Del Mar Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated

The main counterweight is economic stress, at 1.1/10. The 5 tracts inside this boundary do not behave alike. Individual scores run 5.5 to 7.2, a 1.7-point gap wide enough that the area average misleads on any specific address.

15% are severely burdened, paying half their income or more in rent. That cohort has no absorption capacity for an unexpected bill, and it is where non-payment filings originate. Sitting well above the midpoint is eviction-process difficulty at 7.6/10. Food insecurity affects 5.2% of adults, 12.6 points below the national rate.

Rent consumes at least 30% of income for roughly one in three of renter households. SNAP participation is 4.5% of households versus 15.2% nationally.

Running hot is tenant-organizing strength at 7.4/10. The voucher gap is 10.0%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which shows up as churn rather than arrears. That places it #88 of 89 neighborhoods in San Diego.

The closest comparables inside the same city are Bel Etage Neighborhood and Poway Portals. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $180,282. 35% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Underwrite the address, not the area: with 1.7 points between its best and worst tract, the per-tract table below is the operative number. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.