San Mateo Eviction Risk: Moderate
Tract 06081607600 · San Mateo, CA · pop 3,978
Census tract 06081607600 sits in San Mateo in San Mateo County, California eviction laws, and carries an eviction-risk score of 5.3/10. It lands near the 51st percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
40% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a high level, and 17% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $2,660 a month while the average household earns $124,156 a year, roughly 26% of income at the averages. About 60% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across San Mateo and the region
Centroid at 37.5581, -122.3067 · click any tract to drill in
Why San Mateo scores 4.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow San Mateo compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 57
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 30%Socioeconomic
- 54%Household composition
- 73%Racial/ethnic minority
- 79%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 10.7%Housing insecurity
- 5.3%Utility-shutoff threat
- 13.0%Food insecurity
- 10.2%SNAP enrollment
- 6.9%Transit barriers
- 7.1%No health insurance
- 14.4%Frequent mental distress
- 23.3%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in San Mateo
What moves this score most is tenant organizing strength at 9.1/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from San Mateo, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores about the same as the San Mateo County average of 5.1 and below the California statewide average of 6.1. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
In CDC survey modeling, about 10.7% of adults here said they could not pay rent or mortgage at some point in the past year, and 5.3% faced a utility shutoff threat, a common early warning before a filing.
The tract is White and Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 57th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
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Highest-risk tracts in San Mateo
Top eight tracts in San Mateo ranked by composite eviction-risk score.