Kensington Eviction Risk: Elevated , San Diego
Tract 06073002002 · San Diego, CA · pop 2,485 · neighborhood within 0.7 mi
Tract 06073002002 sits in the Kensington area of San Diego eviction risk, CA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7.5/10. Against San Diego County at 52.5%, 36% of renters here are cost-burdened.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across San Diego and the region
Centroid at 32.7646, -117.0929 · click any tract to drill in
Why Kensington scores 7.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Kensington compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 8
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 6%Socioeconomic
- 3%Household composition
- 53%Racial/ethnic minority
- 39%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: A: Best
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade A meant wealthy, predominantly white neighborhoods favored for lending. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 83%Grade A
- 5%Grade B
- 0%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Kensington. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 8.5%Housing insecurity
- 4.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 8.1%Food insecurity
- 7.4%SNAP enrollment
- 5.4%Transit barriers
- 4.6%No health insurance
- 14.7%Frequent mental distress
- 21.5%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Kensington
The main counterweight 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. 11% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Food insecurity runs 8.1% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 7.4% against 15.2% nationally.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground A ("Best"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. That is riskier than roughly 88% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model.
Only 23% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. Social vulnerability reads 1.7/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.
Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $166,605, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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