Valley Hi / North Laguna Eviction Risk: High , Sacramento

Cost burden runs 70% here against 50.2% across Sacramento County. Against the Sacramento County average of 7.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.2 points.

What pushes it up most is rent-regulation exposure at 8.5/10. Annualized rent equals 36% of average household income of $59,864, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Sitting well above the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 8.5/10.

This is renter territory: 66% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. On the high side, local political climate reads 8/10. Housing insecurity runs 25.2% against 14.2% nationally.

The poverty rate is 20%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 14.4% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two.

On the national scale it lands near the 96th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 9.7/10.

Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 1.8 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.