Walnut Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Walnut Creek

20% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Pulling hardest the other way is economic stress at 2.1/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10.

On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.5/10. At $2,321 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of Walnut Creek commands. Against the Contra Costa County average of 6.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 0.6 points.

On the national scale it lands near the 87th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 6.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 53% of renters.

Annual rent works out to 29% of average household income of $96,071.

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.