Contempo Eviction Risk: Moderate , Union City

The clearest offset is economic stress at 1.3/10. Running hot, local political climate reads 8.3/10. The severe-burden share is 20%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment.

Against Alameda County at 45.5%, 54% of renters here are cost-burdened. On the high side, regional political climate reads 8.1/10.

At $2,230 a month, rents run 18% under what the rest of Union City commands. On the national scale it lands near the 73rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Only 22% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. Social vulnerability reads 4.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.9 points cooler.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 5%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

Annual rent works out to 19% of average household income of $142,675.

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