Walnut Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Walnut Creek

Running hot, local political climate reads 7.5/10. Food insecurity runs 6.5% against 17.8% nationally. Against Contra Costa County at 48.7%, 42% of renters here are cost-burdened.

The severe-burden share is 13%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 7.5/10. Average gross rent is $2,295, 14% below the Walnut Creek average.

Against the Contra Costa County average of 6.8, this tract reads safer for landlords by 0.8 points. Adults with no health insurance runs 4.1% against 11.3% nationally.

On the national scale it lands near the 78th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 2.3/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $168,116, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.5 points cooler.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. 32% 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.