San Francisco Housing by Year Built
45.2% of San Francisco's homes were built before 1940, and 8.0% have been built since 2010.
The survey asks when each building went up and groups the answers by decade. There is a ranking for every decade, one for homes built before 1940, and one for everything since 2010.
Year built rankings for all 38 neighborhoods
Each ranking lists every neighborhood against the citywide figure, which is the number shown on the card. Citywide trends for every measure are on the housing overview.
- Homes built before 1940Census, 2020-202445.2%
- Homes built in the 1940sCensus, 2020-20248.4%
- Homes built in the 1950sCensus, 2020-20247.7%
- Homes built in the 1960sCensus, 2020-20248.0%
- Homes built in the 1970sCensus, 2020-20247.2%
- Homes built in the 1980sCensus, 2020-20245.3%
- Homes built in the 1990sCensus, 2020-20243.9%
- Homes built in the 2000sCensus, 2020-20246.4%
- Homes built in the 2010sCensus, 2020-20246.9%
- Homes built in 2020 or laterCensus, 2020-20241.1%
- Homes built since 2010Census, 2020-20248.0%
San Francisco homes by decade built
Homes built before 1940 are the largest group by a wide margin, 45.2% of the city's housing. Each bar links to its ranking.
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