Housing in Tenderloin at a glance
- Population
- about 32,104
- Housing units
- about 21,511
- Median value, owner-occupied homes
- $617,000San Francisco: $1,394,500 (-57%)
- Median gross rent
- $1,250 a monthSan Francisco: $2,476 (-50%)
- Owner-occupied homes
- 3.2%San Francisco: 38.2%
- Homes built before 1980
- 78.2%
- Median year built
- 1939 or earlier
Tenderloin ranks last of San Francisco's ten sectors on three measures at once: median value ($617,000), rent ($1,250) and owner share (3.2%). Those figures sit 57%, 50% and 35 points below the city, respectively. Only 581 owner households live here against 17,558 renter households. The neighbours show how steep the drop is: South of Market is worth $939,000 at the median, Mission $1,341,000 and Financial District/South Beach $1,349,000, with rents of $2,120, $2,520 and $3,290. The sector lies north-east of the centre, and its older stock, with 78.2% of homes predating 1980 and a median construction year of 1939 or earlier, ranks sixth of ten, just above Mission's 74.3%. A population of 32,104 fills 21,511 housing units, and Mission, by contrast, has 28.5% owners. Owners reach 20.2% in South of Market and 30.5% in Financial District/South Beach.
Questions about Tenderloin
What is the median home value in Tenderloin, San Francisco?
$617,000 for owner-occupied homes, against $1,394,500 for San Francisco as a whole (Payotte estimate from Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year data for the census tracts within the official boundary). It is the owners' own estimate of their home's value, not a sale price.
What is the median rent in Tenderloin?
$1,250 a month in gross rent (rent plus utilities paid by the renter), against $2,476 in San Francisco (Payotte estimate from Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year data for the census tracts within the official boundary).
Do most people in Tenderloin own or rent?
Most rent: 3.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied, against 38.2% in San Francisco (Payotte estimate from Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year data for the census tracts within the official boundary).
Data and method
Data as of: American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates, U.S. Census Bureau (retrieved 2026-11-02).
Estimate from the 12 census tracts whose internal point lies within the official boundary: counts are summed, and each median is recomputed from the summed value, rent and year-built brackets (grouped median, linear interpolation). The gap with the city is measured with the same method on the whole city.
Tenderloin is one of the 10 most populous of 41 analysis neighborhoods of San Francisco: estimated population about 32,104 (Payotte estimate: Census ACS 2020-2024 populations of the census tracts whose internal point lies inside the boundary; boundaries from DataSF, Analysis Neighborhoods (City and County of San Francisco), consulted 2026-11-02).
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates, tables B01003, B25001, B25003, B25034, B25063, B25064, B25075, B25077; U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 Gazetteer files (census tract internal points). City figures: the same survey, published for San Francisco as a whole. Home values are owners' estimates, not sale prices.
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Five trades, one spot each
Payotte lists one professional per trade in Tenderloin. No one is listed yet: every spot is open.
- Real estate agentOpen spot
- Mortgage loan officerOpen spot
- Home inspectorOpen spot
- Real estate attorneyOpen spot
- AppraiserOpen spot
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