Outer Mission
Neighborhood Intelligence

Outer Mission (SF Planning's Outer Mission Analysis Neighborhood) covers the southern end of the Mission Street corridor, running from Bosworth Street and Silver Avenue near Glen Park south to the Daly City line, with Mission Street and the Excelsior along its eastern edge and Oceanview, Merced & Ingleside to the west. It takes in the vernacular neighborhoods of Mission Terrace, Cayuga Terrace, the Balboa Park area around the BART station, and the Outer Mission blocks west of Mission Street near the county line. About 22,000 people live here.

The housing stock is largely early twentieth-century single-family homes on small lots, with flats and mixed-use buildings along Mission Street and Alemany Boulevard. RH-1 house zoning covers most residential blocks, with some RH-2 and RTO-C. Mission Street is zoned as the Excelsior Outer Mission Street Neighborhood Commercial District (NCD), with NCT-1, NCT-2, NC-1, and NC-S parcels at other commercial nodes, and P for public land including Balboa Park. Notable places include Balboa Park and its pool, Balboa High School, Cayuga Playground, and the Excelsior Branch Library on Mission Street.