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

In the Sunset/Parkside neighborhood of San Francisco, of the 372 bathroom remodel permits filed from October 2025 through September 2026 that have been issued, half were issued within 4 days, the same as a year earlier. Of the 322 permits filed from October 2023 through September 2024 that have reached final sign-off, half did so within 194 days of being issued, down from 217 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	372 issued	4	376 issued	4
Permit issued to final sign-off	October 2023 through September 2024	322 finished	194	271 finished	217

“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	9	2			0			0	too recent
2026-Q3	115	75	1	29	5	41	71	0	too recent
2026-Q2	124	106	6	63	26	90	128	0	too recent
2026-Q1	101	92	0	60	46	86	180	0	too recent
2025-Q4	107	99	8	109	69	146	261	0	too recent
2025-Q3	104	98	4	124	65	182	317	0	too recent
2025-Q2	118	112	4	101	76	192	318	0	too recent
2025-Q1	87	84	0	69	64	158	370	0	too recent
2024-Q4	85	82	2	154	61	210	360	0	too recent
2024-Q3	113	108	3	89	91	202	416	0	yes
2024-Q2	99	98	5	95	82	206	475	0	yes
2024-Q1	89	88	2	57	80	180	467	0	yes
2023-Q4	83	79	2	64	69	175	634	1	yes
2023-Q3	98	90	2	65	81	232	705	11	yes
2023-Q2	83	80	2	168	65	194	553	10	yes
2023-Q1	60	52	1	115	42	228	538	10	yes
2022-Q4	111	96	7	237	83	219	525	9	yes
2022-Q3	101	96	4	110	81	213	548	11	yes
2022-Q2	121	117	7	137	105	181	701	8	yes
2022-Q1	113	102	4	534	82	219	598	10	yes
2021-Q4	123	113	5	274	97	282	550	17	yes
2021-Q3	117	116	1	63	102	246	683	10	yes
2021-Q2	118	108	1	129	89	218	583	18	yes
2021-Q1	123	110	0	159	98	295	695	13	yes
2020-Q4	123	110	60	265	97	262	595	15	yes
2020-Q3	101	93	20	345	77	193	611	12	yes
2020-Q2	22	21	14	108	19	182	810	1	yes
2020-Q1	70	58	4	229	50	222	536	7	yes
2019-Q4	126	112	12	432	94	267	705	17	yes
2019-Q3	115	113	6	160	92	245	663	16	yes
2019-Q2	104	99	1	121	84	226	707	14	yes
2019-Q1	124	118	12	218	105	217	637	12	yes
2018-Q4	130	118	6	116	106	200	649	15	yes
2018-Q3	104	100	4	266	85	225	832	10	yes
2018-Q2	99	92	6	202	81	204	509	10	yes
2018-Q1	127	115	4	198	98	200	585	11	yes
2017-Q4	120	115	5	172	93	205	669	19	yes
2017-Q3	128	125	8	361	109	192	525	12	yes
2017-Q2	128	118	4	151	96	186	521	16	yes
2017-Q1	107	103	4	97	88	176	472	10	yes
2016-Q4	107	99	6	190	84	164	422	13	yes
2016-Q3	139	132	2	177	111	175	426	19	yes
2016-Q2	134	123	7	219	106	186	448	14	yes
2016-Q1	129	122	3	125	106	160	384	12	yes
2015-Q4	122	118	8	140	105	190	511	7	yes
2015-Q3	124	121	3	194	101	209	541	14	yes
2015-Q2	108	106	2	232	91	196	481	10	yes
2015-Q1	119	116	6	248	91	228	629	18	yes
2014-Q4	123	119	3	302	93	183	609	24	yes
2014-Q3	121	117	3	48	96	185	518	18	yes
2014-Q2	127	124	2	131	111	152	439	10	yes
2014-Q1	86	83	3	93	72	158	455	8	yes
