Menlo Park Eviction Risk: Elevated

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.7/10. On the softer side, court filing pressure reads 1.4/10. Cost burden runs 50% here against 44.9% across San Mateo County.

Adults with no health insurance runs 3.9% against 11.3% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

At $3,501 a month, rents run 8% over what the rest of Menlo Park commands. On the national scale it lands near the 85th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Only 16% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Against average income of $250,001, annual rent is just 17%.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

It tracks the San Mateo County average of 7.0 closely.

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