Western Hills Eviction Risk: Elevated , San Diego

The severe-burden share is 22%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8/10.

Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 8/10. Food insecurity runs 6.8% against 17.8% nationally.

Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.6% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. Average gross rent is $2,538, 10% above the San Diego average. On the national scale it lands near the 86th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.2/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 4%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.

52% of renter households spend at least 30% of income on rent. It tracks the San Diego County average of 7.6 closely. Annual rent works out to 20% of average household income of $153,807.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.