South of Market
Neighborhood Intelligence

South of Market (SoMa) stretches southwest from Market Street toward Townsend Street and Division Street, between roughly Third and Fourth Streets on the east and 11th Street on the west. The Analysis Neighborhood takes in Central SoMa around Moscone Center, the Sixth Street corridor, the SoMa Pilipinas cultural district, the south side of Mid-Market, and much of Western SoMa. Interstate 80 crosses the area on an elevated freeway, and the district mixes offices, tech campuses, nightlife, light industry, and residential buildings. About 25,795 residents live here in roughly 16,840 housing units.

Housing ranges from residential hotels and older walk-up flats on alleys such as Natoma, Minna, and Clementina Streets to high-rise and mid-rise apartment and condo buildings. SF Planning Code zoning is unusually varied: Central SoMa Mixed Use Office (CMUO), Downtown General and Downtown Support (C-3-G, C-3-S) near Market Street, Mixed Use-Residential (MUR) and Mixed Use-General (MUG), Service/Arts/Light Industrial (SALI), WSOMA Mixed Use (WMUG, WMUO), Urban Mixed Use (UMU), Residential Enclave (RED, RED-MX), Regional Commercial (RCD), and the SoMa and Folsom Street NCT districts. Institutions include Moscone Center, the Old Mint, the Hall of Justice, and Gene Friend Recreation Center.