Home prices in San Francisco run 186% above the national median: $1,200,000 versus $420,000. Relative to the $130,000 median household income here, the price-to-income ratio comes out to 9.2x.
At a 0.65% effective rate, San Francisco property taxes add $650 to the monthly payment on the median home, $7,800 a year in total.
Unlike the nine no-income-tax states, California taxes wage income. Worth running your actual take-home pay against the $7,340/month payment here before locking in a target price.
Day-to-day expenses in San Francisco track at 194 against the national 100 baseline, above average once you look past the mortgage payment itself.
San Francisco's median home price runs 34% higher than nearby Los Angeles: $895,000 there versus $1,200,000 here.