Hayes Valley, San Francisco

Hayes Valley
Neighborhood
Looking west along Hayes Street from Octavia Boulevard.
Hayes Valley Location within Central San Francisco
Coordinates: 37°46′23″N 122°25′42″W / 37.772994°N 122.428328°W / 37.772994; -122.428328
Country	United States
State	California
City-county	San Francisco
Government
• Supervisors	Jane Kim and London Breed
• Assemblymember	David Chiu (D)
• State senator	Scott Wiener (D)
• U. S. rep.	Nancy Pelosi (D)
Area
• Total	0.180 sq mi (0.47 km2)
• Land	0.180 sq mi (0.47 km2)
Population (2008)
• Total	5,672
• Density	31,476/sq mi (12,153/km2)
Time zone	Pacific (UTC-8)
• Summer (DST)	PDT (UTC-7)
ZIP codes	94102, 94117
Area codes	415/628

Hayes Valley is a neighborhood in the Western Addition district of San Francisco, California. It is located between the historical districts of Alamo Square and the Civic Center. Victorian, Queen Anne, and Edwardian townhouses are mixed with high-end boutiques, restaurants, and public housing complexes.

Although its boundaries are ill-defined, Hayes Valley is generally considered to be the area north and south of Hayes Street between Webster (near Alamo Square) and Franklin (near the Civic Center) Streets. Hayes Valley's commercial center comprises the section of Hayes Street running from approximately Laguna Street in the west to Franklin Street in the east, with extensions on perpendicular Gough and Laguna Streets.

As of April 2012, after changes to the district boundaries used by the Board of Supervisors, the Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association considers the neighborhood as a whole to be bound by Webster Street in the west, Van Ness Avenue in the east, Fulton Street in the north, and Hermann Street and Market Street in the south, with extensions as far west as Fillmore, between Haight Street and Hermann Street, as far north as McAllister Street, between Franklin Street and Van Ness Avenue, and as far south as Market Street, between Buchanan Street and Laguna Street. (This definition overlaps considerably with the Lower Haight.)

The San Francisco Association of Realtors considers the Hayes Valley to be extending from McAllister Street in the north, to Market Street and Duboce Avenue in the south, Franklin Street in the east, and Webster Street (north of Fell Street) and Divisadero Street (south of Fell Street) forming the western boundaries. (This definition includes the entire Lower Haight within Hayes Valley.)

Adjacent neighborhoods include the Lower Haight and small parts of the Duboce Triangle and SoMa in the south, Alamo Square in the west, Civic Center in the east, and the Fillmore District to the north.