How long do kitchen remodel permits take in San Francisco's Outer Richmond neighborhood?

In the Outer Richmond neighborhood of San Francisco, of the 192 kitchen remodel permits filed from October 2025 through September 2026 that have been issued, half were issued within 1 day, down from 3 days a year earlier. Of the 125 permits filed from October 2023 through September 2024 that have reached final sign-off, half did so within 213 days of being issued, down from 215 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	192 issued	1	170 issued	3
Permit issued to final sign-off	October 2023 through September 2024	125 finished	213	132 finished	215

“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 176 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	3	1			0			0	too recent
2026-Q3	55	39	0	26	1			0	too recent
2026-Q2	61	57	6	57	6	70	128	0	too recent
2026-Q1	44	43	1	89	18	112	191	0	too recent
2025-Q4	59	53	1	95	29	141	273	0	too recent
2025-Q3	49	42	4	150	25	175	292	0	too recent
2025-Q2	51	48	7	92	33	186	392	0	too recent
2025-Q1	50	49	1	94	36	139	346	0	too recent
2024-Q4	33	31	1	309	24	200	361	0	too recent
2024-Q3	33	32	0	42	26	201	371	0	yes
2024-Q2	54	50	2	80	39	237	517	0	yes
2024-Q1	49	47	0	68	36	200	401	0	yes
2023-Q4	35	31	11	303	24	226	446	0	yes
2023-Q3	44	39	2	68	31	200	358	7	yes
2023-Q2	40	40	2	310	32	206	688	5	yes
2023-Q1	42	40	0	69	31	201	497	7	yes
2022-Q4	54	47	1	94	38	276	572	8	yes
2022-Q3	41	37	0	88	32	152	539	4	yes
2022-Q2	43	38	2	179	34	246	555	5	yes
2022-Q1	48	48	0	74	41	209	456	5	yes
2021-Q4	39	39	11	291	30	194	480	6	yes
2021-Q3	45	43	3	125	38	198	603	6	yes
2021-Q2	47	44	0	95	35	313	838	9	yes
2021-Q1	60	57	0	240	46	262	718	6	yes
2020-Q4	67	58	41	246	44	328	718	12	yes
2020-Q3	41	40	0	87	32	245	624	6	yes
2020-Q2	16	16	6	59	14	236	331	1	yes
2020-Q1	43	38	4	422	28	230	937	11	yes
2019-Q4	56	50	4	97	36	257	591	16	yes
2019-Q3	53	51	0	29	47	182	517	6	yes
2019-Q2	56	49	1	259	36	240	558	11	yes
2019-Q1	62	60	4	82	52	233	579	7	yes
2018-Q4	68	65	0	99	55	212	580	9	yes
2018-Q3	43	41	1	53	35	220	645	3	yes
2018-Q2	64	59	0	316	52	164	501	5	yes
2018-Q1	56	52	0	62	47	208	583	2	yes
2017-Q4	54	52	4	244	46	268	586	4	yes
2017-Q3	49	48	0	195	44	166	690	2	yes
2017-Q2	58	56	0	94	49	161	426	4	yes
2017-Q1	48	46	0	52	38	143	590	5	yes
2016-Q4	47	45	0	195	36	261	682	7	yes
2016-Q3	56	51	0	498	37	205	508	9	yes
2016-Q2	56	54	0	50	44	168	513	3	yes
2016-Q1	59	55	0	62	44	164	536	10	yes
2015-Q4	55	55	0	51	44	282	673	7	yes
2015-Q3	50	49	1	26	44	230	794	2	yes
2015-Q2	57	50	2	227	38	170	555	10	yes
2015-Q1	60	56	0	30	50	140	413	3	yes
2014-Q4	51	48	0	78	42	134	334	2	yes
2014-Q3	56	53	0	192	48	162	526	4	yes
2014-Q2	59	56	0	37	44	161	362	6	yes
2014-Q1	43	43	0	19	37	146	481	2	yes
