Elmwood Eviction Risk: High , Berkeley
Tract 06001423902 · Alameda, CA · pop 1,512 · neighborhood within 0.3 mi
Census tract 06001423902 covers part of the Elmwood area of Berkeley, CA, and scores 8.9/10 on landlord eviction risk. It is home to 1,512 residents. 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 37.8549, -122.2576 · click any tract to drill in
Why Elmwood scores 8.9
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Elmwood compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 36
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 27%Socioeconomic
- 9%Household composition
- 48%Racial/ethnic minority
- 81%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 52%Grade B
- 35%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.
- 7.9%Housing insecurity
- 4.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 8.5%Food insecurity
- 8.1%SNAP enrollment
- 5.9%Transit barriers
- 4.2%No health insurance
- 16.0%Frequent mental distress
- 24.7%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Elmwood
Severe burden reaches 26%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. This is renter territory: 71% of occupied units are tenant-occupied.
Running hot, regional political climate reads 8.1/10. Running cool, court filing pressure reads 2.1/10. It sits 1.1 points above the Alameda County average of 7.8.
Average gross rent is $2,506, 17% above the Berkeley average. Food insecurity runs 8.5% against 17.8% nationally. SNAP participation runs 8.1% against 15.2% nationally.
This ground was mapped B ("Still Desirable") 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 95th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.
CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 4.3/10. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.4 points hotter.
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.
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