Castro/Upper Market
Neighborhood in San Francisco
Part of the city: Central
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About Central
The middle of the city: the Mission, the Castro, Noe Valley, the Haight and Twin Peaks.
Names you’ll hear here
- Dolores Heights
- Duboce Triangle
- Mission Dolores
Landmarks:
- Dolores Park
- Mission Dolores
Living here
- Housing
- Middle housing cost. Median home $1.7M · renters pay $2,880/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
- Under 30 min. About 22 min by transit, weekday morning
- Getting to work
- Mixed. 39% drive · 39% transit · 17% walk or bike
- Households
- A mix. 56% rent
- Tree canopy
- 10–20%. 15% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Detached 16% · Attached 7% · 2–19 units 66% · 20+ units 12%
- Built
- 1939 or earlier 58% · 1940–79 28% · 1980–99 6% · 2000 or later 8%
- Ages
- Under 15 8% · 15–24 5% · 25–44 40% · 45–64 32% · 65+ 15%
- Language at home
- English only 79% · Chinese 5% · Spanish 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, Castro/Upper Market. Tiers compare San Francisco's 38 residential Analysis Neighborhoods.