Communications Hill Eviction Risk: High , San Jose

Average gross rent is $1,688, 37% below the San Jose average. 27% 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, eviction-process difficulty reads 9/10.

Well under the midpoint, supply constraint reads 1/10. Against the Santa Clara County average of 8.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.9 points. Against Santa Clara County at 43.5%, 51% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Nationally it ranks #1 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 8.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Annual rent works out to 25% of average household income of $80,938. 33% of occupied units are renter-occupied.

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