How long do bathroom remodel permits take in San Francisco's West of Twin Peaks neighborhood?

In the West of Twin Peaks neighborhood of San Francisco, of the 283 bathroom remodel permits filed from October 2025 through September 2026 that have been issued, half were issued within 1 day, down from 2 days a year earlier. Of the 224 permits filed from October 2023 through September 2024 that have reached final sign-off, half did so within 193 days of being issued, down from 224 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	283 issued	1	272 issued	2
Permit issued to final sign-off	October 2023 through September 2024	224 finished	193	238 finished	224

“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	4	0			0			0	too recent
2026-Q3	77	62	2	28	3			0	too recent
2026-Q2	85	77	2	31	24	82	119	0	too recent
2026-Q1	80	73	0	72	37	111	216	0	too recent
2025-Q4	76	71	5	126	31	130	285	0	too recent
2025-Q3	60	56	6	107	30	178	340	0	too recent
2025-Q2	83	77	3	95	49	218	374	0	too recent
2025-Q1	69	65	1	125	48	124	335	0	too recent
2024-Q4	80	74	2	138	56	174	362	0	too recent
2024-Q3	73	67	7	165	52	228	346	0	yes
2024-Q2	85	81	6	47	68	160	417	0	yes
2024-Q1	68	63	0	96	53	171	436	0	yes
2023-Q4	72	67	2	121	51	200	489	0	yes
2023-Q3	69	65	1	179	53	222	511	8	yes
2023-Q2	78	75	4	76	62	199	490	5	yes
2023-Q1	71	66	1	87	57	203	541	7	yes
2022-Q4	86	82	10	323	66	276	819	8	yes
2022-Q3	83	78	7	300	65	271	691	6	yes
2022-Q2	92	89	6	99	72	302	774	12	yes
2022-Q1	108	103	6	78	79	232	547	17	yes
2021-Q4	89	88	0	78	71	232	625	12	yes
2021-Q3	70	65	7	209	48	284	873	11	yes
2021-Q2	92	85	1	142	71	242	735	11	yes
2021-Q1	105	100	44	281	75	240	715	23	yes
2020-Q4	101	96	67	216	79	260	676	17	yes
2020-Q3	73	67	36	293	51	236	795	10	yes
2020-Q2	26	24	7	56	20	156	394	3	yes
2020-Q1	66	59	0	109	46	256	604	11	yes
2019-Q4	94	86	11	455	67	372	846	14	yes
2019-Q3	87	82	2	160	67	299	709	10	yes
2019-Q2	89	84	3	134	73	211	671	11	yes
2019-Q1	81	78	6	173	68	206	587	7	yes
2018-Q4	78	71	4	178	57	233	766	9	yes
2018-Q3	84	80	4	192	70	238	530	10	yes
2018-Q2	98	94	2	75	82	212	689	9	yes
2018-Q1	93	88	6	468	69	218	606	12	yes
2017-Q4	79	75	2	351	61	244	608	10	yes
2017-Q3	85	83	2	195	68	212	494	12	yes
2017-Q2	98	90	6	300	80	246	661	7	yes
2017-Q1	81	80	0	99	69	162	566	5	yes
2016-Q4	71	67	3	165	53	211	671	9	yes
2016-Q3	84	81	3	111	70	197	576	10	yes
2016-Q2	85	80	4	109	63	211	524	10	yes
2016-Q1	89	85	8	123	72	222	631	6	yes
2015-Q4	77	70	4	151	53	239	664	11	yes
2015-Q3	91	85	6	253	73	282	627	9	yes
2015-Q2	94	89	5	88	74	249	628	9	yes
2015-Q1	88	83	2	68	69	243	638	11	yes
2014-Q4	98	94	3	91	76	204	725	13	yes
2014-Q3	86	81	1	265	63	314	516	14	yes
2014-Q2	104	99	1	102	78	214	623	14	yes
2014-Q1	91	88	1	88	75	153	390	8	yes
2013-Q4	95	89	4	150	72	232	554	10	yes