2013-Q4	105	100	3	184	84	147	384	13	yes
2013-Q3	135	129	2	28	110	162	366	15	yes
2013-Q2	113	106	1	50	85	160	584	13	yes
2013-Q1	87	84	0	26	70	138	356	10	yes
2012-Q4	101	99	1	28	84	162	401	12	yes
2012-Q3	103	101	1	25	86	148	372	15	yes
2012-Q2	91	87	2	75	75	147	406	9	yes
2012-Q1	73	72	0	39	58	154	393	7	yes
2011-Q4	85	81	0	101	68	142	467	11	yes
2011-Q3	89	85	1	26	78	140	336	6	yes
2011-Q2	80	77	1	31	70	129	349	4	yes
2011-Q1	88	83	1	64	73	146	358	6	yes
2010-Q4	66	66	0	30	60	142	372	3	yes
2010-Q3	79	77	1	25	73	155	330	1	yes
2010-Q2	81	79	1	22	66	151	383	7	yes
2010-Q1	66	62	1	127	55	148	374	6	yes
2009-Q4	81	78	0	15	66	129	396	10	yes
2009-Q3	88	88	0	18	78	148	338	2	yes
2009-Q2	89	85	1	14	67	138	301	13	yes
2009-Q1	73	71	0	22	63	137	289	6	yes
2008-Q4	84	82	0	46	69	128	295	3	yes
2008-Q3	116	116	0	26	94	144	345	14	yes
2008-Q2	120	114	0	7	101	143	358	10	yes
2008-Q1	100	97	0	6	81	126	264	9	yes
2007-Q4	115	111	0	19	91	168	341	11	yes
2007-Q3	138	134	0	3	101	157	363	21	yes
2007-Q2	100	97	0	0	79	148	400	11	yes
2007-Q1	107	106	0	0	86	167	316	11	yes
2006-Q4	85	83	0	0	61	153	352	15	yes
2006-Q3	105	103	0	0	90	141	370	6	yes
2006-Q2	99	99	0	80	81	157	356	11	yes
2006-Q1	97	97	0	0	83	136	349	10	yes
2005-Q4	93	93	0	0	70	154	296	16	yes
2005-Q3	96	95	0	3	67	159	361	16	yes
2005-Q2	107	106	0	0	86	154	350	11	yes
2005-Q1	54	53	0	0	40	160	294	7	yes
2004-Q4	75	74	0	0	61	120	333	7	yes
2004-Q3	89	87	0	0	69	141	330	7	yes
2004-Q2	96	95	0	0	69	133	420	14	yes
2004-Q1	78	77	0	0	64	154	407	9	yes
2003-Q4	94	93	0	113	75	151	341	8	yes
2003-Q3	92	91	0	1	66	166	258	14	yes
2003-Q2	71	71	0	31	58	126	282	9	yes
2003-Q1	74	73	0	14	60	118	270	8	yes
2002-Q4	88	83	0	178	59	133	308	12	yes
2002-Q3	89	88	0	0	63	123	372	10	yes
2002-Q2	74	73	0	21	58	128	235	7	yes
2002-Q1	60	59	0	49	51	112	274	1	yes
2001-Q4	84	84	0	38	66	100	210	0	yes
2001-Q3	74	72	0	25	50	128	231	0	yes
2001-Q2	61	60	0	12	48	130	268	0	yes
2001-Q1	73	72	0	19	62	109	280	0	yes
2000-Q4	56	52	0	81	40	144	358	0	yes
2000-Q3	57	55	0	42	43	104	252	0	yes
2000-Q2	58	57	0	47	43	131	354	0	yes
2000-Q1	51	48	0	49	34	156	505	3	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

952 of the 10,452 bathroom remodel permits filed since 2000 (9%) 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 Sunset/Parkside neighborhood

Shown apart, with their own page here: bathroom remodel (10,452 filed, 8,088 finished; contractors); kitchen remodel (7,313 filed, 5,521 finished; contractors); stairs (2,879 filed, 2,023 finished; contractors); deck (1,899 filed, 1,354 finished; contractors); roof deck (201 filed, 116 finished; contractors). Other types: 33,821 permits. All permits in San Francisco's Sunset/Parkside neighborhood

Nearby neighborhoods

Inner Sunset, Golden Gate Park, Lakeshore; 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.