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

In the Mission neighborhood of San Francisco, of the 171 bathroom remodel permits filed from October 2025 through September 2026 that have been issued, half were issued within 1 day, the same as a year earlier. Of the 108 permits filed from October 2023 through September 2024 that have reached final sign-off, half did so within 146 days of being issued, down from 192 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	171 issued	1	163 issued	1
Permit issued to final sign-off	October 2023 through September 2024	108 finished	146	126 finished	192

“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	1			0			0	too recent
2026-Q3	48	32	0	27	6	46	74	0	too recent
2026-Q2	53	48	0	47	18	90	129	0	too recent
2026-Q1	52	45	1	46	19	94	164	0	too recent
2025-Q4	53	46	2	96	32	114	286	0	too recent
2025-Q3	57	55	0	52	37	133	297	0	too recent
2025-Q2	47	45	1	176	26	130	344	0	too recent
2025-Q1	33	32	4	72	21	147	295	0	too recent
2024-Q4	35	31	0	39	25	136	304	0	too recent
2024-Q3	28	26	2	72	22	140	311	0	yes
2024-Q2	51	50	1	72	35	179	491	0	yes
2024-Q1	35	33	0	42	27	149	350	0	yes
2023-Q4	33	31	0	212	24	139	330	0	yes
2023-Q3	43	40	2	96	27	154	512	14	yes
2023-Q2	46	44	4	152	36	238	774	6	yes
2023-Q1	42	39	0	79	32	174	655	4	yes
2022-Q4	45	43	5	90	31	190	555	7	yes
2022-Q3	46	42	0	242	33	177	480	6	yes
2022-Q2	73	66	6	76	53	246	631	8	yes
2022-Q1	71	64	0	42	53	210	575	12	yes
2021-Q4	98	93	6	112	65	172	445	8	yes
2021-Q3	78	74	0	106	59	200	701	11	yes
2021-Q2	74	71	0	61	57	158	535	11	yes
2021-Q1	81	73	0	155	61	190	462	10	yes
2020-Q4	71	64	2	202	47	185	745	15	yes
2020-Q3	59	53	8	279	41	180	578	13	yes
2020-Q2	29	24	14	201	16	239	788	4	yes
2020-Q1	66	63	0	248	48	222	817	12	yes
2019-Q4	78	71	9	459	59	294	946	10	yes
2019-Q3	59	55	0	44	42	136	624	10	yes
2019-Q2	71	65	1	57	51	168	529	12	yes
2019-Q1	64	59	4	115	48	197	558	10	yes
2018-Q4	95	87	8	158	66	294	801	18	yes
2018-Q3	75	69	3	127	49	226	497	14	yes
2018-Q2	66	62	7	265	42	228	495	18	yes
2018-Q1	65	60	2	223	38	130	888	19	yes
2017-Q4	79	76	6	308	57	238	710	13	yes
2017-Q3	61	60	8	282	42	136	496	13	yes
2017-Q2	72	64	0	100	46	126	508	18	yes
2017-Q1	64	62	7	474	50	207	1,059	9	yes
2016-Q4	81	70	1	100	51	187	662	17	yes
2016-Q3	63	58	4	303	50	278	714	5	yes
2016-Q2	90	85	5	204	59	253	867	21	yes
2016-Q1	93	85	0	79	66	166	738	15	yes
2015-Q4	84	78	0	209	61	205	721	12	yes
2015-Q3	87	80	1	198	62	236	717	14	yes
2015-Q2	63	60	1	339	45	164	561	8	yes
2015-Q1	76	70	2	171	54	222	878	9	yes
2014-Q4	61	58	3	149	53	207	514	2	yes
2014-Q3	81	75	0	31	63	217	594	11	yes
2014-Q2	87	80	3	276	61	246	565	13	yes
2014-Q1	67	63	6	79	45	185	464	16	yes
2013-Q4	84	81	3	135	64	201	911	14	yes
