Crescent Park Eviction Risk: Elevated

Running hot is tenant-organizing strength at 8.8/10. The severe-burden share is 17%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay. Cost burden runs 34% against 26.6% citywide, putting Crescent Park 6.9% over its own city.

2.5% of adults report being unable to pay a utility bill, below a 9.2% national figure. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. 2.6% of adults carry no health insurance against 11.3% nationally, a common route into sudden unpayable debt.

That places it #7 of 13 neighborhoods in Palo Alto. The closest comparables inside the same city are Old Palo Alto and Ventura. Rent takes 17% of average household income, comfortably inside the 30% line and unusually low for a rental sub-market.

Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually reflect a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Average gross rent runs $3,501, close to the Palo Alto average. 30% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

Because the boundary contains one tract, 6.9/10 is simultaneously the area figure and the address-level figure. Scores move when the ACS release, the court-record feed, or the statute ledger behind them moves.