Sunset & Parkside
Neighborhood Intelligence

Sunset & Parkside (SF Planning's Sunset/Parkside Analysis Neighborhood) covers the grid of numbered avenues between Lincoln Way on the north and Sloat Boulevard on the south, from 19th Avenue west to the Great Highway and Ocean Beach. It combines the Outer and Central Sunset, the Parkside district, and smaller enclaves such as Merced Manor and the Pine Lake Park area along Stern Grove. Commercial life is concentrated on Irving, Judah, Noriega, and Taraval Streets, served by the N Judah and L Taraval lines. It is one of the city's most populous Analysis Neighborhoods, with about 75,108 residents in roughly 28,989 housing units.

Housing is dominated by attached single-family row houses built in the 1920s through 1950s, with some two-unit buildings and small apartment buildings. SF Planning Code zoning is mostly RH-1, with RH-1(D) in Merced Manor and near Stern Grove and RH-2 on scattered blocks. Residential Transit Oriented (RTO-C) zoning now lines major corridors, and the Noriega, Taraval, Judah, and Irving Street NCDs plus NC-1, NC-2, and NC-S districts cover the shopping strips. Public land includes Stern Grove, Pine Lake Park, Sunset Reservoir, and the Ocean Beach shoreline.