Kensington Eviction Risk: Elevated , San Diego

The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.7/10. Running hot, rent-regulation exposure reads 8/10. On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10.

Average gross rent is $2,780, 20% above the San Diego average. SNAP participation runs 5.0% against 15.2% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

This ground was mapped A ("Best") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for San Diego. 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 #10,727 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. At 20% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out.

Social vulnerability reads 2.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Rent consumes only 18% of average household income of $188,306, an unusually wide affordability cushion.

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.