It’s no secret that successive tech booms from the 90s dotcom bubble through to today’s AI frenzy have brought wave after wave of tech workers to San Francisco.

But once they’re here, where do these workers live?

The answer is everywhere – but nowhere more than in Potrero Hill, according to Census data from 2020 to 2024. 

Almost 37% of residents of the city’s Potrero Hill “analysis neighborhood” – which includes the Dogpatch – aged 21 to 74 work in tech or a field adjacent to it. The neighborhood sits along the Caltrain line and between Highway 280 and 101, meaning its residents can easily whisk themselves away to major tech job centers in places like Mountain View and Sunnyvale – or just to the offices of major employers like Salesforce and Anthropic in adjacent SoMa and Mission Bay. 

Our analysis used the Census’ count of “information workers,” along with people who work in professional, scientific and technical services as the closest approximation to people working in the tech industry. There are several definitions of what could constitute a tech worker, and the Census doesn’t designate any “tech” industry formally. 

Perhaps not unrelatedly, Potrero Hill is one of the only parts of the city that has seen a decrease in its average age and an influx of residents in their 20s over the last 10 years, according to a Chronicle analysis from March. It’s also one of the few places that has added a meaningful amount of housing over the last two decades. 

Following close behind in number of tech workers by this measure is Mission Bay, where OpenAI recently completed an expansion that tipped the company’s total San Francisco office space over 1 million square feet. Its tech worker share is about 36%. 

Visitacion Valley, the Excelsior, Bayview Hunters Point, the Tenderloin and Chinatown all have the lowest share of tech workers, at fewer than 10% each. 

Even so, the number of tech workers has risen strikingly citywide. In 2014, information, professional, scientific and technical service employees made up about 17% of residents aged 21 to 74. A decade later, that share grew to about 22%.

And that was before even the most recent developments in AI, like the launch of coding agents. 

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This article originally published at Where do tech workers live in San Francisco? This neighborhood tops the list.