Saint Francis Wood Housing: Sizes, Ages, Assessments

As of 15 October 2026, assessed value per square foot in Saint Francis Wood is 2.9 times higher for 2020-to-2024 buyers than for 1987-to-1989 buyers, and same-size houses are assessed 75.4% apart. These are tax figures, not prices. They record when the owner bought, and recorded sales end in November 2024.

Saint Francis Wood housing at a glance, as of 15 October 2026.

Saint Francis Wood is a one-type neighborhood. Of its 612 residential parcels, 611 hold a house on their own lot and one is vacant land, as of 15 October 2026. A parcel is a lot on the county's list. It is not a home or a household, so this count describes lots. No parcel is a condominium or a multifamily building. RH1D, the city's zone for detached one-family houses, covers 99.7% of the single-family parcels.

The neighborhood association describes about 561 houses in a description with no date. That is lower than the 612, and the 51-parcel difference is not reconciled. This guide uses the 612.

Residential parcels in Saint Francis Wood by type, as of 15 October 2026 (n = 612 parcels).

The houses are tall ones. 87.4% have two or more stories and 12.6% have one (n = 609 houses). The median house has 3 bathrooms, 69.2% have three or more and 4.8% have just one (n = 608 houses).

Bedrooms are recorded on only 309 of the 612 parcels, 50.5%, so the next two figures describe those parcels and not every house. Four bedrooms is the most common count, and 66.7% of the parcels with a recorded count have four or more.

The median house has 2,786 square feet of living area on a median lot of 5,033 square feet, as of 15 October 2026 (n = 607 houses with a living area; n = 612 lots). That is a big house on a small lot. Houses between 2,500 and 3,999 square feet are 56.3% of the total, and houses of 4,000 square feet or more are 9.4%.

Lots are small. 71.1% are under 6,000 square feet. The median floor-area ratio is 0.51. That ratio is the living area divided by the lot area, so the living area of the typical house adds up to about half the area of its lot.

The median house was built in 1925, and 85.1% of houses were built before 1950, as of 15 October 2026 (n = 611 houses). Only 1.3% were built in 2000 or later. The data has no renovation record for any house. The build year tells you when a house went up. It does not tell you what condition the house is in, or what has been redone since.

That missing record matters for any count of houses that might be rebuilt. A rebuild screen flags a house when it meets conditions that point that way. Land is a high share of the assessed value, the building's assessed value is low, the house was built before the 1920s, and the house is small for its lot. A fifth condition, no sign of renovation, is met by every house, because none has a renovation record. On that standard score, 106 of 606 scored parcels come out Strong, which is 17.5%. That figure is a ceiling set by the missing record. It is not a count of houses likely to be rebuilt. Only 15 parcels meet three of the four conditions the data can measure.

The land carries more of it. The median land share of a house's assessed value is 60.0%, and land is assessed above the building on 76.4% of parcels, as of 15 October 2026 (n = 610 parcels). The county's split between land and building is its own allocation. 36.6% of parcels sit at a land share of exactly 70% or 60%, so read the split as the county's convention and not as an independent value of the land.

The median assessed value of a house is $1,742,182, which is $634 per square foot of living area (n = 611 and n = 606). These are tax figures, not market values. Under Proposition 13, an assessed value is a base-year figure set when ownership last changed, and it rises by no more than two percent a year after that. It is not what a house is worth, and it is not a price per square foot. The data carries no tax bills, so this guide cannot say what a house pays each year.

The assessed value follows the year the owner bought. Houses with the owner-occupied exemption have a median assessed value of $1,435,405, and houses without it have $2,517,682, which is 75.4% higher, as of 15 October 2026 (n = 367 and n = 244). The two groups are about the same size. These are tax figures, not prices, and recorded ownership changes in the data end on 7 November 2024.

The exemption marks an owner-occupied primary residence. A zero means none is recorded. 60.0% of parcels carry it (n = 612). It counts occupancy and not the form of ownership, and the group without it mixes recent buyers, owners who have not claimed it and homes lived in by someone other than the owner.

Median assessed value per square foot of living area in Saint Francis Wood, by the year the owner acquired the house, as of 15 October 2026.

The 2020-to-2024 figure is 2.9 times the 1987-to-1989 figure. The groups come from the recorded transfer date only, so a house with no recorded transfer sits in none of them, and no sale amount is used. A neighbor's assessed value records when they bought. The figure is set again when ownership changes.

The median owner has held a Saint Francis Wood house for 16.7 years, and 43.0% of houses were last acquired 20 years ago or more, as of 15 October 2026 (n = 461 houses with a recorded transfer). A share of 18.2% were acquired 30 years ago or more.

Every one of these figures runs short. Recorded ownership changes in the data end on 7 November 2024, which is 23.2 months before the as-of date, so each hold is understated by about that gap. The earliest recorded transfer is 4 March 1987, so a hold that began earlier shows as beginning then. 24.7% of parcels (n = 612) have no recorded transfer at all and are left out. The 10.0% of dated parcels acquired in the five years to the as-of date is low for the same reason. It does not mean that no one has bought since November 2024.

How long owners have held Saint Francis Wood houses, as of 15 October 2026 (n = 461 dated parcels).