Downtown North Eviction Risk: Elevated , Palo Alto

What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 8.8/10. Running cool, economic stress reads 1.2/10. Severe burden reaches 21%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 1.3/10. It sits 0.9 points below the Santa Clara County average of 8.0.

Adults with no health insurance runs 3.3% against 11.3% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 2.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

On the national scale it lands near the 85th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 5.1/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

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