Potrero Hill
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
- Dogpatch
Living here
- Housing
- Higher housing cost. Median home $1.5M · renters pay $3,500/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 34 min by transit, weekday morning
- Getting to work
- Mixed. 41% drive · 23% transit · 32% walk or bike
- Households
- A mix. 57% rent
- Tree canopy
- 5–10%. 8% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Detached 14% · Attached 9% · 2–19 units 32% · 20+ units 44%
- Built
- 1939 or earlier 29% · 1940–79 16% · 1980–99 15% · 2000 or later 41%
- Ages
- Under 15 13% · 15–24 8% · 25–44 50% · 45–64 20% · 65+ 9%
- Language at home
- English only 67% · Spanish 9% · Chinese 7%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, Potrero Hill. Tiers compare San Francisco's 38 residential Analysis Neighborhoods.