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Bernal Heights

Neighborhood in San Francisco

Part of the city: Southeast

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About Southeast

Potrero Hill and Bernal Heights down to Bayview, the Excelsior and Visitacion Valley.

Names you’ll hear here

  • Bernal Heights

Landmarks:

  • Bernal Heights Park

Living here

Housing
Middle housing cost. Median home $1.5M · renters pay $2,820/moSurvey estimates for 2020–2024, not current prices, for the whole neighborhood. Rent is what renting households pay, utilities included, counting rent-controlled and subsidized homes, so it sits well below what a new lease costs. Use them to compare neighborhoods, not to budget.
To Montgomery St
30–45 min. About 31 min by transit, weekday morning
Getting to work
Mostly car. 62% drive · 18% transit · 16% walk or bike
Households
A mix. 38% rent
Tree canopy
10–20%. 14% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
Home types
Detached 43% · Attached 18% · 2–19 units 34% · 20+ units 4%
Built
1939 or earlier 61% · 1940–79 25% · 1980–99 8% · 2000 or later 5%
Ages
Under 15 16% · 15–24 8% · 25–44 31% · 45–64 31% · 65+ 15%
Language at home
English only 62% · Spanish 23% · Chinese 5%English only, or the language besides English that each person 5 or older speaks at home. For tracts the Census groups some languages: Hindi and Urdu are among “other Indo-European”.
Recent immigrants
6% born abroad, came to the US 2010 or laterShare of residents, from the 2020–2024 survey.

American Community Survey 2020–2024 and Muni, BART and Caltrain schedules, Bernal Heights. Tiers compare San Francisco's 38 residential Analysis Neighborhoods.

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