Neighborhood · Ranked #1 of 84,120 nationally

Shelltown Eviction Risk: High , San Diego

Tract 06073003602 · San Diego, CA · pop 3,593 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi

Census tract 06073003602 covers part of the Shelltown area of San Diego, CA, and scores 9.9/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 3,593 residents. The main counterweight is supply constraint at 1/10.

Risk score

9.9

High

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 40% Stable renters 31% Owners 29%

Tract context

Occupied units840

Renter share70.6%

SVI overall0.95

Poverty rate16.8%

Median income$64,444

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across San Diego and the region

Centroid at 32.6929, -117.1074 · click any tract to drill in

Why Shelltown scores 9.9

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from San Diego

7.5

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

6.1

State political climate

California legislature & governorship

6.8

Economic stress

16.8% poverty · this tract

4.2

Supply constraint

$1,637 rent vs county FMR

1.0

Rent control risk

Inherited from San Diego

8.0

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

8.0

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from San Diego

7.0

Housing court bias

Inherited from San Diego

7.5

How Shelltown compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 95

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

92%Socioeconomic
88%Household composition
94%Racial/ethnic minority
86%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

0%Grade A
0%Grade B
0%Grade C
100%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.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Shelltown. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

26.6%Housing insecurity
12.1%Utility-shutoff threat
31.2%Food insecurity
27.8%SNAP enrollment
14.9%Transit barriers
19.7%No health insurance
18.9%Frequent mental distress
33.8%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Shelltown

Against the San Diego County average of 7.6, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.3 points. The severe-burden share is 22%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. At $1,637 a month, rents run 29% under what the rest of San Diego commands.

This is renter territory: 71% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 8/10. Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10.

Housing insecurity runs 26.6% against 14.2% nationally. Adults with no health insurance runs 19.7% against 11.3% nationally. Against San Diego County at 52.5%, 57% of renters here are cost-burdened.

This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") 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. That is riskier than roughly 100% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.6/10.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 06073003602

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06073003602?

Census tract 06073003602 in the Shelltown neighborhood scores 9.9/10 (High tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 06073003602?

Median gross rent is $1,637/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 57% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 06073003602?

16.8% of residents in tract 06073003602 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,593.

How socially vulnerable is tract 06073003602?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 95th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 92th, household 88th, minority 94th, housing 86th.

Is tract 06073003602 considered part of Shelltown?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06073003602 fall within Shelltown (neighborhood centroid within 0.3 miles, OSM data).

What share of households in tract 06073003602 struggle to pay rent?

About 26.6% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 12.1% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 06073003602 compare to San Diego overall?

Tract 06073003602 scores 9.9/10, higher than the parent city of San Diego at 8.6/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from San Diego eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Was tract 06073003602 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 100% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.

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