33 Permits in 94134: San Francisco ZIP Report — June 2026

ZIP 94134 covers Visitacion Valley and the southeastern edge of San Francisco, and over the reporting window of May 11 – June 9, 2026 it logged a modest 33 residential building permits. That is a quiet corner of a busy city, and every figure on this page is a slice of the same sealed San Francisco snapshot we publish citywide — the ZIP-level cut, not a separate data source.

Scope is narrow on purpose: 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. What follows reads 94134 against its busier neighbors so contractors and suppliers can see where it sits.

Where 94134 Lands Among San Francisco ZIPs

The fastest way to understand a single ZIP is to put it next to the others, so we lead with the comparison. Against the most active residential ZIPs in the city, 94134 is small: its 33 permits trail the leaders by a wide margin. The table below ranks the top ZIPs in our San Francisco slice by permit volume, with 94134 shown for contrast.

In the May 11 – June 9, 2026 window, 94134 recorded 33 residential permits against a total valuation of $0.7M — the lightest line on this board.

Read the gap, not just the rank. The Sunset ZIPs (94122 and 94116) and the Mission (94110) each clear the count in 94134 several times over. A ZIP like 94134 with low volume and low total valuation is doing exactly what its housing stock implies: smaller, owner-driven jobs rather than a steady stream of high-value gut renovations.

Why 94134 Reads Light

A building permit is the city's formal sign-off that a specific construction or alteration job may proceed under code. Count those permits in one ZIP over thirty days and you get a clean, public proxy for who is building there — no surveys, no estimates. In 94134 that proxy reads quiet. According to the sealed permit snapshots, the neighborhood produced a small batch of mostly routine residential work over the window.

Visitacion Valley is largely single-family and modest multi-family housing, much of it owner-occupied for the long term. That profile tends to generate steady maintenance and improvement work rather than the speculative, high-ticket remodels that light up wealthier ZIPs. The valuation total reflects it.

Key Findings

• 94134 recorded 33 residential permits in the window, per the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection via data.sfgov.org (Socrata).

• Total residential valuation in 94134 came to $0.7M, the lowest of the San Francisco ZIPs we track.

• The median permit valuation in 94134 was $14,500, pointing to small, routine jobs.

• OTC Alterations led the ZIP with 33 permits, the full residential count for the window.

• Citywide, San Francisco logged 952 residential permits over the same window, per the sealed snapshot.

The line that ties it together: a low total paired with a low median means many small jobs and almost no large outliers — a neighborhood of homeowners fixing and improving what they already own.

ZIP 94134 Permit Activity, May 11 – June 9, 2026

Here is the headline read for the ZIP on its own terms. Every number is drawn from the same sealed San Francisco snapshot, filtered to 94134.

A median of $14,500 is the number to sit with. Half the permits in 94134 came in below it. That is squarely in the range of a bathroom redo, a kitchen refresh, electrical or plumbing upgrades, a deck, or a code-driven repair — not a six-figure structural overhaul. When the median sits that low and the total stays at $0.7M, the distribution is flat: lots of small, similar jobs and no single project pulling the average up.

What Is Getting Built in 94134

Every residential permit in 94134 this window fell under one category in the source data: otc alterations permit, which we label OTC Alterations. With 33 permits, it is the whole story for the ZIP.

OTC Alterations accounted for 33 of the residential permits in 94134 over the window — the entire residential count.

"OTC" is over-the-counter: in San Francisco's Department of Building Inspection workflow, these are alteration permits that can be issued the same day, across the counter, without a full plan-check cycle. They cover the routine interior and minor exterior work that does not change a building's footprint or use — re-doing a kitchen or bath, swapping windows, replacing a water heater, electrical or plumbing work, dry rot and similar repairs. A homeowner or their contractor pulls one when the job is real construction but not a structural redesign.

That the category is the entire residential count tells you who is working in 94134: small general contractors, specialty trades, and owner-builders handling maintenance-grade jobs. There is no wave of ground-up building or major additions in the window. For a supplier, that means demand here skews toward fixtures, finishes, and replacement materials — the inputs of an alteration, not a new structure. For a contractor scouting territory, 94134 is a steady-repeat market rather than a high-ticket one.

It also tells you what is absent. When a ZIP shows additions or new construction, you expect a wider spread of valuations and a few large outliers. 94134 has neither. The work is uniform enough that a single category absorbs all 33 permits, which is rare even among the smaller San Francisco ZIPs. That uniformity is itself a signal: this is a settled neighborhood, not one mid-transition. Plans here are about keeping homes livable and current rather than reshaping them, and the trades that win the work are the ones already trusted on the block.

For anyone deciding whether to invest marketing effort in 94134, the read is plain. The volume is low, so a broad campaign would be inefficient, but the work is consistent and repeatable. A specialty trade that does clean OTC-grade jobs — electrical, plumbing, window replacement — can build a referral base here over time without competing against large remodel firms, because those firms are concentrated in higher-dollar ZIPs like 94118 and 94114.

