San Luis Obispo Eviction Risk: High
Tract 06079011201 · San Luis Obispo, CA · pop 4,628 · 79% of tract blocks fall in San Luis Obispo
Census tract 06079011201 sits in San Luis Obispo, California eviction laws, and carries an eviction-risk score of 6.8/10. It lands near the 92nd percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
About 86% of renters carry a rent burden of 30% of income or higher, a severe level, and 64% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,917 a month while the average household earns $48,793 a year, roughly 47% of income at the averages. Renters make up 68% of occupied homes, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across San Luis Obispo and the region
Centroid at 35.3016, -120.6937 · click any tract to drill in
Why San Luis Obispo scores 8.6
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow San Luis Obispo compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 35
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 60%Socioeconomic
- 3%Household composition
- 46%Racial/ethnic minority
- 53%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
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Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 15.7%Housing insecurity
- 10.4%Utility-shutoff threat
- 23.2%Food insecurity
- 24.8%SNAP enrollment
- 14.5%Transit barriers
- 8.4%No health insurance
- 23.7%Frequent mental distress
- 35.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in San Luis Obispo
The heaviest input here is economic stress at $1/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from San Luis Obispo, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the San Luis Obispo County average of 5.4 and above the California statewide average of 6.1. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 35th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a relatively low-vulnerability reading.
In CDC survey modeling, about 15.7% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 10.4% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
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Highest-risk tracts in San Luis Obispo
Top eight tracts in San Luis Obispo ranked by composite eviction-risk score.