West of Twin Peaks
Neighborhood in San Francisco
Part of the city: West Side
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About West Side
The Richmond and the Sunset, either side of Golden Gate Park, out to Ocean Beach and Lake Merced.
Names you’ll hear here
- Forest Hill
- St. Francis Wood
Living here
- Housing
- Higher housing cost. Median home $1.8M · renters pay $3,360/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 35 min by transit, weekday morning
- Getting to work
- Mostly car. 69% drive · 22% transit · 6% walk or bike
- Households
- Mostly owners. 20% rent
- Tree canopy
- 20% or more. 22% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Detached 67% · Attached 21% · 2–19 units 8% · 20+ units 3%
- Built
- 1939 or earlier 52% · 1940–79 37% · 1980–99 6% · 2000 or later 5%
- Ages
- Under 15 16% · 15–24 7% · 25–44 25% · 45–64 29% · 65+ 24%
- Language at home
- English only 61% · Chinese 18% · Spanish 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
- 5% 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, West of Twin Peaks. Tiers compare San Francisco's 38 residential Analysis Neighborhoods.