Marina Green
Open lawn and a waterfront walk.
The Marina
Chestnut Street, the Green, and the Bay beyond.
Compare the Marina’s Chestnut Street cafés, waterfront blocks, and western streets near the Presidio. The neighborhood’s familiar stucco façades contain several different kinds of homes.
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Places / Everyday lifeLocal highlights
Crissy Field
Shoreline paths, beaches, and picnic places.
Chestnut Street
Chocolate, coffee, and the shopping street.
Homes & places to compare
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Houses, flats & period-revival detail
The Marina’s 1920s and 1930s building boom produced houses, flats, and apartment buildings. Mediterranean and Spanish-influenced façades are part of that history, with other revival styles and Art Deco examples too. Style describes the architecture; it does not establish structural condition or legal ownership.
Chestnut & Fillmore
The café and shopping corridor is the starting point here. Compare street-facing rooms, rear rooms, and homes above commercial space.
Marina Boulevard & the Green
The waterfront is the main reference point. Compare an open outlook with privacy, street crossings, wind, and the position of bedrooms.
Baker & the Palace of Fine Arts
Use the western end to compare routes toward the Presidio and Crissy Field with the walk back to Chestnut Street.
Marina Green
A waterfront landmark for orienting your search. Walk the actual route from a home to the Green, including the street crossings.
Marina Green informationCrissy Field
Nearby in the Presidio, the shoreline offers walking paths, beaches, and picnic areas. Check the particular entrance you would use.
Explore Crissy FieldChestnut Street · Dandelion Chocolate
At 2072 Chestnut, Dandelion’s café serves chocolate drinks, coffee, and pastries. Walk this stretch and the adjoining residential blocks at the hours you would use them.
Dandelion on ChestnutNeighborhood at a glance
2020–2024 American Community Survey
Marina analysis neighborhood
City-defined statistical area; its boundaries may differ from the Marina District boundaries used in home searches.
Estimates with approximate 90% margins of error shown below.
- Households
12,300
Occupied housing units, equivalent to households.
±619
- Owner-occupied homes
29%
Share of occupied housing units that are owner-occupied; the remainder are renter-occupied.
±3.1 percentage points
- Homes in single-unit buildings
15%
Share of all housing units in one-unit detached or attached structures. This describes the building, not its legal ownership form.
±2.6 percentage points
- Transit, walk or bike to work
22%
Share of workers age 16 and over whose usual commute was by public transit, walking or bicycle. The denominator includes people working from home and excludes people who were not workers.
±3.0 percentage points
Sources & how to read these figures
Five-year survey estimates, not a current headcount or a measure of homes for sale. Figures describe the geography named above. Margins shown are approximate 90% margins of error; small differences may not be meaningful.
San Francisco figures combine Census tracts assigned to the named city analysis areas. Marin uses the published county totals. Table links show the underlying geographies.
These estimates describe an area, not the people in a particular building or what a home is worth. They are not live market figures.
Photography & map notes
Maps are generated artistic illustrations informed by public geographic data, for general orientation rather than survey-accurate boundaries. Use the street-map link for location details. Sources: City of San Francisco, Marin County, U.S. Census Bureau and © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- Sailboats and cypress trees at the Marina Yacht Harbor. — King of Hearts, 2014-01-24. CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized for the web; cropped to fit the page layout. No generative alterations.
- Marina Green lawn and the Golden Gate Bridge. — David Jones, 2012-10-28. CC BY 2.0. Resized for the web; cropped to fit the page layout. No generative alterations.
- Crissy Field beach, cypress trees and the Golden Gate Bridge. — Emabarto01, 2024-09-12. CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized from the 4032 × 3024 original for the web; cropped to fit the page layout. No generative alterations.
- The commercial facade at 2228 Chestnut Street in the Marina. — Daderot, 2017-12-08. CC0. Resized for the web; cropped to fit the page layout. No generative alterations.
A closer look
Questions worth asking.
Does the neighborhood tell me a building’s structural condition?
No. An individual building needs its own review. Ask for inspections and available retrofit records, and have a qualified professional explain structural questions; a neighborhood label or a renovated interior is not a substitute.
What deserves attention in a Marina condo?
Review the unit and the shared building together. Look at the HOA’s finances, planned projects, meeting records, insurance, and responsibilities, along with the home’s light, layout, parking, and condition.
Where can I find building records?
Start with SF Planning’s Property Information Map, then compare the available records with the disclosure packet. An issued permit alone does not answer every question about the work or its current condition.
How do the Chestnut and waterfront blocks compare?
A home near Chestnut puts the café and shopping corridor into the comparison; a Marina Boulevard address puts the Green and Bay-facing outlook first. Farther west, include the route toward the Palace of Fine Arts and Presidio. Compare the specific rooms and walking routes, not a blanket claim that one pocket is quieter or more valuable.
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