How long do bathroom remodel permits take in San Francisco's Inner Sunset neighborhood?

In the Inner Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco, of the 173 bathroom remodel permits filed from October 2025 through September 2026 that have been issued, half were issued within 0 days, the same as a year earlier. Of the 109 permits filed from October 2023 through September 2024 that have reached final sign-off, half did so within 215 days of being issued, down from 266 days the year before.

From the city’s permit records, by the quarter each permit was filed. Data as of 8 October 2026. How to cite this · How this is calculated

How long until a permit is issued, and until final sign-off?

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At a glance

Stage	Permits filed	Permits counted	Median days	Counted a year earlier	Median a year earlier
Filed to permit issued	October 2025 through September 2026	173 issued	0	142 issued	0
Permit issued to final sign-off	October 2023 through September 2024	109 finished	215	106 finished	266

“Counted” is the permits the median was taken over: those filed in the window that have been issued, or that have reached final sign-off. The first stage covers the last four complete quarters, since most permits are issued within the year. The second covers the last four quarters that ended two or more years ago, so that most of their permits have had time to finish. Citywide, the median was 0 days to issue and 169 days from issue to final over the same quarters.

Every quarter since 2000

Quarter filed	Filed	Issued	Median days to issue	Slowest 10%	Reached final	Median days issue to final	Slowest 10%	Never finaled	Settled
2026-Q4	2	0			0			0	too recent
2026-Q3	63	52	0	19	3			0	too recent
2026-Q2	45	40	2	87	12	68	137	0	too recent
2026-Q1	38	37	0	27	23	138	213	0	too recent
2025-Q4	48	44	0	28	28	118	260	0	too recent
2025-Q3	35	34	0	72	22	90	231	0	too recent
2025-Q2	31	31	0	62	24	160	322	0	too recent
2025-Q1	44	41	2	65	34	134	357	0	too recent
2024-Q4	38	36	0	41	27	165	582	0	too recent
2024-Q3	40	36	1	114	26	211	396	0	yes
2024-Q2	34	32	5	87	22	202	458	0	yes
2024-Q1	32	30	1	51	27	182	551	0	yes
2023-Q4	42	40	7	232	34	248	485	0	yes
2023-Q3	39	38	1	105	28	186	470	7	yes
2023-Q2	34	32	4	125	27	329	541	3	yes
2023-Q1	28	26	11	212	18	203	556	6	yes
2022-Q4	43	39	0	169	33	280	506	4	yes
2022-Q3	43	43	17	355	34	306	707	6	yes
2022-Q2	37	33	7	130	26	180	504	5	yes
2022-Q1	42	39	1	109	32	246	649	7	yes
2021-Q4	48	43	0	42	40	206	526	2	yes
2021-Q3	41	38	0	44	28	272	513	9	yes
2021-Q2	50	50	0	109	41	157	777	6	yes
2021-Q1	52	49	0	330	32	200	520	16	yes
2020-Q4	43	37	37	230	32	224	484	8	yes
2020-Q3	36	32	34	290	24	266	985	5	yes
2020-Q2	12	12	4	20	9	161	497	3	yes
2020-Q1	28	23	12	251	18	300	733	6	yes
2019-Q4	38	32	5	545	27	249	872	6	yes
2019-Q3	42	39	5	95	30	231	579	8	yes
2019-Q2	41	39	0	88	29	151	542	9	yes
2019-Q1	44	44	6	138	38	285	768	3	yes
2018-Q4	35	34	6	130	29	275	790	3	yes
2018-Q3	38	33	3	45	28	226	590	6	yes
2018-Q2	57	53	6	459	37	243	736	11	yes
2018-Q1	46	43	2	242	35	189	808	7	yes
2017-Q4	55	54	7	280	47	226	580	4	yes
2017-Q3	59	59	0	212	48	282	786	6	yes
2017-Q2	55	50	4	393	43	225	914	6	yes
2017-Q1	34	30	2	94	22	180	519	7	yes
2016-Q4	38	38	4	322	31	203	515	5	yes
2016-Q3	50	49	7	467	46	246	926	3	yes
2016-Q2	57	54	4	244	44	154	594	10	yes
2016-Q1	41	38	2	583	34	242	890	3	yes
2015-Q4	37	37	3	160	32	214	517	4	yes
2015-Q3	66	62	6	326	51	246	1,037	8	yes
2015-Q2	55	50	1	215	47	152	685	4	yes
2015-Q1	41	40	2	71	36	174	503	4	yes
2014-Q4	30	28	0	285	20	240	736	5	yes
2014-Q3	50	50	2	120	41	227	972	6	yes
2014-Q2	42	42	0	40	35	132	616	3	yes
2014-Q1	44	42	0	35	36	117	395	5	yes
2013-Q4	52	51	1	135	42	127	523	8	yes
2013-Q3	61	59	0	27	46	110	348	9	yes
2013-Q2	64	64	0	11	51	161	358	5	yes
2013-Q1	39	39	0	13	31	107	446	8	yes
2012-Q4	45	45	1	118	39	112	327	3	yes
2012-Q3	37	35	2	73	31	183	512	1	yes
2012-Q2	32	31	0	46	29	134	529	2	yes
2012-Q1	43	43	1	16	40	118	349	3	yes
2011-Q4	44	43	0	24	31	148	414	6	yes
2011-Q3	42	41	1	37	38	134	401	2	yes
2011-Q2	34	31	0	34	28	127	315	1	yes
2011-Q1	24	24	1	23	21	157	302	2	yes
2010-Q4	38	37	0	75	36	172	898	0	yes
2010-Q3	29	29	1	96	26	150	522	1	yes
2010-Q2	33	33	0	41	26	125	373	4	yes
2010-Q1	37	36	0	12	29	137	483	3	yes
2009-Q4	28	28	2	40	25	169	359	1	yes
2009-Q3	34	33	1	23	28	140	331	0	yes
2009-Q2	22	21	1	27	16	213	512	1	yes
2009-Q1	24	22	0	240	20	181	362	2	yes
2008-Q4	26	24	3	261	22	206	531	0	yes
2008-Q3	46	44	0	213	37	168	484	3	yes
2008-Q2	48	46	0	78	36	144	350	3	yes
2008-Q1	39	35	0	33	24	170	344	8	yes
2007-Q4	32	29	0	185	19	207	607	8	yes
2007-Q3	41	40	0	71	24	194	519	8	yes
2007-Q2	36	35	0	0	23	182	382	7	yes
2007-Q1	48	46	0	155	31	227	423	5	yes
2006-Q4	31	30	0	0	22	167	389	2	yes
2006-Q3	33	32	0	330	24	186	339	3	yes
2006-Q2	37	37	0	209	27	173	466	3	yes
2006-Q1	31	31	0	0	25	153	296	4	yes
2005-Q4	25	24	0	0	21	182	314	3	yes
2005-Q3	35	35	0	78	25	135	329	4	yes
2005-Q2	28	27	0	0	20	174	347	5	yes
2005-Q1	35	35	0	0	25	135	265	8	yes
2004-Q4	35	34	0	190	19	216	573	10	yes
2004-Q3	25	24	0	0	17	171	328	3	yes
2004-Q2	18	17	0	0	12	152	318	3	yes
2004-Q1	21	20	0	49	13	203	493	3	yes
2003-Q4	28	28	0	429	21	139	300	2	yes
2003-Q3	24	24	0	166	19	142	273	3	yes
2003-Q2	22	21	0	0	19	148	331	1	yes
2003-Q1	20	20	0	25	16	106	332	3	yes
2002-Q4	24	24	0	118	19	103	421	5	yes
2002-Q3	17	17	0	167	13	203	491	3	yes
2002-Q2	20	20	0	357	10	106	254	4	yes
2002-Q1	25	25	0	138	14	150	312	1	yes
2001-Q4	12	11	0	83	7	150	253	0	yes
2001-Q3	11	11	0	38	8	298	480	1	yes
2001-Q2	12	10	0	115	7	141	788	0	yes
2001-Q1	17	17	0	24	13	117	171	0	yes
2000-Q4	25	24	0	59	16	120	240	0	yes
2000-Q3	21	18	0	33	12	140	491	0	yes
2000-Q2	23	21	0	204	13	147	342	0	yes
2000-Q1	24	22	0	112	12	191	502	0	yes

