Union Square Eviction Risk: High , San Francisco

On the high side, eviction-process difficulty reads 10/10. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 10/10.

This is renter territory: 88% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Average gross rent is $1,589, 36% below the San Francisco average. 26% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.

Annualized rent equals 37% of average household income of $51,964, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with. Cost burden runs 44% here against 37.3% across San Francisco County.

The poverty rate is 21%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. On the national scale it lands near the 100th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9.3/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the CA average is 7.5, so this tract runs 2.4 points hotter.

Of its three components the housing type and transport measure is the most pressured.

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