Melrose Eviction Risk: High , Oakland

On the high side, local political climate reads 9.7/10. Average gross rent is $1,215, 39% below the Oakland average.

Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 9.5/10. SNAP participation runs 35.2% against 15.2% nationally.

Severe burden reaches 26%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. 58% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, markedly above the Alameda County average of 45.5%.

It sits 2.1 points above the Alameda County average of 7.8. Housing insecurity runs 28.8% against 14.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 22%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Oakland. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. On the national scale it lands near the 100th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Social vulnerability reads 9.9/10 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.