A blank median means fewer than 5 permits behind it: issued permits for the first stage, and for the second, finished permits whose final is dated after their issue (a permit never issued has no span). “Slowest 10%” is the 90th percentile: one permit in ten took at least this long. Download the table as CSV or JSON; both carry the source, license and data date.

What the numbers leave out

407 of the 3,920 bathroom remodel permits filed since 2000 (10%) have no final sign-off 3 years after they were issued or, if never issued, filed. A median over finished permits understates the real wait: the permits that never finish are not in it. Inspection records are not yet included: “final sign-off” is the city’s own completion date on the permit.

Project types in San Francisco's Inner Sunset neighborhood

Shown apart, with their own page here: bathroom remodel (3,920 filed, 2,888 finished; contractors); kitchen remodel (3,224 filed, 2,313 finished; contractors); stairs (1,621 filed, 1,088 finished; contractors); deck (1,328 filed, 890 finished; contractors); roof deck (157 filed, 91 finished; contractors). Other types: 17,714 permits. All permits in San Francisco's Inner Sunset neighborhood

Nearby neighborhoods

Golden Gate Park, Twin Peaks, Haight Ashbury; all of San Francisco; every neighborhood compared.

How this is calculated

Approved means the city issued the permit: the permit’s issue date. The first stage counts days from the filing date to the issue date, over permits issued on or after they were filed. Final sign-off means the city’s own status for the permit is “complete”, with its completion date; this site does not yet read inspection records, so the inspection date is not a separate stage. The second stage counts days from the issue date to the completion date, over permits that have reached it.

Permits are grouped by the quarter they were filed. A quarter’s median counts only its permits that have finished the stage, so recent quarters look faster than they will end up: their slow permits have not finished yet. Quarters that ended two or more years ago are marked settled; the rest are shaded in the chart. The headline’s first stage uses the last four complete quarters; its second uses the last four settled quarters.

The median is the middle permit: half took less, half more. The slowest 10% is the 90th percentile. A median needs at least 5 permits behind it, or it is left out. A project type is shown apart within a neighborhood only when it has 30 or more finished permits there; the rest are “other types”.

Never finaled means no final sign-off three years after the permit was issued (or filed, if never issued), and not expired, cancelled, withdrawn, revoked, disapproved, denied or suspended (the site’s “expired or cancelled” outcome). About a quarter of permits citywide end this way; often the work was done and nobody called for the final inspection. These permits are in the counts and not in the medians.

A permit’s neighborhood is the Analysis Neighborhood the city writes on the permit record (the official set of 41). Permits with none are counted citywide only; the page says how many. “Nearby” neighborhoods are the three nearest by the center of their permits. The site reloads the city’s data every night; permits filed since 1 January 2000 are included. The placement of a permit, its dates and its status are the city’s; the grouping and the words are this site’s. How to read these records.