South of Market
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
- SoMa
Landmarks:
- Moscone Center
Living here
- Housing
- Lower housing cost. Median home $940K · renters pay $2,120/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 19 min by transit, weekday morning
- Getting to work
- Mixed. 25% drive · 34% transit · 32% walk or bike
- Households
- Mostly renters. 80% rent
- Tree canopy
- Under 5%. 1% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Detached 4% · Attached 3% · 2–19 units 17% · 20+ units 76%
- Built
- 1939 or earlier 16% · 1940–79 11% · 1980–99 14% · 2000 or later 59%
- Ages
- Under 15 7% · 15–24 8% · 25–44 46% · 45–64 23% · 65+ 16%
- Language at home
- English only 49% · Chinese 13% · Spanish 13%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
- 16% 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, South of Market. Tiers compare San Francisco's 38 residential Analysis Neighborhoods.