Chinatown Eviction Risk: Elevated , Salinas

The severe-burden share is 29%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10.

This is renter territory: 65% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the softer side, court filing pressure reads 1.7/10.

Cost burden runs 46% here against 51.7% across Monterey County. Housing insecurity runs 22.4% against 14.2% nationally. SNAP participation runs 23.4% against 15.2% nationally.

At $1,728 a month, rents run 13% under what the rest of Salinas commands. On the national scale it lands near the 88th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. It tracks the Monterey County average of 7.2 closely.

Annual rent works out to 23% of average household income of $88,750.

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