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Nob Hill
How Nob Hill 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 briefNob Hill has recorded 28,822 police incidents since 2018, representing 2.9% of the citywide total and 11% down against the prior three years. It has seen 9,301 building permits since 2016, accounting for 2.8% of the citywide total and 13% down against the prior three years. The neighborhood has had 592 eviction notices since 2016, 4.2% of the citywide total and broadly flat against the prior three years, along with 94,816 311 cases since 2016, 1.3% of the citywide total and 15% down against the prior three years.
Police incidents
since 2018 · 2.9% of the San Francisco total
Building permits
since 2016 · 2.8% of the San Francisco total
Eviction notices
since 2016 · 4.2% of the San Francisco total
311 cases
since 2016 · 1.3% 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 Nob Hill
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.