SFCensus

San Francisco Housing Data by Neighborhood

San Francisco has 420,054 housing units, 63.3% of occupied homes are rented, and the median rent is $2,448. This site takes the Census Bureau's housing tables, rolls them up to the city's 38 official neighborhoods and 11 supervisor districts, and shows how each one compares. Zillow's market figures sit beside the Census numbers on every page: as of August 2026 the typical San Francisco home is worth $1,425,000 and the typical asking rent is $4,682.

Start with a neighborhood, rank every neighborhood on one housing metric, or read how the numbers are built on the methodology page.

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420,054Housing units$2,448Median rent$1,314,700Median home value11.5%Vacancy rate

Citywide figures above are the ACS 2024 1-year estimates. Neighborhood figures on this site are 2020-2024 5-year estimates, which are the only ones published at census-tract level.

Housing by neighborhood

Every neighborhood page covers tenure, rent, home values, vacancy, rent burden, overcrowding, building types, year built and how each figure has moved since 2010. Three quick rankings:

Highest median rent

  1. Mission Bay: $3,500 or more
  2. Potrero Hill: $3,500 or more
  3. Presidio: $3,500 or more
  4. West of Twin Peaks: $3,357
  5. Noe Valley: $3,313

All neighborhoods ranked by rent

Most renters

  1. Treasure Island: 100.0%
  2. Presidio: 99.3%
  3. Tenderloin: 96.8%
  4. Japantown: 91.3%
  5. Chinatown: 90.8%

All neighborhoods ranked by renter share

Highest vacancy rate

  1. Nob Hill: 23.0%
  2. North Beach: 19.0%
  3. Financial District/South Beach: 18.9%
  4. South of Market: 18.1%
  5. Russian Hill: 17.3%

All neighborhoods ranked by vacancy

Every housing metric

How San Francisco's rent and home values have moved

Citywide medians from the annual ACS, in nominal dollars and in 2024 dollars.

San Francisco median rent, 2005 to present$0$750$1,500$2,250$3,0002005200820112014201720212024● Median rent, nominal○ In 2024 dollarsSan Francisco median home value, 2005 to present$0$500,000$1.00M$1.50M$2.00M2005200820112014201720212024● Median home value, nominal○ In 2024 dollars

The full citywide picture, with every metric and its trend, is on the San Francisco housing overview.

Neighborhoods

Supervisor districts