132 Permit Data to Work

A ZIP-level read like this earns its keep for the people who act on the same week it lands. A remodeling contractor uses it to decide whether 94132 is worth a door-knock cadence or a mailer drop. A cabinet or flooring supplier times outreach to the contained OTC Alterations jobs that just got authorized. An agent reads a wave of residential alteration permits as a pre-listing signal — owners investing in a property often sell within a window. A lender treats declared valuations as ground truth on where renovation money is actually going.

US Tech Automations turns these permit signals into automated workflows: watching the San Francisco feed for new 94132 permits as they appear, routing qualified records to the right territory, and drafting outreach grounded in sealed, verifiable data instead of scraped guesswork. The discipline is the product — the same content-addressed sealing that makes the numbers above auditable is what makes the alerts trustworthy when they reach a sales desk.

You can explore the underlying permit corpus at permits.ustechautomations.com, or see how we build permit-driven monitoring and lead-routing for real estate teams at our real-estate AI agents.

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