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Poets Corner Eviction Risk: High , Berkeley

Tract 06001423100 · Alameda, CA · pop 4,275 · neighborhood within 0.0 mi

With a score of 9.9/10, tract 06001423100 in the Poets Corner area of Berkeley, CA reads high for landlord eviction risk. Population here is 4,275. Severe burden reaches 46%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Risk score

9.9

High

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 43% Stable renters 21% Owners 36%

Tract context

Occupied units2,048

Renter share64.1%

SVI overall0.86

Poverty rate17.1%

Median income$59,643

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across Berkeley and the region

Centroid at 37.8658, -122.2863 · click any tract to drill in

Why Poets Corner 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

17.1% poverty · this tract

4.3

Supply constraint

$2,123 rent vs county FMR

2.9

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 Poets Corner compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 86

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

56%Socioeconomic
82%Household composition
72%Racial/ethnic minority
98%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

0%Grade A
0%Grade B
0%Grade C
90%Grade D · redlined

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.

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.

12.8%Housing insecurity
7.9%Utility-shutoff threat
15.9%Food insecurity
16.6%SNAP enrollment
9.1%Transit barriers
6.7%No health insurance
17.2%Frequent mental distress
31.1%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Poets Corner

Cost burden runs 67% here against 45.5% across Alameda County. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10. Annualized rent equals 43% of average household income of $59,643, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

It sits 2.1 points above the Alameda County average of 7.8. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.1/10. On the softer side, court filing pressure reads 2.1/10.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 8.7/10.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

Average gross rent is $2,123, close to the Berkeley average. 64% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.

Frequently asked

About tract 06001423100

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06001423100?

Census tract 06001423100 in the Poets Corner 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.

What is the average rent in tract 06001423100?

Median gross rent is $2,123/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 67% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 06001423100?

17.1% of residents in tract 06001423100 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,275.

How socially vulnerable is tract 06001423100?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 86th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 56th, household 82th, minority 72th, housing 98th.

Is tract 06001423100 considered part of Poets Corner?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06001423100 fall within Poets Corner (neighborhood centroid within 0.0 miles, OSM data).

What share of households in tract 06001423100 struggle to pay rent?

About 12.8% 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. 7.9% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 06001423100 compare to Berkeley overall?

Tract 06001423100 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.

Was tract 06001423100 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 90% 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.

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