City
Daly City
Daly City is a city record. City or town offices may handle local rules inside their limits, while county offices still handle records, taxes, courts, and many services.
Starting point
Confirm the address is inside local limits first.
If the address is inside Daly City, city or town offices may handle local permits, code, and services. If it is outside limits, county routing may be the better first stop.
A mailing city is not always the same as city government jurisdiction.
2025 population
101,261
Land area
7.65 sq mi
Water area
0 sq mi
Directory notes
Local layers to keep on the same page.
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A mailing address can use a nearby place name. If the address is outside limits, county offices may handle permits, code, and land-use routes.
County still matters.
San Mateo County can still matter for assessor, tax collector, recorder, court, public health, social service, and election records.
Some layers are separate.
Water, sewer, fire, school, utilities, coast, earthquake maps, wildfire zones, parks, and trails may point outside city hall.
County layer
County shown for Daly City
Practical notes
Office, map, permit, and paperwork notes for Daly City
Place note · Cars and driving · Reviewed July 5, 2026
Daly City street sweeping is really a parking-window check
Daly City's street sweeping rules depend on the posted block and time window, and citations can still happen after the sweeper has already passed.
Place note · Home and property · Reviewed July 4, 2026
Daly City bulky goods go through Republic Services
Daly City residents work with Republic Services for bulky goods collection, service starts and stops, billing questions, and some garbage pickup issues.
Place note · Home and property · Reviewed July 3, 2026
Daly City separates quick permits from jobs with plans
Daly City building pages separate eligible quick permits from permits involving plans, with online applications, invoices, records, inspections, and plan-review email steps.
Place note · History and culture · Reviewed July 2, 2026
Daly City's old library sits near the city's first chapter
The Daly City History Guild Museum uses the old John Daly Library near the dairy farm area where earthquake refugees helped the city take shape.
County layer · Cars and driving · Reviewed July 5, 2026
Free South City Shuttle links the hill, downtown, and transit
South San Francisco's free shuttle runs on weekdays and links local stops with SamTrans, BART, Caltrain, downtown, parks, stores, and civic destinations.
County layer · History and culture · Reviewed July 5, 2026
Redwood City keeps old civic buildings in daily downtown life
Redwood City's historic downtown includes the Historic San Mateo County Courthouse, Fox Theatre, Lathrop House, and Courthouse Square, where the old center still works as a public gathering place.
Almanac notes
Stories and local context near Daly City
Place note · History and culture
The Cow Palace gives Daly City a big Bay Area memory
The Cow Palace in Daly City began in 1941 and still carries a mix of rodeo, concert, sports, convention, and community history near the San Francisco line.
Place note · History and culture
Westlake shows Daly City's postwar growth story
Westlake helps show how Daly City grew after World War II, when former dunes and farm edges became a large planned neighborhood west of the older city.
Place note · Outdoors
Mussel Rock Park is scenic, but check Daly City conditions
Mussel Rock Park in Daly City is public coastal open space on a closed landfill area, with hiking, beach access, dog walking, fishing, hang-gliding, and ongoing coastal monitoring.
County layer · Outdoors
Coyote Point shows San Mateo's busy Bay edge
Coyote Point Recreation Area brings together Bay views, a marina, marsh habitat, a beach promenade, windsurfing, playgrounds, CuriOdyssey, picnic areas, and SFO planes overhead.
County layer · History and culture
South San Francisco's biotech story grew from an industrial city
South San Francisco is known as the birthplace of biotechnology, with Genentech's 1976 start helping shift an older industrial city into a major life-science center.
County layer · History and culture
Sign Hill turns South San Francisco's old slogan into a walk
South San Francisco's Sign Hill carries the famous 'The Industrial City' sign, but the hillside is also a 65-acre open space with rare plants and habitat.
County layer · History and culture
Atherton began as Fair Oaks, a quiet rail stop for estate country
Atherton's story starts with Fair Oaks, the San Francisco-to-San Jose rail line, large country estates, and Holbrook-Palmer Park's surviving estate buildings.
County layer · History and culture
Bay Meadows still explains a big piece of San Mateo
The former Bay Meadows racetrack site shows why part of San Mateo now mixes housing, offices, shops, parks, and Caltrain access in one busy rail-side area.