Thornton Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 08001008524 · Adams County, CO · pop 9,338 · 99% of tract blocks fall in Thornton
08001008524 is a census tract in Thornton, CO. It scores 3.1/10 for landlords. It is home to 9,338 residents. Severe burden reaches 47%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Thornton and the region
Centroid at 39.9411, -104.9316 · click any tract to drill in
Why Thornton scores 3.1
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Thornton compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 18
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 22%Socioeconomic
- 22%Household composition
- 59%Racial/ethnic minority
- 17%Housing & transportation
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 51Total filings over 5 yrs
- 10.66%Avg annual filing rate
- 12.5%Peak (2006)
- 14Filings in 2017 (latest validated)
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
What drives eviction risk in Thornton
Against Adams County at 50.4%, 87% of renters here are cost-burdened. At $2,786 a month, rents run 47% over what the rest of Thornton commands. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10.
Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.9/10. The voucher gap is 30.2%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Against the Adams County average of 4.5, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.4 points.
On the high side, supply constraint reads 8/10. Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 51 filings here across 5 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2006 at 12.5% of renter households.
In a typical year about 10.7% of renter households face a filing. Nationally it ranks #65,414 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
At 4% renter-occupied this is predominantly owner territory, and comps have to be drawn from further out. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.6/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Statewide the CO average is 4.9, so this tract runs 1.8 points cooler.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
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Highest-risk tracts in Thornton
Top eight tracts in Thornton ranked by composite eviction-risk score.