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Neighborhood · Ranked #1 of 84,120 nationally

Northside Eviction Risk: High , Berkeley

Tract 06001982100 · Alameda, CA · pop 923 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi

06001982100 is a census tract in the Northside area of Berkeley, CA. It scores 9.9/10 for landlords. It is home to 923 residents. The severe-burden share is 42%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Risk score
9.9
High
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 35% Stable renters 25% Owners 40%
Tract context
Occupied units40
Renter share60.0%
SVI overall0.12
Poverty rate47.4%

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.
Within neighborhood
0 th percentile
Rank, 0th percentileLowHigh
#2 of 2 tracts In Northside
Very Low
Within parent city
85 th percentile
Rank, 85th percentileLowHigh
#6 of 34 tracts In Berkeley
High
Within county
92 th percentile
Rank, 92nd percentileLowHigh
#32 of 378 tracts In Alameda
Very High
Within state
100 th percentile
Rank, 100th percentileLowHigh
#1 of 9,109 tracts In California
Very High
Geographic context

Risk heat across Berkeley and the region

Centroid at 37.8738, -122.2546 · click any tract to drill in

Why Northside scores 9.9

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly
Local political climate
Inherited from Berkeley
7.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
8.1
State political climate
California legislature & governorship
6.8
Economic stress
47.4% poverty · this tract
10.0
Supply constraint
$3,200 rent vs county FMR
6.9
Rent control risk
Inherited from Berkeley
7.7
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.1
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Berkeley
9.5
Housing court bias
Inherited from Berkeley
7.5

How Northside compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.
Northside risk score vs. parent city / county / stateThis tract: 9.99.9This tracttract 982100Berkeley: 8.68.6Berkeleyparent cityCounty: 7.87.8Countyavg tract in countyState: 7.57.5Stateavg tract in state
CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 12

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Northside. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Northside

The dominant input is economic stress at 10/10. Average gross rent is $3,200, 50% above the Berkeley average. The poverty rate is 47%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 9.5/10. 58% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Alameda County average of 45.5%. Against the Alameda County average of 7.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.1 points.

Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.1/10. The voucher gap is 19.3%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

That is riskier than roughly 100% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 2/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.

Frequently asked

About tract 06001982100

Q1

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06001982100?

Census tract 06001982100 in the Northside neighborhood scores 9.9/10 (High tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2

What is the average rent in tract 06001982100?

Median gross rent is $3,200/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 58% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3

What is the poverty rate in tract 06001982100?

47.4% of residents in tract 06001982100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 923.
Q4

How socially vulnerable is tract 06001982100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 12th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 46th, household 1th, minority 80th, housing 8th.
Q5

Is tract 06001982100 considered part of Northside?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06001982100 fall within Northside (neighborhood centroid within 0.4 miles, OSM data).
Q6

What share of households in tract 06001982100 struggle to pay rent?

About 15.4% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 8.6% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q7

How does tract 06001982100 compare to Berkeley overall?

Tract 06001982100 scores 9.9/10, higher than the parent city of Berkeley at 8.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Berkeley eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8

Was tract 06001982100 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of C. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
Sibling tracts

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Top eight tracts in Berkeley ranked by composite eviction-risk score.

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