Palo Alto Eviction Risk: Elevated

Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.8/10. The severe-burden share is 23%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Running cool, court filing pressure reads 1.3/10. At $2,872 a month, rents run 18% under what the rest of Palo Alto commands. It sits 1.0 points below the Santa Clara County average of 8.0.

Adults with no health insurance runs 3.4% against 11.3% nationally. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 2.6% 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. Only 19% 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.

Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $221,923, an unusually wide affordability cushion. 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. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 41% of renters.

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.