SoFA Eviction Risk: Elevated , San Jose
Tract 06085500902 · Santa Clara, CA · pop 4,613 · neighborhood within 0.4 mi
In the SoFA area of San Jose, census tract 06085500902 scores $1/10 for eviction risk. It lands near the 95th percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
73% of renter households here spend at least 30% of income on rent, a severe level, and 58% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,899 a month while the average household earns $40,167 a year, roughly 57% of income at the averages. About 100% of occupied units are renter-occupied, a renter-majority tract.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across San Jose and the region
Centroid at 37.3330, -121.8796 · click any tract to drill in
Why SoFA scores 7.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow SoFA compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 85
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 98%Socioeconomic
- 4%Household composition
- 86%Racial/ethnic minority
- 95%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. 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
- 100%Grade C
- 0%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.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within SoFA. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 23.7%Housing insecurity
- 13.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 35.5%Food insecurity
- 34.0%SNAP enrollment
- 23.2%Transit barriers
- 13.8%No health insurance
- 29.8%Frequent mental distress
- 40.6%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in SoFA
What moves this score most is economic stress at $1/10. That part is specific to this tract, computed from its own rent, income, and poverty figures. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from San Jose eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores well above the Santa Clara County average of 5.4 and above the California statewide average of 6.1. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
HOLC surveyors mapped this tract in the 1930s with a dominant grade of C ("Declining"), above the redlined D tier. The grading still shaped decades of lending and development in the surrounding area.
The tract is Asian and Hispanic or Latino and ranks around the 85th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. High vulnerability tends to track with higher eviction-filing rates when rents climb.
For a landlord, this is a tract where process discipline pays off. Clean paperwork and steady screening keep the elevated risk manageable.
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Highest-risk tracts in San Jose
Top eight tracts in San Jose ranked by composite eviction-risk score.