Chinatown
Neighborhood in San Francisco
Part of the city: Downtown
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About Downtown
The Financial District, SoMa and the hills above them: Nob Hill, Russian Hill, North Beach and Chinatown, out to Mission Bay and Treasure Island.
Names you’ll hear here
- Jackson Square
Landmarks:
- Transamerica Pyramid
Living here
- Housing
- Lower housing cost. Median home $1.5M · renters pay $890/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 18 min by transit, weekday morning
- Getting to work
- Mostly transit, walk or bike. 17% drive · 38% transit · 42% walk or bike
- Households
- Mostly renters. 91% rent
- Tree canopy
- Under 5%. 1% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Detached 4% · Attached 2% · 2–19 units 43% · 20+ units 51%
- Built
- 1939 or earlier 58% · 1940–79 29% · 1980–99 7% · 2000 or later 6%
- Ages
- Under 15 6% · 15–24 11% · 25–44 21% · 45–64 28% · 65+ 35%
- Language at home
- Chinese 67% · English only 24%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
- 23% 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, Chinatown. Tiers compare San Francisco's 38 residential Analysis Neighborhoods.