Birdland Eviction Risk: Elevated , Sunnyvale

Against Santa Clara County at 43.5%, 29% of renters here are cost-burdened. This is renter territory: 77% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Running cool, court filing pressure reads 1.3/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.3/10. SNAP participation runs 6.8% against 15.2% nationally.

8% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 4.0% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

That is riskier than roughly 88% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 4.5/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. It tracks the Santa Clara County average of 8.0 closely.

Average gross rent is $2,998, close to the Santa Clara average. Annual rent works out to 21% of average household income of $172,679.

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.