2013-Q4	57	56	0	56	45	225	508	6	yes
2013-Q3	51	51	0	32	45	204	550	3	yes
2013-Q2	36	36	0	35	32	222	654	4	yes
2013-Q1	51	49	0	56	38	112	672	5	yes
2012-Q4	32	31	0	29	26	126	466	4	yes
2012-Q3	51	51	0	38	44	115	348	5	yes
2012-Q2	46	45	0	29	39	127	363	3	yes
2012-Q1	31	30	0	10	28	108	215	2	yes
2011-Q4	33	33	0	93	28	153	323	4	yes
2011-Q3	39	38	0	165	34	91	379	3	yes
2011-Q2	29	29	0	102	23	139	374	5	yes
2011-Q1	30	28	0	4	23	134	318	3	yes
2010-Q4	24	24	0	10	20	188	837	2	yes
2010-Q3	39	38	0	8	33	107	224	2	yes
2010-Q2	34	34	0	12	27	133	310	6	yes
2010-Q1	33	32	0	9	26	96	325	3	yes
2009-Q4	45	40	0	188	29	155	591	7	yes
2009-Q3	29	28	0	9	23	129	178	4	yes
2009-Q2	43	43	0	7	36	119	308	6	yes
2009-Q1	26	26	0	7	17	177	756	5	yes
2008-Q4	30	28	0	2	22	124	280	3	yes
2008-Q3	51	51	0	1	39	159	286	4	yes
2008-Q2	53	52	0	7	37	148	328	8	yes
2008-Q1	53	48	0	6	31	126	322	8	yes
2007-Q4	49	48	0	49	36	165	399	5	yes
2007-Q3	44	42	0	7	32	130	383	4	yes
2007-Q2	41	41	0	0	30	130	275	3	yes
2007-Q1	27	27	0	2	20	174	312	2	yes
2006-Q4	36	35	0	0	26	129	354	1	yes
2006-Q3	38	38	0	0	26	108	227	4	yes
2006-Q2	40	40	0	0	28	152	343	6	yes
2006-Q1	33	33	0	0	22	120	308	2	yes
2005-Q4	40	40	0	0	33	143	280	0	yes
2005-Q3	49	48	0	0	34	135	293	2	yes
2005-Q2	39	39	0	0	27	155	356	0	yes
2005-Q1	41	41	0	0	32	165	354	0	yes
2004-Q4	35	34	0	41	25	193	374	0	yes
2004-Q3	36	34	0	0	25	103	284	2	yes
2004-Q2	31	31	0	0	23	136	337	0	yes
2004-Q1	37	37	0	0	27	119	245	0	yes
2003-Q4	18	18	0	0	11	108	212	1	yes
2003-Q3	42	42	0	0	32	153	268	2	yes
2003-Q2	44	43	0	0	32	146	315	1	yes
2003-Q1	28	27	0	151	25	104	364	0	yes
2002-Q4	20	19	0	0	15	144	283	1	yes
2002-Q3	24	24	0	0	18	136	242	2	yes
2002-Q2	23	22	0	0	13	149	241	2	yes
2002-Q1	29	28	0	18	22	170	224	0	yes
2001-Q4	20	20	0	0	16	180	366	0	yes
2001-Q3	27	27	0	0	17	144	302	0	yes
2001-Q2	20	20	0	0	12	188	404	0	yes
2001-Q1	18	18	0	9	9	93	289	0	yes
2000-Q4	25	24	0	0	12	85	138	1	yes
2000-Q3	18	18	0	10	9	123	1,997	0	yes
2000-Q2	30	28	0	39	13	181	302	1	yes
2000-Q1	26	26	0	154	13	132	432	1	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

385 of the 4,536 kitchen remodel permits filed since 2000 (8%) 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 Outer Richmond neighborhood

Shown apart, with their own page here: bathroom remodel (5,388 filed, 3,961 finished; contractors); kitchen remodel (4,536 filed, 3,308 finished; contractors); stairs (2,059 filed, 1,409 finished; contractors); deck (1,133 filed, 752 finished; contractors); roof deck (217 filed, 139 finished; contractors). Other types: 23,687 permits. All permits in San Francisco's Outer Richmond neighborhood

Nearby neighborhoods

Seacliff, Lincoln Park, Golden Gate Park; 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.