San Francisco, CA

ZIP code 94112 is assigned to San Francisco, CA, and falls within City and County of San Francisco County. Like every US postal code, it began as a mail-routing device rather than a geographic boundary — the US Postal Service groups delivery routes under a single code so carriers and sorting equipment can process mail efficiently. Today it also serves as a practical shorthand for the area itself: roughly 80,133 people live inside it.

At 24,028 residents per square mile spread over 3.335 square miles, 94112 reads as a dense urban area. It is one of the more heavily populated postal codes in the country, and density shapes almost everything else on this page — how people get to work, whether they own or rent, and what housing costs.

Household earnings here sit well above the national picture. The median household income of $130,906 places 94112 in the upper reaches of American postal codes, ahead of 94% of them. The US median for comparison is $70,109. Bear in mind that median income describes the midpoint household, not the average — it is not pulled upward by a handful of very high earners the way a mean would be.

Housing in 94112 costs far above the national median. A typical home is valued at $1,159,600 against a US median of $207,500, and median gross rent runs $2,326 a month. The split between owning and renting is fairly even at 67.4% owner-occupied, which tends to indicate a mix of housing types rather than one dominant form.

The building stock is dominated by detached single-family houses, which account for 81.8% of housing units here. The median construction year is 1940, making the housing here largely pre-war.

The population skews broadly in line with the national age profile, with a median age of 41.9 against 42 nationally. Households are relatively large at 3.44 people on average, with 74.5% classified as family households.

Getting to work takes 35.4 minutes on average one way. The dominant mode is drove alone at 40.9% of workers, while 25.1% take public transit, 17.3% work from home. Commute patterns are one of the better proxies for how a place actually functions day to day.

Beyond addressing mail, 94112 does a lot of quiet administrative work. Retailers use it to calculate shipping and sales tax at checkout. Insurers use it to set premiums, since risk profiles vary geographically. Employers and marketers use it to define service areas. Government agencies use it to route benefits and organise reporting. If you have ever been asked for a postal code by a form that clearly does not intend to send you anything, this is why.

For anyone weighing a move, 94112 offers a compact profile of San Francisco: 80,133 residents, a median household income of $130,906, 36.1% of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher, and an unemployment rate of 6.7%. A handful of figures like these answer more relocation questions than most neighbourhood guides do.

One caution worth repeating: a postal code is not a neighbourhood. 94112 may cover parts of several distinct areas, and a single neighbourhood in San Francisco may be split across more than one code. Boundaries also shift as USPS adjusts delivery routes. Treat the figures here as describing a delivery area, which is what they actually measure.