Mission
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
- Inner Mission
Living here
- Housing
- Middle housing cost. Median home $1.3M · renters pay $2,520/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 25 min by transit, weekday morning
- Getting to work
- Mixed. 41% drive · 35% transit · 20% walk or bike
- Households
- Mostly renters. 72% rent
- Tree canopy
- Under 5%. 3% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Detached 8% · Attached 5% · 2–19 units 61% · 20+ units 25%
- Built
- 1939 or earlier 53% · 1940–79 20% · 1980–99 9% · 2000 or later 19%
- Ages
- Under 15 11% · 15–24 8% · 25–44 45% · 45–64 24% · 65+ 13%
- Language at home
- English only 56% · Spanish 27% · 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
- 10% 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, Mission. Tiers compare San Francisco's 38 residential Analysis Neighborhoods.