South Third Street Eviction Risk: Elevated , King City

The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1/10. This is renter territory: 79% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $49,885, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

On the softer side, court filing pressure reads 1.7/10. The poverty rate is 25%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Severe burden reaches 15%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 19.2% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Sitting well above the midpoint, local political climate reads 7.4/10.

Against Monterey County at 51.7%, 57% of renters here are cost-burdened. At $1,367 a month, rents run 11% under what the rest of King City commands.

That is riskier than roughly 89% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

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.