College Terrace Eviction Risk: Elevated , Palo Alto

26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. On the high side, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.8/10.

At $2,466 a month, rents run 29% under what the rest of Palo Alto commands. Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 1.3/10. Food insecurity runs 6.4% against 17.8% nationally.

38% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Santa Clara County average of 43.5%. It sits 1.0 points below the Santa Clara County average of 8.0. Housing insecurity runs 6.1% against 14.2% nationally.

On the national scale it lands near the 85th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Only 21% 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. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 3.4/10.

Against average income of $250,001, annual rent is just 12%. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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