Chinatown Eviction Risk: High , San Francisco

Average gross rent is $969, 61% below the San Francisco average. Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 10/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 10/10.

90% 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. Cost burden runs 50% here against 37.3% across San Francisco County.

23% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Set annual rent against average income of $35,507 and the ratio lands at 33%, above the conventional 30% ceiling.

The poverty rate is 30%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. SNAP participation runs 26.2% against 15.2% nationally.

Food insecurity runs 28.6% against 17.8% nationally. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for San Francisco. 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.

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.