2013-Q3	84	78	1	52	68	210	413	5	yes
2013-Q2	87	83	1	164	64	160	488	18	yes
2013-Q1	80	79	3	30	70	140	548	5	yes
2012-Q4	51	48	0	11	41	141	542	5	yes
2012-Q3	75	72	0	42	64	182	362	7	yes
2012-Q2	56	53	0	23	45	120	343	7	yes
2012-Q1	46	46	2	64	41	153	396	4	yes
2011-Q4	42	42	2	29	41	174	504	1	yes
2011-Q3	81	79	1	47	69	146	346	5	yes
2011-Q2	66	64	1	38	57	147	298	3	yes
2011-Q1	61	59	2	102	53	159	390	4	yes
2010-Q4	59	57	0	98	52	181	373	2	yes
2010-Q3	62	60	0	28	55	188	422	3	yes
2010-Q2	83	81	0	24	65	156	327	6	yes
2010-Q1	43	43	0	83	38	108	363	2	yes
2009-Q4	55	54	1	110	39	159	402	6	yes
2009-Q3	55	53	0	24	46	178	460	2	yes
2009-Q2	62	59	0	63	52	118	560	1	yes
2009-Q1	48	45	0	119	34	144	327	4	yes
2008-Q4	60	60	0	7	47	145	348	5	yes
2008-Q3	63	61	0	33	45	152	471	2	yes
2008-Q2	66	65	0	182	48	180	556	2	yes
2008-Q1	77	77	0	124	58	155	394	6	yes
2007-Q4	91	85	0	54	61	213	431	7	yes
2007-Q3	86	85	0	30	64	175	386	6	yes
2007-Q2	69	68	0	0	55	125	300	4	yes
2007-Q1	64	62	0	122	42	152	354	3	yes
2006-Q4	88	88	0	91	56	157	347	4	yes
2006-Q3	78	77	0	0	56	218	394	2	yes
2006-Q2	86	86	0	80	64	160	424	3	yes
2006-Q1	68	68	0	2	50	158	292	6	yes
2005-Q4	68	68	0	0	51	158	411	6	yes
2005-Q3	68	67	0	117	49	200	400	1	yes
2005-Q2	87	86	0	189	61	195	388	6	yes
2005-Q1	57	56	0	0	39	137	314	6	yes
2004-Q4	65	64	0	0	45	136	419	6	yes
2004-Q3	53	52	0	0	35	149	341	6	yes
2004-Q2	61	60	0	315	36	158	316	13	yes
2004-Q1	63	62	0	0	46	143	354	6	yes
2003-Q4	74	72	0	0	50	164	373	4	yes
2003-Q3	56	56	0	122	33	160	406	6	yes
2003-Q2	60	60	0	3	47	162	392	5	yes
2003-Q1	32	32	0	120	23	175	508	4	yes
2002-Q4	57	57	0	154	42	184	416	9	yes
2002-Q3	57	56	0	112	42	190	431	6	yes
2002-Q2	51	51	0	88	34	128	391	4	yes
2002-Q1	41	39	0	128	30	194	371	1	yes
2001-Q4	45	45	0	141	26	180	482	3	yes
2001-Q3	49	46	0	84	26	184	468	2	yes
2001-Q2	48	46	0	121	29	183	396	0	yes
2001-Q1	51	48	0	105	36	148	312	2	yes
2000-Q4	44	44	0	161	31	179	449	0	yes
2000-Q3	32	32	0	61	17	174	360	0	yes
2000-Q2	42	40	0	16	32	174	364	0	yes
2000-Q1	54	50	0	187	32	165	492	2	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

649 of the 7,728 bathroom 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 West of Twin Peaks neighborhood

Shown apart, with their own page here: bathroom remodel (7,728 filed, 5,671 finished; contractors); kitchen remodel (5,824 filed, 4,292 finished; contractors); stairs (3,019 filed, 2,134 finished; contractors); deck (2,250 filed, 1,536 finished; contractors); roof deck (178 filed, 103 finished; contractors); pergola or trellis (59 filed, 31 finished; contractors). Other types: 30,476 permits. All permits in San Francisco's West of Twin Peaks neighborhood

Nearby neighborhoods

Oceanview/Merced/Ingleside, Outer Mission, Twin Peaks; 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.