Freedom Eviction Risk: High , Watsonville

The score leans hardest on tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10. Cost burden runs 63% here against 48.5% across Santa Cruz County.

It sits 2.5 points above the Santa Cruz County average of 6.8. Annualized rent equals 43% of average household income of $56,071, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Food insecurity runs 36.9% against 17.8% nationally.

Running cool, supply constraint reads 1/10. Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 1.2/10. Housing insecurity runs 29.0% against 14.2% nationally.

That is riskier than roughly 96% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.1/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.8 points hotter.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the most pressured. Average gross rent is $1,991, close to the Watsonville average.

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.