Chinatown Eviction Risk: High , San Francisco

At $788 a month, rents run 68% under what the rest of San Francisco commands. SNAP participation runs 43.1% against 15.2% nationally. Food insecurity runs 44.4% against 17.8% nationally.

On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 10/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 10/10. 95% 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.

Annualized rent equals 34% of average household income of $27,531, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The poverty rate is 29%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest.

Against San Francisco County at 37.3%, 43% of renters here are cost-burdened. In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). 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. On the national scale it lands near the 100th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 9.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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