How 94134 Compares in San Francisco

Set the ZIP against the city total and its busier siblings to size the share of work it represents. The metro headline row uses the citywide San Francisco numbers from the same snapshot.

Two things stand out. First, 94134 is a small slice of a 952-permit city. Second, valuation does not track volume one-for-one: 94118 books $9.7M on 63 permits while 94116 books $4.8M on 95 — high-value remodels versus high-volume routine work. By that lens 94134 sits at the routine, lower-dollar end on both axes.

The contrast with 94118 is the sharpest lesson on this page. Both are residential ZIPs, but 94118 turns 63 permits into $9.7M of declared value while 94134 turns 33 permits into $0.7M. That is two different markets: one driven by large, plan-checked remodels and additions, the other by same-day alterations. A contractor or supplier who treats every San Francisco ZIP the same will misread both. The valuation column, not the permit count, is what separates a high-ticket territory from a high-frequency one.

For a deeper city-wide read, see our San Francisco permit report for June 2026, which sets the metro context this ZIP sits inside.

To see how other corners of the city behave, compare neighboring ZIPs in the 94117 report and the 94132 report — both useful reference points for reading 94134.

Methodology

The source is the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection via data.sfgov.org (Socrata). The 94134 figures are a ZIP-level cut of the same sealed daily snapshots we aggregate for the citywide report — not a separate pull, just the rows that fall inside this ZIP.

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

Across the edition, San Francisco contributed 952 permits to a sealed snapshot covering 8 metros and 7,334 permits in total, with valuation coverage of 84% citywide. Filtering to one ZIP narrows that to 94134 only. The honesty caveat matters most at small scale: with 33 permits, a single large or missing job moves the read, so treat 94134 as a directional signal of routine activity rather than a precise market index. Our practice is the same every day:

1. Collect. Pull the day's residential permit records from the San Francisco Socrata endpoint.

2. Normalize. Map raw fields to a common schema and filter to single-family and small multi-family scope.

3. Seal. Content-hash the day's snapshot so the record is fixed and verifiable after the fact.

4. Aggregate. Roll the sealed days up across the reporting window and slice to the 94134 rows.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Is 33 permits all the construction happening in 94134?
A: No. The 33 figure counts only residential building permits — single-family and small multi-family. Commercial and sub-trade permits are excluded at ingest, so the true volume of all construction activity in 94134 is higher than this residential slice.

Q: Why does the median valuation in 94134 look so low?
A: The median permit valuation was $14,500, which means half the jobs came in below that. Paired with a $0.7M total, it signals many small, routine alteration jobs and no large structural projects — typical for an owner-occupied neighborhood like Visitacion Valley.

Q: What does an OTC Alterations permit actually cover?
A: OTC means over-the-counter — alteration permits San Francisco can issue the same day without full plan check. They cover interior remodels, window swaps, water-heater and electrical work, and repairs that do not change a building's footprint or use. All 33 of the ZIP's residential permits fell here.

Q: Who pulls these permits in 94134?
A: Mostly homeowners and the small general contractors and specialty trades they hire for maintenance-grade work. With the category concentrated in OTC Alterations, the work skews toward repair and improvement rather than ground-up building.

Q: How does 94134 compare to the rest of San Francisco?
A: It is light. The city logged 952 residential permits over the window; 94134 contributed 33 of them, the smallest slice among the ZIPs we track, against busier areas like 94122 with 99 permits.

Q: Why does 94118 show more valuation than 94134 on fewer permits?
A: Permit count and declared value measure different things. 94118 booked $9.7M on 63 permits, the mark of large plan-checked remodels, while 94134 booked $0.7M on 33 permits of same-day alteration work. A high count does not imply high spend, and the valuation column is what separates the two markets.

Q: Can I rely on a 33-permit window to plan around?
A: Treat it as directional, not exact. At small scale, one large or missing job moves the read, so use the 33-permit, $0.7M signal as evidence of routine, repeatable activity in 94134 rather than a precise forecast of the months ahead.

Put Permit Data to Work

A 33-permit ZIP like 94134 is not a place you canvass blindly — it is a place you monitor. Contractors qualify a neighborhood by its permit mix; suppliers time inventory to the kind of jobs being pulled; agents read alteration activity as a pre-listing signal; lenders read renovation demand. When the work is concentrated in OTC Alterations, the play is steady repeat business, not chasing big remodels.

That is the workflow US Tech Automations automates. We turn sealed permit snapshots like this one into monitoring that flags new filings in the ZIPs you care about, routes the relevant ones to the right rep, and drafts first-touch outreach — so a 33-permit month becomes 33 timed conversations instead of a spreadsheet nobody reads. The raw daily data sits behind our public permits service at permits.ustechautomations.com, and the same sealed discipline underpins our permit prediction ledger.

If you work San Francisco and want this running against your territory, US Tech Automations builds the agents that watch the permit feed and act on it — see how our real-estate automation turns permit signals into routed work.

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