2013-Q3	86	83	1	85	69	253	698	11	yes
2013-Q2	62	60	0	61	53	168	460	6	yes
2013-Q1	56	56	0	14	45	122	468	8	yes
2012-Q4	48	46	2	46	34	232	485	11	yes
2012-Q3	54	53	1	56	43	206	632	9	yes
2012-Q2	60	59	1	95	51	154	381	5	yes
2012-Q1	56	55	0	22	47	195	461	4	yes
2011-Q4	41	38	1	66	34	217	442	3	yes
2011-Q3	54	50	0	13	40	186	482	8	yes
2011-Q2	49	47	0	16	41	144	445	2	yes
2011-Q1	36	35	2	37	31	119	368	4	yes
2010-Q4	57	57	1	203	46	152	628	8	yes
2010-Q3	47	46	0	168	39	163	467	5	yes
2010-Q2	50	48	0	15	42	140	402	5	yes
2010-Q1	37	37	0	9	28	130	546	5	yes
2009-Q4	42	40	0	190	30	162	554	6	yes
2009-Q3	40	39	0	26	32	124	357	6	yes
2009-Q2	47	45	0	60	37	158	479	3	yes
2009-Q1	34	33	0	82	28	206	371	3	yes
2008-Q4	51	46	0	38	36	127	442	5	yes
2008-Q3	61	59	0	19	43	124	457	8	yes
2008-Q2	55	54	0	75	34	122	377	12	yes
2008-Q1	45	42	0	41	27	129	298	5	yes
2007-Q4	58	52	0	152	26	152	352	10	yes
2007-Q3	83	75	0	7	38	136	381	18	yes
2007-Q2	54	54	0	2	36	136	498	8	yes
2007-Q1	45	45	0	94	29	103	266	5	yes
2006-Q4	28	28	0	44	18	114	357	4	yes
2006-Q3	46	46	0	0	25	162	345	7	yes
2006-Q2	40	40	0	0	24	134	326	4	yes
2006-Q1	52	52	0	0	34	184	278	6	yes
2005-Q4	34	33	0	0	24	214	438	5	yes
2005-Q3	40	39	0	205	22	170	403	6	yes
2005-Q2	46	45	0	70	26	184	412	5	yes
2005-Q1	32	32	0	0	21	200	434	6	yes
2004-Q4	26	26	0	0	15	107	408	4	yes
2004-Q3	34	33	0	62	17	103	250	7	yes
2004-Q2	36	36	0	10	19	163	319	7	yes
2004-Q1	24	24	0	0	9	143	243	7	yes
2003-Q4	26	26	0	82	14	118	548	2	yes
2003-Q3	22	22	0	0	12	112	225	3	yes
2003-Q2	27	24	0	93	12	145	261	3	yes
2003-Q1	25	25	0	0	15	95	409	2	yes
2002-Q4	27	27	0	0	17	131	437	2	yes
2002-Q3	23	23	0	0	17	113	278	3	yes
2002-Q2	28	27	0	6	16	118	360	3	yes
2002-Q1	24	24	0	26	15	85	328	1	yes
2001-Q4	17	17	0	23	10	154	273	0	yes
2001-Q3	30	30	0	96	14	116	461	1	yes
2001-Q2	24	24	0	0	10	186	336	0	yes
2001-Q1	25	24	0	92	16	190	551	0	yes
2000-Q4	23	23	0	47	11	121	203	0	yes
2000-Q3	26	26	0	20	15	187	751	0	yes
2000-Q2	20	20	0	65	10	138	688	0	yes
2000-Q1	16	15	0	0	9	251	473	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

733 of the 5,544 bathroom remodel permits filed since 2000 (13%) 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 Mission neighborhood

Shown apart, with their own page here: bathroom remodel (5,544 filed, 3,781 finished; contractors); kitchen remodel (5,121 filed, 3,441 finished; contractors); stairs (3,714 filed, 2,590 finished; contractors); deck (1,135 filed, 786 finished; contractors); roof deck (332 filed, 202 finished; contractors). Other types: 41,115 permits. All permits in San Francisco's Mission neighborhood

Nearby neighborhoods

Castro/Upper Market, Noe Valley, Potrero Hill; 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.