Lavender Heights Eviction Risk: High , Sacramento

86% of occupied units are rented, so comparables are plentiful and vacancy risk is low, but a mispriced renewal loses the tenant to a building nearby. Against the Sacramento County average of 7.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.2 points.

What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 8.5/10. Set annual rent against average income of $61,190 and the ratio lands at 34%, above the conventional 30% ceiling. On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 8.5/10.

Running hot, local political climate reads 8/10. The poverty rate is 23%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Against Sacramento County at 50.2%, 55% of renters here are cost-burdened. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Sacramento. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.

Nationally it ranks #3,082 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 7.8/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,725, close to the Sacramento average.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.