Union Square Eviction Risk: High , San Francisco

The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 10/10. Average gross rent is $1,038, 58% below the San Francisco average.

Annualized rent equals 51% of average household income of $24,284, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 10/10.

This is renter territory: 98% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 10/10.

The poverty rate is 39%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. The severe-burden share is 24%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Food insecurity runs 33.2% against 17.8% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 15.1% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Nationally it ranks #1 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.