Neighborhood · Ranked #1 of 84,120 nationally

Fruitdale Eviction Risk: High , San Jose

Tract 06085502103 · Santa Clara, CA · pop 4,261 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi

Tract 06085502103 sits in the Fruitdale area of San Jose eviction risk, CA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 9.9/10. Against Santa Clara County at 43.5%, 64% of renters here are cost-burdened.

Risk score

9.9

High

Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale

Household mix · 100 hh

Burdened renters 52% Stable renters 29% Owners 19%

Tract context

Occupied units1,658

Renter share80.8%

SVI overall0.77

Poverty rate19.9%

Median income$83,967

Percentile rank

Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.

Geographic context

Risk heat across San Jose and the region

Centroid at 37.3133, -121.9237 · click any tract to drill in

Why Fruitdale scores 9.9

9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendly

Local political climate

Inherited from San Jose

8.5

Regional political climate

2024 county presidential margin

7.4

State political climate

California legislature & governorship

6.8

Economic stress

19.9% poverty · this tract

5.0

Supply constraint

$2,159 rent vs county FMR

1.3

Rent control risk

Inherited from San Jose

9.5

Eviction process difficulty

State law sets the calendar

9.0

Tenant organizing strength

Inherited from San Jose

8.5

Housing court bias

Inherited from San Jose

8.5

How Fruitdale compares

Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.

CDC Social Vulnerability Index

SVI percentile: 77

CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.

69%Socioeconomic
54%Household composition
79%Racial/ethnic minority
81%Housing & transportation

Historical context · 1930s redlining

HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)

This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.

0%Grade A
0%Grade B
0%Grade C
6%Grade D · redlined

Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Comparable tracts

Census tracts with similar eviction risk

Within Fruitdale. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.

CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress

Eviction-adjacent indicators

Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.

19.0%Housing insecurity
9.2%Utility-shutoff threat
21.9%Food insecurity
18.5%SNAP enrollment
11.3%Transit barriers
13.8%No health insurance
18.3%Frequent mental distress
30.5%Any disability

Analysis

What drives eviction risk in Fruitdale

The severe-burden share is 37%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 9.5/10.

Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 9/10. This is renter territory: 81% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Against the Santa Clara County average of 8.0, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.9 points.

On the softer side, court filing pressure reads 1.3/10. Average gross rent is $2,159, 19% below the San Jose average. The poverty rate is 20%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground D ("Hazardous"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. Nationally it ranks #1 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. Social vulnerability reads 7.9/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

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.

Frequently asked

About tract 06085502103

What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 06085502103?

Census tract 06085502103 in the Fruitdale neighborhood scores 9.9/10 (High tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.

What is the average rent in tract 06085502103?

Median gross rent is $2,159/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 64% of renter households are cost-burdened.

What is the poverty rate in tract 06085502103?

19.9% of residents in tract 06085502103 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 4,261.

How socially vulnerable is tract 06085502103?

CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 77th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 69th, household 54th, minority 79th, housing 81th.

Is tract 06085502103 considered part of Fruitdale?

Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 06085502103 fall within Fruitdale (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).

What share of households in tract 06085502103 struggle to pay rent?

About 19.0% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 9.2% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.

How does tract 06085502103 compare to San Jose overall?

Tract 06085502103 scores 9.9/10, higher than the parent city of San Jose at 9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from San Jose eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.

Was tract 06085502103 historically redlined?

Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of D. 6% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.

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