Gourmet Ghetto Eviction Risk: High , Berkeley

Severe burden reaches 22%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Against Alameda County at 45.5%, around a third of renters here are cost-burdened. This is renter territory: 67% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.

Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.1/10. Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 2.1/10.

Food insecurity runs 7.6% against 17.8% nationally. It sits 1.1 points above the Alameda County average of 7.8. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.9% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). 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. On the national scale it lands near the 95th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.