Oceanview, Merced & Ingleside
Neighborhood Intelligence

Oceanview, Merced & Ingleside (SF Planning's Oceanview/Merced/Ingleside Analysis Neighborhood, often shortened to the OMI) sits in southwestern San Francisco between Ocean and Holloway Avenues to the north, the Daly City line to the south, Junipero Serra Boulevard and 19th Avenue to the west, and Interstate 280 to the east. The district combines several vernacular neighborhoods: Ingleside along Ocean Avenue, Ingleside Heights, Merced Heights on the hill in its western half, and Oceanview around Broad and Randolph Streets. It is home to about 24,000 residents.

Housing is mostly detached and row single-family homes from the early and mid-twentieth century, with scattered two-unit buildings and small apartment buildings near transit. Zoning is dominated by RH-1 and RH-1(D) house districts, with some RH-2, RTO-C parcels along transit streets, small NC-1 and NC-S commercial pockets, and the Ocean Avenue Neighborhood Commercial Transit (NCT) district along part of Ocean Avenue. Public open space is zoned P. Community anchors include the Minnie & Lovie Ward Recreation Center, Brooks Park, the Ocean View Branch Library on Randolph Street, and Lick-Wilmerding High School on Ocean Avenue.