Elmwood Eviction Risk: High , Berkeley
Tract 06001423601 · Alameda, CA · pop 2,738 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Tract 06001423601 sits in the Elmwood area of Berkeley eviction risk, CA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 8.5/10. What pushes it up most is tenant-organizing strength at 9.5/10.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Berkeley and the region
Centroid at 37.8589, -122.2587 · click any tract to drill in
Why Elmwood scores 8.5
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Elmwood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 42
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 35%Socioeconomic
- 12%Household composition
- 55%Racial/ethnic minority
- 74%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
- 33%Grade B
- 57%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 Elmwood. 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.
- 8.0%Housing insecurity
- 4.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 8.6%Food insecurity
- 7.7%SNAP enrollment
- 6.0%Transit barriers
- 4.2%No health insurance
- 16.3%Frequent mental distress
- 24.1%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Elmwood
25% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears. Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.1/10.
Well under the midpoint, court filing pressure reads 2.1/10. SNAP participation runs 7.7% against 15.2% nationally.
Adults with no health insurance runs 4.2% against 11.3% nationally. It sits 0.7 points above the Alameda County average of 7.8.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). 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. Nationally it ranks #5,413 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.7/10.
Rent consumes only 16% of average household income of $162,386, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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