Novato Eviction Risk: Elevated

Running cool, court filing pressure reads 1.1/10. Severe burden reaches 24%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Housing insecurity runs 5.8% against 14.2% nationally. Adults with no health insurance runs 3.5% against 11.3% nationally.

At $2,813 a month, rents run 12% over what the rest of Novato commands. On the national scale it lands near the 85th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Only 18% 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 1.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the least pressured.

Poverty sits at 3%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 49% of renters.

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.