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Bernal Heights
How Bernal Heights has changed over the past decade, from the city's own records — each count set against San Francisco as a whole, and nothing scored.
The decade in briefBernal Heights has recorded 22,077 police incidents since 2018, representing 2.2% of the citywide total and 10% down against the prior three years. It has seen 10,844 building permits since 2016, accounting for 3.3% of the citywide total and broadly flat against the prior three years. The neighborhood has had 303 eviction notices since 2016, 2.1% of the citywide total and broadly flat against the prior three years, along with 104,496 311 cases since 2016, 1.5% of the citywide total and broadly flat against the prior three years.
Police incidents
since 2018 · 2.2% of the San Francisco total
Building permits
since 2016 · 3.3% of the San Francisco total
Eviction notices
since 2016 · 2.1% of the San Francisco total
311 cases
since 2016 · 1.5% of the San Francisco total
Reading this
- How to read a property record — what a comparison like “1.7× the city average” actually claims, and what it does not.
- Renting in San Francisco — whether a building is rent controlled, and the two protections people merge.
- Buying a home in San Francisco — the retrofit obligation, the tax bill, and the work nobody permitted.
- What the records will not tell you — the gaps, stated.
Every record on one address in Bernal Heights
A neighborhood is the backdrop. Scan the Block puts forty-eight sections on a single parcel — its permits, violations, zoning, hazards, the crime on its block, what it rents for — in one report you can forward.
Check any address here, free See plans & request accessFigures updated 2026-09-18. The comparison is to the whole city over the same window, not a ranking of neighborhoods against each other.